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A Butterfly Birthday Cake just screams "sugar 'n spice 'n all things nice". What little girl doesn't love butterflies? And when they're made of chocolate - even better!
The butterflies look impressive but they're very easy to make. All you need is a few candy melts and a little inspiration to make magic in your kitchen.
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ingredients
1st birthday cake - butterfly birthday cake
- 1 x 6" and 1 x 10" round cake - these are Lemon Scented White Cake
- Filling - this one's Whipped Lemon Mousse
- buttercream
- pink and violet gel food color
- Pink candy melts
- White candy melts
- Red candy color
- Blue candy color
- Black candy color
- disposable decorating bags
or gallon sized Ziploc bags
- #199 star decorating tip
or similar
- #30 drop flower decorating tip
or similar
- #4 round decorating tip
or similar
- 2 star tips and small round tip
- cake plate or board
baking
1st birthday cake - butterfly birthday cake
1. bake the cakes and cool completely.
2. level the cakes and tort (split each into two layers horizontally).
3. fill and assemble each cake on a separate cake circle
4. crumb coat - this is a very thin coat of un-tinted buttercream you apply to 'set' the crumbs.
5. refrigerate the Butterfly Birthday Cake(s) for at least one hour.
Chocolate Butterflies
1. draw 16 simple butterfly wing shapes on a sheet of paper and tape the paper to the back of a cookie sheet.
2. tape a piece or wax or parchment paper over the top of the plain paper.
3. melt about 1/4 cup of candy melts in a microwave safe bowl for 30 seconds on high, stir and repeat until completely melted.
4. tint them purple, using your red and blue candy colors.
5. using the back of a teaspoon, fill in the wing shapes to about 1/8" thick (above, left).
6. melt 1/4 cup white candy melts and, using the tip of a wooden spoon, dab on some white dots along the top edge of the wings (above, center).
7. melt 1/4 cup pink candy melts and, using the tip of a wooden spoon, fill in a large pink oval shape on the lower half of the wing (above, right).
8. melt 1/4 cup white candy melts and tint them black then, using the handle of a wooden spoon, dab on a black dot in the lower part of the pink section (above, right).
9. let set for about 30 minutes then gently peel off the paper. It's that simple - now you have butterfly wings for your Butterfly Birthday Cake!
Assembly
1st birthday cake - butterfly birthday cake
divide the buttercream in to three bowls. Leave one white and tint the others light pink and light violet.
prepare three piping bags for trimming the cake. For the star borders you'll need two bags with star tips (#18 or similar), one with pink buttercream and one with light purple buttercream and another bag fitted with a small round tip (#4 or similar) and white buttercream for the bead border.
frost the 6" cake, graduating from white on the bottom to pink on the top, continuing with pink across the top of the cake, as shown.
frost the 10" cake, graduating from light purple on the bottom to white on the top, continuing with white across the top of the cake, as shown.
stack the 6" cake on the 10" cake and secure with frosting.
place your Butterfly Cake on to a plate or board now and secure with frosting to stop from sliding around.
trim the cake. Starting at the top - pipe a small white bead border around the top edge of the top tier, a purple star border to cover the join bewtween tiers and a pink star border around the bottom edge of the cake. Finish with white dots on the pink start border.
make five pairs of cuts about 2" long and 1" deep around the top of the bottom tier, using a small serrated knife. Angle the knife about 45° away from center when you're making the cuts so the wings will sit at a natural angle.
push one chocolate butterfly wing into each one of these cuts, as shown. Be gentle.
pipe a vertical row of stars between the wings to form a body, as shown.
add a set of antennae in white, using the small round tip.
finish by piping a circle of simple, white butterfly wing outlines around the cake board, alternating with pink stars.
You're done! Now go get a well deserved cup of coffee and sit back for a few minutes to admire your handiwork. Remember to take a picture while your masterpiece still looks perfect.
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