Lovely Butterfly Cupcakes

Butterfly cupcakes are the most versatile cupcake for decoration. A lot of ideas are available for making the butterfly.

Some of the ideas are hard to do and some are not. The idea below is very simple and I'm sure you can try it at home and come up with your own variation.

Cheerful Butterfly

Ingredients

• Cupcakes - any recipe

• Buttercream icing in white, red and dark brown

• M&Ms in red, orange and brown

• Colorful sprinkles

Decorating Method

1. Cover cupcakes in white buttercream icing.

2. Take 5 brown M&Ms and arrange vertically to make the butterfly body.

3. Place two red M&Ms and two orange M&Ms at the bottom.

4. Using red icing, pipe the outline of the butterfly using tip #1.

5. Sprinkle the colorful sprinkles around the M&Ms, but keep inside the outline.

6. Lastly, draw the tentacles using dark brown icing.

Butterflies In My Stomach!

For these butterfly cuppies, I used mini pretzels as the wings. Their shape and size are just right I had to use them in my cupcake decorating.

Combined with beautiful colors, these will make lovely servings at tea or party.

Ingredients

• Cupcakes - any recipe

• Buttercream icing in yellow, white, blue, green and red

• Mini pretzels

• Shining beads

• M&M candies

Decorating Method

1. Divide the cupcakes into 4 equal numbers.

2. Cover a quarter of the cupcakes with yellow buttercream icing, a quarter in green icing, a quarter in red icing and the other quarter in blue icing.

3. Line the M&M candies in the middle, vertically. Put 4 candies on each cupcake.

4. Place 2 mini pretzels on each cupcake. Each pretzel is placed at the sides of the M&Ms. They are for the wings.

5. Pipe out two small balls of white icing at one end.

6. Put one shining bead on each ball of icing for the eyes, and you've got lovely butterflies.

Lovely Pink and Blue Butterflies...

For this butterfly cupcake idea, I used butterfly royal icing toppers. They are ready-made cupcake decoration, so I just baked the cupcakes and frosted them.

With just a little bit more decoration to enhance the butterflies, I thought they looked wonderful.

Ingredients

• Cupcakes - any recipe

• Buttercream icing in white

• Butterfly royal icing toppers

• Pink sugar

• Pink dragees

Decorating Method

1. Make swirls on each cupcake.

2. Sprinkle the pink sugar all over.

3. Put some pink dragees on top.

4. Lastly, the fun part, place each butterfly topper on each cupcake.

Jelly butterflies

Here is another butterfly cupcake idea, which is using orange jellies.

It's practical because the decorations can be easily bought from the local candy store.

Ingredients

• Cupcakes - any recipe

• Buttercream icing

• Orange jellies that can be bought at the candy store

• Red long candy

• chocolate sprinkles for the 'antler'

• Blue M&Ms

How To

1. Cover cupcakes with buttercream icing.

2. Cut the red long jellies to short lengths.

3. Place each short red jelly in the middle of each cupcake.

4. Place four orange jellies on each cupcake to make the butterfly wings.

5. Place two blue M&Ms for the butterfly's eyes on each cupcake.

6. Put up two pieces of chocolate sprinkles for the antlers.

Enjoy your cupcakes.

You can use these for decoration, too...

Sugar Toppers	Candle Toppers	Cupcake Sprinkles
Butterfly Sugar Toppers $3.49	Butterfly Candle Toppers $4.95	Butterfly sprinkles $2.69

Cupcake Picks	Cupcake Picks	Cupcake Rings
Butterfly cupcake picks $3.89	Butterfly Fancy cupcake picks $3.49	Butterfly cupcake rings $3.49

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