Big Cakes: Fluttering Butterflies

Name: Big Cakes: Fluttering Butterflies
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1 pot tangerine/apricot food colour paste; 1 pot claret food colour paste; 1 kg white sugarpaste; 6-8 butterflies on wires (mine were about 8cm wide); 1 m 15 mm-wide braided ribbon; 2 × 1 m 38 mm-wide ribbons in contrasting colours to coordinate with the butterflies; 50 g bag white royal icing (optional); 3 tbsp apricot jam; icing sugar, to dust; 1 × 1 cm blossom cutter (optional)

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

Exquisite fabric and feather butterflies on wires are widely available in an assortment of colours and designs and will fly over your cake to give instant impact.

Ingredients

1 × Cherry and Marzipan Cake, baked in a round tin

Cake
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Colour the sugarpaste the day before, if possible, using the 2 listed food colours, until you have achieved your desired shade.

Gently warm the jam, sieve it, then brush all over the cake. Dust a clean work surface with icing sugar and roll out the sugarpaste into a circle roughly the diameter of the cake and sides and no thinner than 5mm. Keep mo