Thanks to this great website I had heaps of ideas for my little girl’s first birthday cake. I decided on a butterfly cake and purchased a butterfly shaped cooking tin from online. I then set about looking at all the icing ideas from this website and just loved one of them (thanks #17!!) so decided I would try to copy it.
The icing is butter icing and the cake is banana. I cannot believe how easy it was to pipe, I had never used a piping bag in this way before, but to be honest it was the easiest cake I have made so far and took hardly any time. The most annoying part was cleaning the icing bag in between colours! The recipe for the icing was 125g butter, 1 1/2 cups icing sugar, 2 tbsp milk. Whip butter until it is as white as possible, add half the icing sugar and the milk, blend, then the remainder of the icing sugar.
I doubled this mixture and still had quite a bit left over. I used licorice for the outline as I could not source black piping, but in the end this was much easier to use and manipulate. I flavored the icing with strawberry essence. I was really pleased the colours were as bright as they were as initially I wished to use pastel colours but I think this was more effective.
Give it a try, no one would believe I had made this myself and they are still talking about it. I will definitely use this technique again.
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What a thrill for us to see our Grand daughters cake. Anna made a lovely job of this cake and the comments on the day where accredited to her. We look forward to her next cake.
This is an awesome cake – just as a suggestion you can buy disposable icing bags for about $1.25(NZ) that you just chuck away with no mess… I have found that helpful when icing cakes for kids.
I really love your cake and was wondering what brand tin you used…I’ve been trying to find the same tin online but with no success.
Sorry, I have no idea the brand name, I got them on trade me (a NZ auction website). It came with a small and a large butterfly (this is the large one)