For my daughter’s first birthday we went with a ladybug theme. I used a Wilton Ladybug cake pan. I used Wilton Buttercream homemade icing. I found the recipe in the Beginners Wilton Cake Decoration booklet. The cake was prepared by following the box directions two days before her party and frozen wrapped in foil. Confetti … Read more
I made these ladybeetle cupcakes for a friends welcome home. I made 15 chocolate cupcakes and 15 mini chocolate cupcakes. I iced the large ones with red icing and iced the little ones with a chocolate icing. I stuck the heads to the body with a bit of icing, put on brown m&ms, mini m&m’s … Read more
To make the ladybug cake we used two round cake pans approx 9in for the body and 5in for the head. We cut an oval section out of the head to fit to the body. For the frosting we used a basic buttercream recipe we found on the internet. To dye the red we used … Read more
I used bits and pieces of many ideas I found on the internet to come up with the caterpillar and lady bug portions of the cake. The ladybug cake shape was baked in a stoneware mixing bowl. Each section of the caterpillars body was baked in a small oven safe pinch bowl. The eyes are … Read more