;Wrapping up the girls' second birthday party were these chocolate and vanilla butterfly cupcakes. For display, I arranged them into two cupcake towers topped with matching "2" candles.
I used two old recipes. For the chocolate cupcakes, I halved the Tuxedo cake recipe to make about 35 regular-sizes cakes. This is a no-fail recipe and I use it for any cake recipe requiring chocolate. I also loved the Rainbow-on-White cake so much that I tried to use the white cake batter for the vanilla cupcakes. While they tasted good, the cake pulls away from the wrappers shortly after cooling. The end result is a bunch of cupcakes looking like someone tried to unwrap and eat them. I tried my best to cover the edges with the vanilla buttercream frosting.
I used two designs for the cupcakes. The first was a simple spiral of frosting with colored pearls and stamped fondant butterflies in contrasting colors of pinks, purples and blue.
The second batch of cupcakes were decorated with a simple flower design using the flower decorating tip. More colored pearls were used to top each individual rosettte to make the cupcakes more festive.
The cupcakes were a crowd pleaser - although I saw more kids licking off all the frosting than actually biting into the cakes. Maybe I should go straight to the cupcake shooters or cupcake push-pops next time with the loads of frosting.
Check out some of the other butterfly-themed party goodies:
Chocolate Caramel Crispy Pretzels
Butterfly Cake Pops
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