Butterfly Cake

The butterflies are made from royal icing and each wing is made separately as run-out work.

This means the outline is piped out on wax paper with a stiff mix of royal icing. This is then allowed to dry (eight hours to be sure in a warm dry area).

Once dry a thinner mix of royal icing is "flooded" in to each section. (the thinner mix is made by adding egg white to a normal mix of icing sugar very slowly, to avoid adding bubbles. The mix should be so thin that when poured it will flow out level, or "flood" the area it is piped in to.

When using such strong colours you need to add each section of colour one at a time and allow to dry or the colours will run in to each other

I made this cake for my niece and here you will see the first novelty cake she made.

And here you will see a cake I made for her third birthday... Now that is going back a bit.