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Coolest Homemade Butterfly Cake

I made this homemade Butterfly cake for my birthday. I love the color yellow and butterflies, so I decided to incorporate both of them into my cake. It is a two layer 6 in cake. I doctored up a white cake mix with lemon pudding and a few extra ingredients (I found this enhanced cake mix recipe on another website) and instead of vanilla extract I used lemon extract. It has a lemon pudding filling and lemon cream icing.

I stacked my two layers and filled them with the pudding but I had to put dowel rods into the top of the cake as the filling made it move around a lot when I was trying to crumb coat the cake. I had originally intended to try a new technique called the petal technique but it just wasn’t working for me due to the fact that that it was a little too warm in my house and the icing wasn’t holding it’s shape very well so I opted to use my Wilton 1M tip and make stars but it ended up looking kind of like ruffles. It turned out much better than I planned.

About 5 days before I decorated the cake I used my Cricut cake machine to cut out the butterflies and the letter S. I used gum paste for this. It was the first time I had used gum paste. The butterflies bent a bit and put into an old (clean) egg carton to dry so it looked like they were flying.

The cake tasted wonderful and I was very happy with the way it turned out even though it wasn’t my original vision.


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