Butterfly cupcakes
BUTTERFLY CUPCAKES
When my daughter had her second child, I decided that instead of having the traditional girls-only baby shower, I would do a big family party. As it turns out, she delivered the baby 3 weeks early, so it turned into a “meet the new baby” party. We also did not want to leave our granddaughter out of the celebration, so we combined “meet Baby Chase” with “Maddie’s a big sister.”
Since there would be several small children at the party, I decided against a cake. Instead, I thought about making cupcakes, of course. I made a chocolate box mix cake (since I had so much else to do to prepare) and then made a basic buttercream frosting. I used Wilton green gel food coloring to tint the buttercream. I then used Wilton Candy Melts in light cocoa to trace the outline of the butterflies. Once these were set, I used more of the candy melts and tinted them with Wilton gel food coloring in pink and blue. I filled in the outlines with the pink or blue and then tapped the counter to smooth out the tinted chocolate and get out any bubbles. I then detailed the wings with more melted light cocoa. The final step was to make the butterfly bodies by making a small line on wax paper with the light cocoa melt and adding the wings.
