My best friend Heather asked me to make her daughter Kaylynn a birthday cake to remember. She knew that I usually always make the birthday cakes for a few of my other friends’ children and I always, always make my son’s cakes. I never buy one that is pre-made from the store. It is more … Read more
I made this butterfly cake for a girl’s birthday party. The flavor was strawberry and color theme was pink. Baked two 9×13″ cakes with strawberry flavor, cut the sides to give the shape of butterfly. ( I drew the butterfly on a sheet of paper, cut it and then put it over the cake to get accurate shape). … Read more
This Barbie Mariposa cake was a very fun cake to create, we spent a lot of time laughing while trying over and over again to make Barbie’s “outfit” look just right. This cake started out as two simple chocolate 13 x 9 cakes. By shaping the first cake, tracing on paper and mirroring the cuts on the second cake … Read more
Thanks to this great website I had heaps of ideas for my little girl’s first birthday cake. I decided on a butterfly cake and purchased a butterfly shaped cooking tin from online. I then set about looking at all the icing ideas from this website and just loved one of them (thanks #17!!) so decided … Read more
I really needed a quick and easy cake and this homemade Butterfly cake is what I came up with. It was my birthday, and my three year old son was so excited about celebrating my birthday. I therefore wanted to make a fun cake myself and save money at the same time I used one … Read more
We used boxed cake mixes to save time for our Butterfly First Birthday Cake. (Found from experience that if you mix it for about 5 minutes it comes out so much better). The bottom layer is chocolate with chocolate frosting on top, then a strawberry layer with strawberry frosting on top, then a white layer … Read more
This year my twin grandchildren’s birthday theme was John Deere. I ordered the girl and boy JD stuff on line and then worked cakes to coordinate. My granddaughter’s cake was a Butterfly Birthday Cake. I had looked for butterfly cakes and nothing inspired me. I used the Wilton butterfly cake pan and adjusted the colors … Read more
My daughter and I came up with this Buttterlies cake design, two butterflies in a flower garden after I realized I did not own a large enough round cake pan to simply make one big butterfly for her 4th birthday party! The base is a half sheet cake, frosted green and with the tufts of … Read more
These butterfly cakes were easy. I started with a round cake and cut it in half. I turned the halves around so the outside of the circle was touching. The frosting matched the flavor of the cake. I made 2 orange, 2 choc, and 2 strawberry. A Twinkie was the body and red licorice string … Read more
The preparation of butterfly birthday cakes is simple. I did a normal sponge cake mixture (I made a double mixture). This way the cake came very high. Baked in a square pan and cut the butterfly free-hand. I used my own ideas and colors for the decoration. I mixed all colors from white icing.
I used the Wilton Butterfly pan for this butterfly cake. The party Colors were lavender and green so I used the Violet coloring and made a light purple and dark purple, some yellow icing and then black for the butterfly body. I used a star tip for the whole thing except for the eyes, mouth … Read more
