Butterfly Cakes

Butterfly Cake

Butterfly Cake Decorating

The top tier was really simple, just frosting and a small layer in the middle of raspberry filling I made. I used a really sturdy cake, so I didn't even need to dowel it.

I made the butterflies and monogram a few days in advance, to give them adequate time to dry. I printed off some butterfly pictures I found on the internet and laid a piece of wax paper on top of them. I made a batch of royal icing and separated it into several cups for coloring. (The black batch I made extra stiff, since it was for the outlining and I wanted it to hold it's shape extra well.) I traced the butterfly onto the wax paper, piping it using the black icing. I let it dry, then I piped in colors to fill it in. I let it set to dry thoroughly. (I brushed a dab of water before adding the edible glitter so it would stick well.)

When dry, I gently peeled it off the wax paper and assembled it on the cake!

Butterflies on a Tree Stump Cake

Flutterby Cake

This was too easy. just two cakes of any flavour baked in a love heart shaped tin, and cupcakes. icing was the ready made sort with food colouring added and decorations were edible gel decorating pens, silver cachous and bought hard icing decorations. It was as easy as that.

This is a good idea for satisfying both those who want cake and those who want cupcakes (the little kids!).

Birthday Butterflies

For the birthday butterflies cake, I made the butterflies from edible rice paper and are coloured with edible food colours and glazed with a thin layer of piping gel, then edible glitter. The bodies are black fondant.

Inside is a rich fruit cake, covered with a layer of marzipan then a layer of black fondant.

The flowers are orange fondant which I left to harden so they stayed flat when hanging off the top off the cake, I wanted a more 3D effect.

I hand made fondant beads instead of piping around the bottom, these give a more bold finish.

Butterfly Garden Cake

Colorful Butterfly Cake

To make this colorful butterfly cake, I first made a 9" round cake and then I cut the cake like a piece sign. And than Right half side I move to left it's like move the cake opposite direction. I know sounds really complicated.I used butter cream top of it and some m&m candy to decorating the cake.

The wings were covered in peach colored buttercream and then colored areas on the wings were added - green and pink on the top and white on the bottom. The m&m candies were just arranged in a pattern so the left side looked like a mirror image of the right side.

Buttercream Butterfly

I made this butterfly cake design for my daughters 2nd birthday I cut the butterfly out of a sheet sponge cake using a template I had drawn up and secured to the top of the cake using tooth picks so it didn't move whilst cutting it out I cut 2 exactly the same then i joined them together using jam in the middle you could use frosting or cream then i did a crumb coat using a pink buttercream frosting then i made another batch of frosting and tinted half purple and half pink and then place in a piping bag using a small star tip I piped the entire cake using pink for the body and wings and purple for the rest of the cake I them used sugar flowers to decorate and attached a sugar flower to florist wire using royal icing to use for the antennae I then used pink and purple edible cake glitter and sprinkled all over to make the butterfly sparkle.

Flitter Cake

I am enrolled in a Wilton decorating class and this is the first cake I created. I started with 2 9" white cakes and cut them in halves to make four layers. each was filled with almond/coconut buttercream frosting with the center layer mixed with a little rasberry jam. i used the icing tip to first apply the buttercream to the outside and then smoothed (took the longest time). I then used a cookie cutter to mark my butterflies and filled them in with the star tip. I used the 12 tip to add the dots and the star again to finish off the bottom. I used a 2 tip to add the antenas and the trails.

Butterfly and Fairy Cake

This butterfly fairy cake was made with 2 layers of vegan chocolate cake with light chocolate mousse filling. Decorated with pink whipped cream, white piping. The design on top is drawn in merckens chocolate (used in molds).

The chocolate plaques can be made in much the same way that you make a buttercream transfer. You photocopy a design and make a mirror image of it. Cover the design with plastic and you will pipe the design on top. Outline the picture in regular chocolate. When set, fill in the details, starting with the smallest details first and moving to the biggest areas. You can purchase chocolate candy melts in all different colors from craft and cake decorating supply stores. When the picture is done, let it set until firm in the refrigerator. Invert chocolate image on to the cake and remove the plastic.

Butterfly

Butterfly Cake Decorations

This is a Red Velvet cake with homemade buttercream frosting covered with butterfly cake decorations.
Stiff consistency orange icing was used for the border.

Chocolate was piped onto wax paper to make the butterflies and then frosting was used to adhere the butterflies to the cake.

If you pipe each side of the wings separately, you can set the two sides of the wings in between a piece of crumpled aluminum foil and align the wings so that that are bent (as though the butterfly is flying). Then pipe the body of the butterfly in chocolate and allow it to set. When you place the butterfly on the cake, the wings will be elevated from the surface of the cake.

Butterfly and Matleser

The butterfly and matleser cakes themselves were chocolate with mint buttercream. I smoothed over the cakes themselves with the buttercream before pouring over chocolate ganache that had been cooled down before hand (this is important as you dont want the buttercream to melt, put cake in freezer for added confidence).

The butterflies are fabric ones that I picked up from a craft shop. The spray of maltesers are actually styrofoam balls covered in chocolate with wire put through them (as the maltesers are too heavy).

A few of the maltersers are dusted with some edible lustre to make them stand out a bit.

Blue Butterfly Cake

Butterfly Flower Cake

Spring Butterfly Cupcakes

Butterfly and Flower Cake