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Flowers & Butterflies Cupcakes
by Shanna
(Richfield Utah)
Flowers and Butterflies
For my daughters fourth birthday she wanted a flower and butterfly cake. After thinking for a while I came up with this cake. I just made a batch of cupcakes just using a store bought mix and doctoring it up a bit with some vanilla pudding, and for the flowers left them in the papers decorating them like flowers with white chocolate buttercream frosting(I will include the recipe) and my piping bag and various tips to make the petals. And for the butterflies cutting them in half and piping frosting around them then decorating the top as to look like a butterflies wings.
White Chocolate Buttercream
1 pound of unsalted butter at room temperature
2 11 ounce bags of white chocolate chips
2 TSP vanilla
2 cups of powdered sugar sifted ( though I found that using a little less than this will make it easier to do the piping.)
melt the chocolate with a double boiler. while that is melting beat the butter and vanilla in a mixer. once the chocolate is melted let it cool for a about 10-20 minutes then mix it in with the butter. then slowly add the powdered sugar until it reaches a consitancy that you like.
