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
My nephew was having a bug theme for his first birthday. I created a homemade caterpillar cake for the main cake and a bumblebee cake for the smash cake (in another post). This was my first attempt at 3D cake, and I highly recommend it for its general ease and creative options. I used the … Read more
I used a small Pyrex bowl to make all the bumps of the Caterpillar Birthday Cake. The bowls held about 2 cups of cake batter. The head was a little bigger, I used the scraps I cut off from the others to mold and shape the head. I used 4 cups of buttercream icing, with … Read more
This Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake is the first cake I’ve ever made on request for someone other than friends or family. This baby Einstein caterpillar cake was made for 1 year old Cole. I made it with 3 different cake mixes (white, chocolate, strawberry) where each box of standard, buy at the grocery store, cake … Read more
I saw many Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cakes on this site but I decided to give it my own perfectionist twist for my son’s first birthday! This cake was made with 5 different cake mixes using the Wilton sports ball cake pan. Each ball was covered with fondant. I rubbed water on each ball to give … Read more
We decided to make a ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ birthday cake for my son’s first birthday, and it turned out wonderfully! I have no experience in making or icing cakes, but this wasn’t too difficult (time consuming yes – it took about 2 hours to ice!, but not difficult). We used two bundt tins to make … Read more
This Hungry Caterpillar birthday cake was really fun to make. I used a 10″ cake tin and this to was double up to be able to fill with homemade butter cream and strawberry jam. It was left in the fridge and straightened all the sides to look perfect (hopefully). The cake itself was quite difficult … Read more