I baked this Bumble Bee Cake in a large Pyrex bowl. Using butter cream icing, tint the icing the color of yellow you desire. You will also need black. Using a star tip, decorate the bumble bee as pictured. We used different colored gummy slices for the wings and legs. The stinger and antlers are … Read more
My daughter had a fascination with bees last year and I don’t buy into the licensed character stuff so I thought a bee theme would be perfect for her 2nd birthday party. Mind you, I had never made a shaped cake before, let alone decorated anything with a frosting bag and tips. My sister got … Read more
For this bee cake I made 2 rectangle shaped cakes for the base. I covered it with coconut shavings dyed green to look like grass. I used 2 round Pyrex bowls to create the body and the head. The face is created out of candy. For the stripes I used licorice. The wings are just … Read more
This butterfly cake was prepared using Wilton’s Butterfly Cake Pan and then freehand etched the design. I used #3 and #16 tips with lemon yellow, orange, black, and leaf green colors, but of course the color scheme can be changed for other species or just because…. The colors was mixed with traditional Buttercreme Icing, while … Read more
My cousin stated (jokingly!) that she wanted a purple and green sparkly butterfly for her birthday cake. I took it as a challenge and made her a Butterfly Birthday Cake. It’s actually made with two butterfly cakes made with the Wilton butterfly pan. I had a ton of fondant and Italian buttercream in the freezer … Read more
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 … Read more
My cousin had requested a butterfly birthday cake for her 3rd birthday, so I took a square funfetti cake that I’d baked and cut it in 1/2 diagonally. I cut little triangles out to better resemble a butterfly, squared off the points on the wings to give a more rounded wing effect, and put a … Read more
I am blessed to have 10 kids who regard me as Grandma and it is my privilege to make them birthday cakes. My 6 year old granddaughter wanted butterflies on her cake. I took some of my ideas from this site and added a twist of my own. The candles are butterflies made from Jolly … Read more
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
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
I came across so many wonderful caterpillar cake ideas on this site – I just had to make one for my daughter’s first birthday party. I am SO thrilled with the results. It came out so adorable – I didn’t want to cut it up. I used the Wilton sport ball pan with boxed mixes … Read more
