Here's a book we just bought!!!
We LOOOOVEEE all the ideas!
In anticipation of the butterflies that come into our butterfly bushes every june/july...
here are some butterfly (viceroy or monarch? ... to be determined this year) , we baked some butterfly mini cupcakes using the basic vanilla cupcake recipe from the book.
Delicious!
I must say the melted chocolate butterflies were more difficult than i expected. Working with hot melted chocolate in ziplock bags (as they recommend) made for hot hands and not a very steady stream of chocolate (thus look at how messy they are). Also the butterflies are meant to be bigger, for bigger cupcakes. To work in such a small scale and at that speed, trying to make sure the chocolate does not harden was challenging. Next time i will work big, buy more chocolate, and work one butterfly at a time ... not assembly line style, as i thought I could do!
So to re-cap...
Not meant for mini cupcakes
Use pastry bag with tips
Have a steady hand and use the template they provide!
They were fun to make though and honeypie had fun swirling the chocolate on the wings.
Back to our butterfly bush...
It will soon be home to some butterflies in this coming june/july . We are eagerly awaiting since it fills up with tons and it is just beautiful!
We are actually confused as to what they might actually be... viceroy? monarch?
This is a viceroy butterfly which looks alot like the monarch except it is smaller and has a black band across the center of the hind wing.
this is a monarch butterfly butterfly
this is a painted lady butterfly
Love these cute cupcakes! Watching the caterpillars move through their life cycle must have been amazing!
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