I got the idea for a butterfly cake from this website. I make this cake as a cake donation for a cake walk at a local school. I started with two boxes of cake mix and two 6 inch round pans and one 9 inch round pan. After the cakes cooled I placed them onto … Read more
I made this butterfly cake for my little girl’s 1st birthday. I made the actual cake from a Wilton cake mold. I decorated the sides first and then outlined the body and wings. I filled in the remainder of the cake with stars. I made the frosting using the Wilton’s buttercream icing recipe on the … Read more
I made this cake for my daughters first birthday. This was my first attempt at “creative cake making” and this homemade butterfly cake was easy to make and turned out great. I used one round cake pan, cut the cake in half, put the round edges together and trimmed a triangle out of the straight … Read more
This Butterfly Birthday Cake is a double sponge cream and jam filled with green fondant on top. I used about 3kg of green. The butterfly was a round sponge cake cut then shaped for a butterfly with pink fondant covering it. I purchased ready made garden sets of butterflies, flowers, toadstools, bees, etc. from eBay.
I made this butterfly cake for my daughter’s 5th birthday, which falls on the first day of spring. We had visited this website a couple of weeks prior to her birthday, and she wanted a green butterfly like one she found here. I modified it a bit and came up with this one using 4 … Read more
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
