These are cute, delicious and easy to make! Growing up we called them “butterfly buns” but today I guess they’d be “cupcakes”?
These are a variation on other butterfly cake recipes I’ve featured. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for links to those!
Ingredients (makes 12 cupcakes)
- 150 g butter/margarine
- 150 g self-raising flour
- 150 g caster sugar
- 3 eggs (medium)
- 3 level teaspoons baking powder
- 25 g cocoa powder
For the buttercream:
- 75 g butter/margarine and 150 g icing sugar
Method
Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Put 12 cupcake cases into your tray.
Cream together the butter and sugar then add the eggs. Beat until the mixture is smooth.
Sift in the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder and mix until well combined.
Put a dessertspoonful of the mixture into each case. Bake in the oven for about 2o minutes or until they’ve risen and are slightly springy to the touch. If you stick a sharp knife into one it should come out clean.
Leave to cool. Meanwhile make the buttercream by beating the icing sugar and margarine/butter to form a smooth paste.
To make the “butterflies”: saw the top off each cake using a sharp knife.
Cut the circles of cake you have cut off down the middle to give you two “wings”. Pipe or spoon your buttercream into the top of the cupcakes. Stick the wings to the cupcake.
I added some chocolate sprinkles and multi-coloured sugar sprinkles down the “body” of the butterflies. Finally, using a tea strainer as a mini-sieve, I dusted the cupcakes with icing sugar.
Sorry for not having many pictures this week. By way of compensation, below is a picture of my most recent baking fail. I was trying to decorate cupcakes to make them look like sheep (if you Google this, you’ll get an idea of what I was going for). Unfortunately the finished product looked nothing like sheep – my niece suggested they were more like white lions! Personally, I thought one of them looked a little like Hitler (this is still making me chuckle, but then I’m easily amused).
Here are some of my other butterfly bun, or cupcake recipes:
Chocolate orange butterfly cakes (featuring Jaffa cakes).
Cute and colourful butterfly cakes (with more photos to demonstrate how to assemble the cakes).
Wow! Yum!!! Im saving this!
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Thanks – and surprisingly easy to make too ๐
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So i see… I feel my waistline growing lol
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I love these Claire, so pretty and each unique!
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Thank you! ๐ Always popular with kids of all ages, too.
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oh I am sure! Really cool!
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Want want want
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Thanks! ๐
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Yum!
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They are delicious. And so easy to make!
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My kind of baking!
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Oh! I’m going to make these and get the twins to help me. They would LOVE these!
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My son always helps with the mixing and then anything to do with sprinkles. And then eating. You never have to ask him twice to help there ๐
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Yummazing!!
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Thanks! I made these quite quickly for a children’s party (my niece’s) and then we forgot to take them. So we had to eat them. *sigh* Life’s tough sometimes ๐
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omg these are super cute & look delicious!
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Thank you! They are yummy ๐
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They butterflies look lovely and the sheep are so cute they make me chuckle. I would happily eat both. Happy weekend to you! ๐
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Thank you, that’s very kind of you to say that about the sheep cupcakes. They did taste good… I think more planning is required before the next attempt ๐
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We called them butterfly cakes too! They look really light & fluffy. I love your sheep ones!! ๐
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The sheep were a bit of a disaster. I had an image in my mind as to how they should look, and it certainly wasn’t like that! But at least they gave me a good laugh ๐ I might have another go at them in the spring…
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I really like them!! You should try & make a cupcake nativity. ๐
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