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Black Butterfly Cake

October 14, 2015 by Erin Gardner

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

Our contributor, Erin Gardner of Erin Bakes, is back with a new tutorial today!

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

I imagine witches must have amazing birthday parties.  Crazy, blow-out, over-the-top shindigs.  Playing games like ring around the cauldron and pin the tail on the black cat.  Sipping bubbling brew, while nibbling on eye of newt and toe of frog.  And I’m absolutely certain a witch’s birthday bash would have a killer cake.  One like this creepy beauty topped with a swarm of spooky, sparkly butterflies.  Today, I’m teaching you how to make this Black Butterfly Cake at home, just in time for Halloween.

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

BLACK BUTTERFLY CAKE
a tutorial by Erin Gardner

Supplies:
Cake
Black candy melts
Silver sanding sugar
Parchment paper
Black marker
Cardboard
Assorted sprinkles and edible stars

 

Bake a cake using one of our cake recipes or a box mix.  Assemble and frost with the icing of your choice.  My cake was iced with black buttercream frosting, mixed with pops of purple frosting.

Draw a set of butterfly wings on a piece of parchment paper.  I drew my butterfly wings free-hand.  You could also print out an image to trace if that’s easier for you.

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

Flip the parchment paper over so that the ink is facing down.

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

Melt black candy melts in the microwave as directed on the package.  Pour melted candy into a piping bag or paper cone.  Trace and fill in the butterfly wings.

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

Quickly pour the silver sanding sugar over the wings while they’re still wet.  Cover completely.

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

Allow the wings to firm up at room temperature, about 10 minutes.  Pour excess sanding sugar back into jar to use again.

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

Fold the piece of cardboard in half and open it back up, so that it forms a V shape.  Fold a piece of parchment paper in half and place it on top of the cardboard as a liner.

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

Pipe a line of black candy melts into the fold.  This will form your butterfly’s body.  Arrange the wings making sure they’re all in contact with the melted candy.

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

Pipe another line of black candy melts on top of your original line.  Set the butterfly aside to harden completely before using.

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

Use your spooky sparkly butterflies to dress up a buttercream cake or as creepy-cool cupcake toppers.  I also created a few tiny plain black butterflies to add to the starry, sparkly swarm.

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

To finish off my witchy creation, I added a mix of small edible silver stars, large silver candy stars, silver jimmies and black sugar pearls.  White rock candy crystals surround the base.

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

How to make a creepy-cool Black Butterfly Cake for Halloween! | Erin Gardner for TheCakeBlog.com

 


 
YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY:
Spooky Splatter Halloween
Mini Mice Cakes
Marshmallow Spiderweb Cake
Monster Eye Cake


 

Find all of our Halloween recipes and tutorials in our Halloween Cake Gallery!

Halloween Cake Tutorials, DIYs and Recipes on TheCakeBlog.com

October 14, 2015 by Erin Gardner

Erin Gardner , CONTRIBUTOR

Erin Gardner is a pastry chef and cake designer. Her main focus is ErinBakes.com where she shares fun and accessible recipes and techniques. Read more about Erin on her bio page.

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Comments

  1. birthday cupcake says

    October 14, 2015 at 5:37 pm

    classy amazing cake, the dcoration look pro

  2. Sheila says

    October 14, 2015 at 10:19 pm

    Beautiful!! How did you get the buttercream that true black color?

  3. June @ How to Philosophize with Cake says

    October 15, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    Wow, such a show-stopper! Love the little sanding-sugar butterflies, they’re so cute–and perfect for the halloween-y theme too 🙂

  4. Elizabeth says

    October 24, 2015 at 8:48 pm

    Halloween may be the only occasion you could get away with serving your guests black icing. They will have spooky colored mouths for awhile!

  5. Kat Forsyth says

    November 19, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    Omigosh, I LOVE black cakes! So unusual. And this one is just dreamy.

  6. Heidi says

    December 4, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    WOW!! Stunning!

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