Has anyone made a butterfly shaped birthday cake? Need some ideas!

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I was thinking of this for my 4yo DD's party cake. Thinking of making 2 9in round cakes and halving them and putting something in the middle for the butterfly body. Any ideas? I'm q. pg. with 3 children so trying to keep it as simple as possible. Thanks!

I made one for DD's 2nd birthday last year. It was a round cake halved with 4 choc rolls in the middle and decorated with sweets. It was on here about it and there was a link to an American website which gave help. Will do a search.

Right I have found the website with the buttefly cake on

Bozza, you are a star. Can I ask you what size tins you used - did you do 2 x 9in and then halve them? Then I presume you used a line of choc mini rolls. For the decoration did you do a similar icing - i was thinking of just doing pink and marking out the shape of the wings with sweets and sprinkles. Thanks for the help! By the way - what IS a twinkie?

or you could buy a butterfly cake mold.. just seen one on ebay...

Then you only have to decorate it..

There are some really nice cakes on google images!...

Want to make one myself now - don't think I can wait until December for DDs birthday - hell do I need an excuse to make a cake?

you can use dessicated coconut, and mix it with a few tiny drops of food coloring (healthy kind) and tiny drops of water, and get delightful colors to decorate your butterfly with

I sort of used the mini rolls balanced on top of each other because they weren't as tall as the cake. I think I used 8" tins. I did the colouring the same as on the picture, but used different sweets, and also red shoelace sweets for the antennae. These were a bit floppy but I sort of looped them round back to the cake and stuck a red smartie on the end of each.

i have a butterfly shaped silicone mould that I used for dd's birthday. It made things very easy

I made a round cake and then got a butterfly biscuit cutter and cut the butterfly out of another cake so it was raised up.

Did the bottom one pale purple royal icing and the top butterfly one pale pink. THen loads of psarlky stuff.

It was really easy and everyone said it looked really good.

I did a whole butterfly party when she was 4 if you want any ideas.

Wow - thanks everyonr. dimpled thighs - the more ideas the better! Please go ahead!

Okay - first I got one of these and that is what I used for the cake. I also made biscuits and got some decorations and they did icing biscuits and I used it to cut the sandwiches into butterfly shape - got my money's worth from that cutter!

Waiting for children to arrive I read the very hungry caterpillar

We did a game of musical chairs but I had painted some big pink flowers and cut them out (much easier than it sounds) and then used those for 'musical butterflies'

oh I did a thing where the flowers were blue tacked round the room - one for each child and they had to be a butterfly and find a flower

umm

butterfly dancing?

Will post more if I remember - it wasn't very involved - I don't do 'involved'!

made invites by DD doing loads of pink butterfly fold over pictures with glitter.

We made loads of the stuff ourselves.

Oh - butterfly fairy cakes - make / buy uniced cakes and get those orange and lemon cake decoration slices and some black icing - line for body and stick on two slices for wings - look fab

I used that recipe from the American site last year and it was really easy, I made one round cake then cut a rectangle shape out of the middle and turned the two ovals outwards to make the wings - dd loved it and I was quite pleased with it if i do say so myself!

Here's mine! bit wobbly around the edges but tasted good!