Butterfly Cake

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.

butterfly cake assembly

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Butterfly shaped cake assembly

Use a Wilton Speciality cake pan. Here are some ideas on decorating from Wilton.

Butterfly Cupcake Cake

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.

Make a butterfly cupcake by adding a butterfly cupcake topper to a frosted cupcake.

Form a butterfly out of gum drops and add to a frosted cupcake.

gum drop butterfly 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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