Mar 07 2009
A Butterfly Birthday Cake
I promised a picture of the completed butterfly, and even though I don’t have all of the recipes posted yet, here is the finished cake!
The rundown:
I know, it’s missing the antennae, but we put 7 candles on it… 1 on each of the bottom 5 cupcakes, and 2 on the top one. Antennae problem solved!
The top right heart is Red Velvet Cake, with a whipped cream cheese and cherry filling (oh yeah).
The top left heart is Swedish Butter Cake with whiped cream cheese and apricot jam filling.
The bottom wings are Fruity Carrot Cake.
The body is made from the Dulce Sin Leche cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The world – an amazing book. We made these last year, and they were my favorite – even over chocolate cake. Now that’s sayin’ something!
I’ll get the Swedish Butter recipe posted soon – it’s worth it. This year, I’m really not sure which is my favorite – they are all very, very good. The butter cake is similar to a pound cake – add the whipped cream cheese and apricot jam and it’s simply heavenly – but certainly NOT light!
The red velvet is dense… VERY dense (as a good chocolate cake should be) and the cherries gave it a black forest kind of feel. So good.
The carrot cake was the one that was eaten the most – and most of the guests were ages 8 & under! They loved it, as did the adults that had some. Unfortunately, there just isn’t much of that one left.
Next time you are looking for a great cake, pick one of these (or try them all!) There’s not a bad on in the bunch.
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