Coolest Homemade Butterfly Cakes 7

For my daughters first birthday I did a butterfly theme and made butterfly cakes. For each butterfly, I baked two cakes, one using the largest spring form round pan and the other a 9×9 square pan. After letting the butterfly cakes cool, I cut the 9×9 cake in half and put it in the middle … Read more

Coolest Butterfly Birthday Cakes 1

This beautiful butterfly cake is quite simple to make. First I baked a round cake and four cupcakes. The round cake is then cut in half and the cut edges shaped to resemble the edges of a butterflys wings as in the picture. The cake was iced with ready made soft white icing tinted light … Read more

Butterfly Cake

Butterfly Cake

I used a strawberry cake mix for this butterfly cake because I wanted the inside to be pink, in a 9 inch round cake pan. After cooling I put it in the freezer for a few minutes to hopefully make it easier to cut. Then I cut it in half and placed round edges together, … Read more

Pretty Homemade Butterfly Birthday Cake

Homemade Beautiful Butterfly Birthday Cake

I am so happy with how this butterfly birthday cake turned out. I owe my success to another “Coolest Cakes” butterfly photo (the orange and black monarch). As I explain below, I use the baker’s technique of tracing the image with black gel and pressing it onto the cake to make an outline. Here’s how … Read more

Orginal Homemade Butterfly Birthday Cake Idea

Homemade Butterfly Birthday Cake Idea

I was trying to decide what kind of cake to make for my mom, who likes to work in her garden and whose favorite flowers are yellow roses. Lacking the skill to make presentable roses, I decided on a Butterfly Birthday Cake Idea on a yellow background. The cake is just a boxed spice cake … Read more

Colorful Homemade Butterfly Cake

Homemade Butterfly Cake

This Butterfly Cake was for my kindergarten class’s reunion. Each year we set butterflies free so that was the theme of the party. I used three 9 by 13 inch rectangle vanilla cakes for the wings which I carved into the shape of the wings. I decided the shape of the wings by drawing out … Read more

Coolest Homemade Butterfly Cakes 8

The cake was baked in a Wilton flower pan and covered in fondant. The hearts on the flower are also fondant, and the grass trim on the bottom is butter cream. The 3D butterflies are fondant (with popsicle sticks inserted in the bottom to hold them upright), which were left to dry until hard. The … Read more

Coolest Butterfly Birthday Cakes 2

I made this cake for my daughters third birthday. We had a butterfly theme so a butterfly cake was a must. I baked a Kabocha spice cake with a pastry cream filling and lightly sweetened cream cheese frosting colored yellow and pink with natural food colorings. For the wings I used a 13×9 cake pan … Read more

Coolest Butterfly Cake

Butterfly Cake

I made a butterfly cake for my daughter’s 6th birthday party which was a butterfly party. I received lots of inspiration from this website. Thank you! The photos and information are great. I used a Wilton’s butterfly cake pan that I bought at Michael’s. I found a great chocolate cake recipe on familyfun.com under the … Read more