Making a butterfly cake is rather
easy when you shape your cake out of
square cakes. It makes a rather cute cake that you can decorate
whatever colors or style you'd like. We also share with you how to
create butterfly cupcakes and a butterfly video tutorial below.
For the little princess with a love of all things colorful, a butterfly
cake might just be the perfect way to add a bit of girly pizazz to her
birthday party. A number of ways to create a cake like a butterfly are
suitable for persons of all culinary skill levels. Here are just a few
of our favorite butterfly-inspired cake designs to get you started.
Don’t forget to share your
masterpiece in our gallery!
3D Butterfly Theme Cake
For the more experienced cake shaper, a 3D butterfly-designed cake is a
great way to bring your cake to life. While this type of cake does
require some assembly, it does allow you to make your cake as big or as
small as you like. If you’re new to cake shaping, check out
some of our helpful
hints to see what shaping a
cake entails. If you’re not one for shaping, try
using a specialty
butterfly shaped cake pan, like the one offered by Wilton.
Once you have assembled and crumb
coated your cake with the colors of your choice, go crazy!
Decorating is the most fun part about building a 3D cake. Use frosting,
candy and all of the decorating techniques in your repertoire to create
a beautiful masterpiece that will fly off the plate.
Photo
courtesy of Hunterji
Butterfly shaped cake assembly
If you would like to give all of your guests their own special little
birthday treat, try putting together a butterfly cake made completely
out of cupcakes. Cupcake
cakes
are great for birthday parties because
they take less time to make and they are super festive and colorful.
For a large butterfly, make approximately 24 cupcakes and frost them
individually in the colors of your choice before arranging them into
the shape of a butterfly on a large flat cutting board or cake tray.
Once you have the cakes arranged, add additional details like antennae
and eyes to your butterfly with frosting or candy.
Fondant Butterfly Cake
While not everyone enjoys working
with fondant, this pliable, moldable
sugar substance can easily take your cakes from drab to fab, even if
you’re not the best at it. Most kids aren’t a big
fan of eating
fondant, so it may not be wise to cover your entire cake; however, you
can use colored fondant to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind butterflies
to use as decorations on your cake.
Simply make the style and size cake
you desire and frost in your selected color. You can then make assorted
sizes of butterflies made of fondant to spread over your cake. Use
edible sugar diamonds, piping bags and frosting to add additional
details to your cake.
Butterfly Cupcake Ideas
Create a butterfly
cupcake with a molded chocolate butterfly
and top a frosted cupcake with
your butterfly.
Form a butterfly out of gum drops and add to a frosted cupcake.
Butterfly Video Tutorial
Making a gorgeous butterfly cake is relatively simple to achieve. There
are an infinite number of ways to decorate your butterfly and these
cakes look great in almost every color. Try using your
child’s favorite
colors and flavors to create a beautiful piece of edible art.
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