Butterfly Cake

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This one was fun! Covered in buttercream. Butterflies are made with color flow icing.

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WOW! This is beatiful! But, if the butterflies are color flow, how did you get them to pop out the wings?? Amazing work!

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Thanks for all of your nice comments! To make the butterflies "pop", I made each wing separately and let them harden. Then, I folded a piece of cardstock, lined with press n seal, piped the body in the crease and place the wings on either side. I used triangle-shaped make-up applicators under the cardstock to prop up the wings. When the bodies dried, I "glued" them to a plastic dowel with icing and stuck them in the cake so that the butterflies didn't touch the buttercream. I hope that makes se...