My best friend Heather asked me to make her daughter Kaylynn a birthday cake to remember. She knew that I usually always make the birthday cakes for a few of my other friends’ children and I always, always make my son’s cakes. I never buy one that is pre-made from the store. It is more … Read more
I made this butterfly cake for a girl’s birthday party. The flavor was strawberry and color theme was pink. Baked two 9×13″ cakes with strawberry flavor, cut the sides to give the shape of butterfly. ( I drew the butterfly on a sheet of paper, cut it and then put it over the cake to get accurate shape). … Read more
This Barbie Mariposa cake was a very fun cake to create, we spent a lot of time laughing while trying over and over again to make Barbie’s “outfit” look just right. This cake started out as two simple chocolate 13 x 9 cakes. By shaping the first cake, tracing on paper and mirroring the cuts on the second cake … Read more
I made a butterfly cake for my daughter’s 6th birthday party which was a butterfly party. I received lots of inspiration from this website. Thank you! The photos and information are great. I used a Wilton’s butterfly cake pan that I bought at Michael’s. I found a great chocolate cake recipe on familyfun.com under the … Read more
This Butterfly Birthday Cake was easy and my little girl loved it for her 1st Birthday, but a butterfly could be for any occasion. This is an awesome starter cake. I had a problem, it was my little girl’s first birthday and she has an egg allergy. (I had contacted the bakeries and even the … Read more
I made this Butterfly birthday cake for my granddaughter’s 2nd birthday. I used candy melts to make the butterflies, first I drew a few butterflies on paper the size I needed, then I covered them with wax paper and used squeeze bottles to “draw” with the melts. I kept the wings separate from the bodies … Read more
My friend and I made this butterfly birthday cake for our daughters’ joint 3rd birthday party. We wanted to make a girly butterfly so we looked for ideas on the internet. Most of the designs we saw we thought would be too small for the number of children attending the party so we came up … Read more
Our daughter LOVES butterflies and daisies. We were not surprised when she wanted a Butterflies and Daisies Birthday Cake for her 6th birthday party. I had purchased pans to create the shapes of the cakes. I like to bake from scratch and not a box. The butterfly cake was cookies and cream. The daisy cake … Read more
Ice and decorate the butterfly cake to your desire. I used white fluffy icing, gel icing for outline of wing designs, the spray icing for all over color, skittles for the wings. For the antennas I used Twizzlers twisted rope. The children loved it.
I made this cake for one of my best friends little girl who was turning two; she really loves butterfly cakes. The pans I used were a bowling pin cake pan for the body. I cut the top off of the bowling pin, turned it upside-down, shaped it like a butterfly body and re-attached the … Read more
My daughter needed a cake that would be easy to take to school. I wanted cupcakes for the serving size but still wanted a cake and the butterfly cupcake idea was born. I laid out the template with empty liners so I knew how many cupcakes to make. After they cooled I set them out … Read more
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 … Read more