Butterfly Cupcakes

Last year I took a cake decorating class with my mom and sister. While I found the teacher to be a pain in the behind, I loved the class and what I learned. And yet, I barely ever use the skill. Over the last few days I was inspired to make some cupcakes base on a decoration my sister used. (She actually uses the skills we got in our class on a regular basis.)

These were super easy. I made cupcakes using a store-bought mix. I bought ready-made icing and dyed it yellow and iced the cupcakes like normal. I used white chocolate-covered pretzels as wings and they stayed on the cupcakes pretty easy with the icing. Finally, I made some buttercream frosting and dyed that blue. I piped it out in beads and that made the body of the butterfly. I think I could have used store-bought icing for the bodies as well but I couldn’t have added much dye because it thinned out the icing too much to keep its shape.