I love making original cakes for my girls for their birthdays. Usually I make a replica of a beloved item such as a teddy bear, a doll or even their favorite blankies. This year I made a replica of my daughter’s butterfly shaped piñata. She loved it! For the body I baked cake in a … Read more
My sister adores butterflies and for her birthday asked if I could make her a purple butterfly. This is the Wiltons butterfly pan and for the icing colors I found the neon colors food dye and followed the directions on the box for the color mixtures. I also had an idea about “bug guts” so … Read more
I made this butterfly cake for my daughters 7th birthday. I made a round chocolate cake (her favourite) and cut the body and the wings from that one round piece. Adjusted their positions to form a butterfly. I made coloured Vienna Frosting (butter, icing sugar and milk, beaten until fluffy) and iced each section separately … Read more
I just saw your website tonight and was amazed at some of the talent out there in cake design and artistry. I made a homemade butterfly cake for my daughter for her 1st birthday. She told me she wanted a butterfly cake. I thought ‘where does a person get a butterfly cake?’ So I ventured … Read more
This 3rd Birthday Butterfly Fairy Cake is my very first “novelty” birthday cake I have done, it was for my eldest daughter’s 3rd birthday. I used a heart shaped cake tin, baked 3 hearts and split one heart in half to complete the bottom of the wings. I used a loaf pan for the butterfly … Read more
I made this butterfly cake for a very special little girl ‘Connie’ for her 5th birthday. I made the cake in a 14″ slab tin using a Madeira recipe. I enlarged the pattern then traced it onto baking paper to get the correct shape The icing is all buttercream and tinted in ‘Connies’ favorite colours … Read more
I made the butterfly cake using a 25cm round spring form pan. Iced it with purple butter icing and decorated it with small round colorful hard candy sweets and liquroo rope liquorice. From the round cake cut a thin crescent shape to form the body of the butterfly. From the remaining cake cut a big … Read more
This butterfly cake was two 10″ round cakes layered with butter cream frosting and raspberry filling. The butterflies, dragonflies and flowers on the cake and on the sticks are all sugar cookies decorated with butter cream frosting. The butterfly on the smash cake was made the same way. The butterflies on the side of the … Read more
My daughter wanted a cake with rainbows and butterflies. I wanted something a little more unique than just a cake shaped like a butterfly and I wanted it to be 3D. After searching around on the net for a rainbow and butterflies cake I found that I could color royal icing and make shapes out … Read more
This homemade butterfly birthday cake was for friends granddauthers 4th birthday. Two tiered white cake butter cream icing tinted yellow. 12 in round & 9in round. I made butterflies form fondant. I colored cut out with cookie cutters piped middles and dots on butterflies with royal icing (let dry a few days). Flowers were also … Read more
