Coolest Butterfly Cake Ideas and How-To Tips 4

This butterfly cake was two 10″ round cakes layered with butter cream frosting and raspberry filling. The butterflies, dragonflies and flowers on the cake and on the sticks are all sugar cookies decorated with butter cream frosting. The butterfly on the smash cake was made the same way. The butterflies on the side of the … Read more

Coolest Rainbow and Butterflies Cake

Homemade Rainbow and Butterflies Cake

My daughter wanted a cake with rainbows and butterflies. I wanted something a little more unique than just a cake shaped like a butterfly and I wanted it to be 3D. After searching around on the net for a rainbow and butterflies cake I found that I could color royal icing and make shapes out … Read more

Adorable Homemade Yellow Butterfly Birthday Cake

Homemade Butterfly Birthday Cake

This homemade butterfly birthday cake was for friends granddauthers 4th birthday. Two tiered white cake butter cream icing tinted yellow. 12 in round & 9in round. I made butterflies form fondant. I colored cut out with cookie cutters piped middles and dots on butterflies with royal icing (let dry a few days). Flowers were also … Read more

Coolest Chocolate Butterflies Cake

Homemade Chocolate Butterflies Cake

This chocolate butterflies cake was made for my daughter’s birthday. She loves chocolate. The base cake is a regular chocolate cake batter divided into two round pans, and iced with a chocolate butter cream icing. I put lots of cocoa in the icing for a dark color and used an icing bag and tip to … Read more

Cool Homemade Butterfly Cake with Fondant Butterflies

Butterfly First Birthday Cake

I made this chocolate cake for my baby girl’s first birthday using inspiration for a butterfly cake I found on this site. Several days ahead, I made the butterflies and letters out of rolled fondant. I used a butterfly cookie cutter (small and large), circle (from the top of my salt shaker) and popsicle sticks. … Read more

Cute Homemade Butterfly Cake Using a Heart Shaped Cake Pan

Butterfly cake

My daughter just turned 8 and she requested a Butterfly cake for her birthday. I looked into butterfly cake pans but they were so expensive so I searched the internet for other ideas. I found this site and someone showed a butterfly cake they had made using a heart shaped cake pan. The idea was … Read more

Coolest Homemade Butterfly Cakes 0

This cake is easier than it looks. I baked a cake in a 12×2 inch cake pan. When completely cooled I cut the cake in half right down the middle. Then I switched the two halves so the rounded part is in the middle. I then cut a piece from the rounded side going up … Read more

Coolest Butterfly Cake Ideas and How-To Tips 5

I made this butterfly cake for a friends daughter’s first birthday. It is an 11×15 cake iced smooth with white icing. I traced a picture from an Anne Geddes picture onto tracing paper. I then traced the picture with piping gel onto wax paper. I placed the wax paper with the piping gel side down … Read more

Adorable Homemade Pink and Purple Butterfly Cake

Homemade Butterfly Cake

The easiest way to create the basic butterfly cake was to prepare three cakes in a 11×13 pan. One would be used to get the basic head and body shape and then the other two would be for two wings each. The wings were basically four separate similar-sized hearts. I covered it all with fondant … Read more

Coolest M&M Butterfly Birthday Cake

Homemade M&M Butterfly Birthday Cake

I saw the instructions for this homemade M&M butterfly birthday cake on a bag of M&Ms I received for Easter! It was easy, fast & a big hit with all of my friends. I chose to use a strawberry cake mix & fluffy white vanilla icing. It took two bags of Easter colored pastel M&Ms … Read more

Coolest Fruity Butterfly Cake

Homemade Fruity Butterfly Cake

For my daughter’s summer birthday, we wanted something with flavors my family liked that still looked special for a birthday. So, I made a Fruity Butterfly Cake with chocolate cake from scratch and baked it in a butterfly shaped pan (although I think it would be just as easy to cut the shape from a … Read more