B is for Butterfly Cakes

Spring is officially here this month and we have been lucky to experience some beautiful spring weather over the last few weeks. And what better way to celebrate spring than with these cute Butterfly Cakes.

Basic Butterfly Cakes are vanilla cupcakes with a small section of cake removed from the top. The hole is filled with whipped cream and the piece of cake removed from the top is cut in half and placed in the cream to resemble wings. There are a lot of variations on this basic recipe. You can visit the threefootcooks Pinterest page to see our collection of some of these variations.

We made our Butterfly Cakes using pink cupcakes, mock cream and raspberry liquorice for antennae.

Pink Butterfly Cakes

Ingredients

Cakes
60g butter
1/3 cup caster sugar
1 egg
1 cup self-raising flour
¼ cup milk
A few drops of pink food colouring

Mock Cream
2 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons caster sugar
6 tablespoons milk
2 drops of pink food colouring
1 small strip of raspberry liquorice

Directions

1. For cakes - Preheat oven to 190 degrees Celsius and line a patty cake tray with paper cases.

2. Beat butter and sugar to a cream. Add egg and beat well.

3. Add flour and milk and mix to form a smooth thick batter. Stir in food colouring.

4. Spoon batter evenly among paper cases.

5. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Allow to cool on a cooling rack.

6. For mock cream – Cream butter and sugar.

7. Very gradually add the milk and beat until no sugar grains remain. The butter and milk need to be at room temperature for this to work properly. If your mock cream curdles, like ours did, continue to beat it over a bowl of hot water (like melting chocolate) until it comes back together. Mix in the food colouring.

8. To assemble the butterflies – use a small knife to cut an indent in the top of each cake.

9. Fill each indent with a teaspoon of the mock cream.

10. Cut the tops of the cakes in half and arrange as butterfly wings on top of the cream.

11. Cut thin strips of raspberry liquorice and place on cakes as antennae.

This blog was written by Maree Mortimer from Three Foot Cooks, thanks so much for sharing your butterfly cakes recipe with us Maree.  You can find other posts Maree has written for us HERE.