How do you make a butterfly birthday cake?

To make a simple butterfly cake, cut a single-layer, round cake in half. Turn each half around so the cut sides are facing outward and the curved sides are almost touching, like butterfly wings. Then, place a long piece of candy or fondant icing between the cake halves to create the butterfly's body.

What is the meaning of butterfly cake?

Butterfly wedding cake designs are delicate and it's meaning is perfect for weddings. A symbol for a long life and the souls who have passed away . Universally it represents the transformation of life.

What's the difference between fairy cakes and butterfly cakes?

These delicious treats go by this name because of their size, which is small enough for a fairy to eat. However, a version of “butterfly cakes” is a design that has wings on top of the cupcakes . Similar to a butterfly or a fairy's wings!

Why do my butterfly cakes not rise?

When the cake cooks too quickly on the outside it can create an extremely dense interior. Why are my fairy cakes not rising? This could be down to a lack of raising agent - or even old self-raising flour where the raising agent has become less effective.

What is a caterpillar birthday cake?

Colin the Caterpillar is a chocolate sponge roll cake filled with chocolate buttercream and covered in a milk chocolate shell, with sugar-coated milk chocolate beans for decoration . The cake has a decorative face and feet made of white chocolate. The dessert is available in large and small sizes.

What are mommy cakes?

Mommy Cakes is a pink layered cake with white icing between her layers and chocolate frosting on top with three strawberries .

Why is it called Devil cake?

There are a few theories as to how it got its name. One, it's the decadent counterpart to angel food cake . Two, it's sinfully delicious. Finally, devil's food cake came about during a time when food that was spicy, rich, or dark was described as deviled, like deviled ham and deviled eggs.

What do Americans call fairy cake?

A cupcake (AmE), fairy cake (BrE), or bun (IrE) is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.

What is a Sally Ann cake?

Sally Ann— Vanilla cake filled with vanilla whipped icing and iced in chocolate buttercream . Mary Ann—Chocolate cake filled with vanilla whipped icing and iced in chocolate buttercream with a star of vanilla whipped icing on top.

What is the most fancy cake?

The "Diamond Cake" by Debbie Wingham - Price: $75 million An amalgamation of luxury and confectionary art, it's embedded with more than 4000 diamonds, including pink, yellow, and white ones, making it not just a cake but a jewelled masterpiece. It's no wonder it holds the crown for the most expensive cake in the world!

How do you make a butterfly dish?

A butterfly puddler is a shallow bowl where butterflies can gather to get these elements. The bowl should be no deeper than 2 or 3 inches with sloped sides and filled with sand, compost, manure or even better, a mud mix of these materials to provide the minerals butterflies need .

Butterfly Birthday Cake (2024)

Published: Sep 5, 2020 · Modified: Mar 14, 2024 by Priya Maha

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Looking for easy butterfly birthday cake ideas? Here is a simple birthday cake with butterfly design you can make. Cut out of a rectangle cake, this cake is covered in fondant and decorated with royal icing in bright and cheerful colors.

The cake was carved out of a 6 inches by 10 inches rectangle cake. I used a butterfly template which I drew by hand as a guide to cut the butterfly shaped cake. If you are not into drawing your own butterfly template, you can source for one from the internet. Look for 'butterfly coloring pages' and you will find lots of ideas that you can use as butterfly template for cake.

I baked the cake using my butter pound cake recipe which is vanilla flavored, but if you like you can also make a chocolate butterfly cake using my chocolate pound cake recipe.

The cake is decorated in fondant and royal icing. If you prefer the entire cake to be covered in fondant, you can always do so. Alternatively, you can omit the fondant and cover the butterfly cake entirely in buttercream for a buttercream butterfly birthday cake.

Overall, this is a fairly easy butterfly birthday cake to make and decorate. You can further customize the design on the wings as well as the colors used to decorate your butterfly cake. You can even turn this cake into a rainbow butterfly birthday cake by choosing rainbow icing colors to decorate the wings.

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Cake - I baked a rectangle cake measuring 6.5" by 10" using mybutter pound cake recipe.I baked two of these cakes and sandwiched them with buttercream. Use the recipe measurement for 8 inches square cake tins.
Buttercream - I used vanilla buttercream to fill the cake. I also used buttercream to crumb coat the cake.
Fondant - I used very little fondant on this cake. Only the top of the cake was covered in fondant. I used my homemade fondant.
Royal icing- Royal icing was the main icing used for decorating the cake. I also used royal icing to decorate the sides of the cake. For the butterfly wings, I used Wilton gel colors in red, golden yellow, royal blue, and moss green. I also tinted some of the icing in black for the butterfly body.
Butterfly template - I searched the internet for a butterfly template, resized the image such that it would fit my rectangle cake, and printed it out.
Piping tips and piping bags - I used Wilton piping bags for this project. As for the tips, I used Wilton round tip #3 and star tip #16.

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Step 1: Prepare the Butterfly Template

First was the butterfly template. I drew the butterfly template by hand. For consistent sizing of the wings, fold your paper into 2 and draw half of the butterfly. Still keeping the paper folded, cut the butterfly following the outline and then open up the fold. This way, you will get both sides of the wings and body is the exact same shape and size.

If you are not into drawing, you can get a butterfly template from your child's coloring books or simply get a template from the internet. Search for 'butterfly coloring pages' and you will find lots of pretty templates you can use for your cake. Do remember to resize the template to fit your cake before printing. Learn how to resize your templates with my easy tutorial here.

Step 2: Bake and Carve the Cake

Next was baking the birthday cake. I baked 2 rectangle cakes (6.5 inches by 10 inches), sandwiched both with buttercream. And then, using my prepared butterfly cake template, I carved the cake to make a butterfly shaped cake.

I then placed the carved cake on a cake board, and crumb coated it with a thin layer of buttercream.

Step 3: Cover the Birthday Cake with Fondant

I rolled out my white fondant to about ⅛ inch thick and again, using the same butterfly template I used for the cake, cut out the butterfly shape. I dusted the cut fondant with powdered sugar and loosely rolled it into my rolling pin. This way, you can avoid the fondant form stretching and loosing its shape as you are lifting it.

Gently unroll the fondant piece onto the buttercream crumb coated cake and position it to fit onto the butterfly shaped cake.

If there is excess fondant on the sides, use a sharp knife to trim it off. If for some reasons the fondant piece is smaller than the cake, you can stretch it gently to cover the top of the cake entirely.

Step 4: Pipe Royal Icing on the Sides of the Cake

Next was the sides of the butterfly birthday cake. For this, I used a star tip and white royal icing for the vertical lines of icing, all around the cake.

Step 5: Decorate the Butterfly Wings

And then I went on to decorate the wings. I had royal icing tinted in red, blue, yellow, and green and used round piping tips. I piped everything freehand here.

If you intend to make a similar butterfly birthday cake, it would help greatly if you mark the designs on the cake using either a toothpick or small knife before piping. I started with the outlines in yellow. I used a round piping tip and made medium-sized dots all around the butterfly border.

Next were the red and green dotted lines for the upper and lower wings. Again, I used round piping tips and made the medium-sized dots, following the shape formed by the yellow dots earlier as close as possible.

Step 6: Pipe the Butterfly Body

I used a round tip, piped the outline, and then filled the inside with black icing in horizontal lines. Using the same black icing, I made two antennae for the butterfly on the cake board.

After that, I completed the rest of the butterfly wing design, piping the outlines first and then filling the insides. I also piped 2 yellow dots for the butterfly's eyes.

And that was how I decorated my easy butterfly shaped butterfly birthday cake.

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