At Chiquitita's birthday party we not only played Butterfly Bowling and painted our Salt Dough butterflies we also had the most awesome butterfly birthday cake I have ever made. Ok, the most awesome of any kind of cake I have ever made.
My inspiration came from coolest-birthday-cakes.com Butterflies Cake 43.
I started out with two batches of my Choose Your Own Adventure Cake with homemade apricot jam in it. One batch went in a big sheet cake pan and the other in a round cake pan and a heart shaped cake pan. The purple butterfly is with a round cake pan, just like she explains on Coolest Birthday Cakes, but the pink butterfly is just one heart shaped pan carved into a butterfly. Maybe my heart pan is bigger than hers but I didn't have room on my sheet cake for a two heart butterfly.
She didn't mention in her instructions but I had learned by all the Cake Boss episodes I watched during Chiquitita's first few months of life (we did NOTHING back then) that it is important to cool cakes thoroughly before carving them. It really worked! I actually put them in the freezer for a few hours and that made it much easier to carve. I put them in the freezer again before I frosted them and then in the fridge after the initial frosting. I think it really helped everything set for the final frosting.
That final frosting was my biggest challenge. I'm not artistic, so drawing with frosting was very intimidating. I found out that the star tip was my friend and that when in doubt add more frosting. I kept forgetting to buy licorice for the antennae and would you believe my husband doesn't know what it is? I think he spent an hour at the grocery store looking for it. He kept trying to get Twizzlers (which I hate) so we used candles instead.
What do you think?
My inspiration came from coolest-birthday-cakes.com Butterflies Cake 43.
I started out with two batches of my Choose Your Own Adventure Cake with homemade apricot jam in it. One batch went in a big sheet cake pan and the other in a round cake pan and a heart shaped cake pan. The purple butterfly is with a round cake pan, just like she explains on Coolest Birthday Cakes, but the pink butterfly is just one heart shaped pan carved into a butterfly. Maybe my heart pan is bigger than hers but I didn't have room on my sheet cake for a two heart butterfly.
She didn't mention in her instructions but I had learned by all the Cake Boss episodes I watched during Chiquitita's first few months of life (we did NOTHING back then) that it is important to cool cakes thoroughly before carving them. It really worked! I actually put them in the freezer for a few hours and that made it much easier to carve. I put them in the freezer again before I frosted them and then in the fridge after the initial frosting. I think it really helped everything set for the final frosting.
That final frosting was my biggest challenge. I'm not artistic, so drawing with frosting was very intimidating. I found out that the star tip was my friend and that when in doubt add more frosting. I kept forgetting to buy licorice for the antennae and would you believe my husband doesn't know what it is? I think he spent an hour at the grocery store looking for it. He kept trying to get Twizzlers (which I hate) so we used candles instead.
What do you think?
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