32 of the Most Amazing Butterfly Cake You Will Love

Butterfly cake is the best centerpiece for your outdoor summer celebrations. Have a look at our impressive list for your next brilliant cake idea.

A Few Words About Butterfly Cake

There’s nothing more beautiful than a butterfly cake to complete your summer and spring parties. It’s always fun to interpret these beautiful winged animals in any art form, cake decorating included. The cakes on our list will demonstrate just that. They will portray the beauty and colors of butterflies.

If you’re already intimidated by the thought of making your colorful butterfly cake, don’t worry. We have several different difficulty levels – from complicated multi-tier cakes to simple single-tier cakes with toppers you can get at the store. Both are equally as impressive! Don’t wait and try one of the recipes. We guarantee your friends and families will be in awe.

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Teddy Bear and Butterfly Cake

This is one of the most wonderful butterfly cake ideas, especially if your little ones are fans of teddy bears. This way, you’ll meet them halfway by creating a cake adorned with bears and butterflies.

That’s not the only impressive part of the cake. This butterfly cake design is a multi-tier and multi-colored cake, which is a great callback to the iridescent butterfly wings. The first tier is blue, the second tier is yellow, and the top tier is pink.

Using fondant, you will create the wavy exterior of the cake, butterflies, and teddy bears. So make sure you have your creativity ready.

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Vegan Crepe Blue Butterfly Cake

Is baking not your forte? Then we have good news for you. Turns out you don’t need to bake a cake if you want to make an impressive dessert. This cake is made by stacking plenty of crepes together by layering them with buttercream frosting.

If you haven’t heard of it yet, it’s called the Mille crepes, or millions of crepes creating a tall cake. This cake is a simple cake that anyone can make. They used the blue butterfly pea flower for natural dye or coloring, which creates a magical blue/purple hue for your cake.

Stack your blue crepes and layer them with buttercream, then decorate with butterfly cake toppers. This is a truly one-of-a-kind and natural blue butterfly cake.

Total preparation time: 3 hours

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Purple Butterfly Birthday Cake

Are you not a big fan of fondant? Then you should try this purple butterfly cake instead. This cake is a simple purple butterfly cake that has wavy sides and butterfly toppers. The unique thing is it doesn’t use fondant for decoration.

Instead, it uses printouts and manipulates the buttercream to look wavy. You start by making your base cake, the maker used chocolate base cake, but this is something you can customize. Then cover the entire cake with light purple buttercream.

After leveling everything, you will manually take your spatula and create the wave. Follow the tutorial to see exactly how to do it. Then top the cake off with some store-bought butterfly toppers.

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Simple Purple Butterfly Cake

This cake is inspired by the Pinterest trend of purple butterfly birthday cakes on social media lately. The maker wanted to show us that creating an impressive-looking butterfly birthday cake is super easy.

All you need is a spinner, spatula, and buttercream. The cake is a single-tier cake covered with an ombre of purple colors – with the bottom of the cake being darker than the top. Then she used the scraper or spatula to press onto the cake to create wavy sides.

Follow the tutorial to know exactly how to do it. Lastly, she put several different butterfly cutouts as toppers to decorate the cake. A very cute girly butterfly birthday cake.

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Wave Effect Yellow Butterfly Cake

This is another wonderfully created birthday butterfly cake that you can also make at home. The idea is similar to the previous ones we have on this list, but the color scheme is very summery – they use yellow instead of purple or blue.

The result is a fresh-looking dessert that can be brilliant as a butterfly baby shower cake or butterfly wedding cake. Because the color yellow is well-known as a unisex color appropriate for both girls and boys.

Try making this cake your own by customizing it according to your taste, such as using your favorite flavor for the base cake. Or better yet, make this into a baby reveal butterfly theme cake by using dyed vanilla sponge cake inside.

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Elegant Flower and Butterfly Cake

This is an elegant butterfly and flower cake that you definitely want to make for your next outdoor celebration. Whether it’s a birthday party or a bridal shower, the butterfly flower cake will fit perfectly.

The cake is a two-tier pink and purple butterfly cake that’s covered with buttercream and decorated using fondant. The butterfly cake topper is simply bought from a bakery or online shop, which makes this cake very easy to make.

Then you will also be using some real, fresh flowers as decorative elements at the end. We’d like to recommend you use baker’s tape on the stem or edible flowers because sometimes the stem can stain or give a weird flavor.

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Simple Flower and Butterfly Cake

This is another simple flower and butterfly cake you can easily make at home. The flower butterfly cakes shown in this tutorial are yellow and pink butterfly cake designs. That’s right.

The tutorial will show you one way to create a butterfly cake recipe and two different buttercream butterfly birthday cakes. The first butterfly design cake will have a fresh green theme, while the second one will have a pink champagne theme.

The results are two distinct but equally wonderful and elegant birthday cake butterfly themed. Your friends will be sharing yellow and pink butterfly cake images for years, impressed with your creation.

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Fall Flower and Butterfly Cake

If you’re having a fall celebration, this can be the perfect butterfly-themed cake to try making at home.

The cake features the famous giant Monarch butterfly and also autumnal flowers in the mix, creating a cascading bouquet of orange, red, and yellow flowers on one side of the cake. The blue base cake contrasts perfectly with the flowers on the side, striking a balance you won’t miss.

Another autumn theme on the cake is the fact that the base cake is made using cinnamon apple cake, which tastes rich and delicious. This is truly a video you’d want to save to your memory.

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Pink Butterfly Cake

Do you still want to have more ideas for pink butterfly cakes? Then here’s another one for you! This cake is a simple single-tier cake with an ombre-colored pink that goes from dark to light.

The base cake is made with chocolate sponge cakes and then layered with some vanilla buttercream as its crumb coat. This cake will have cascading butterflies and be adorned with some artificial pink roses and scatters of gold dust that follow along the butterflies.

The ombre color is made by mixing white buttercream with pink buttercream, then slightly leveling them together to create a seamless effect.

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Ombre Purple Butterfly Cake

Do you love naked cakes? If you’re not familiar yet with these wonderfully rustic designs, we’ll tell you about your next addiction. Naked cakes are the perfect gateway to baking because it’s so simple that even kids can do it.

It’s also a perfect recipe for those who are not big fans of thick layering of buttercream or fondant and only like them in small portions. Naked cakes are merely sponge cakes stacked together without worrying about layering the outside with anything.

And these purple butterfly ombre cakes are a great example of it. The base cakes are dyed with gradients of purples and then stacked from dark to light. Don’t forget to top it off with some butterfly toppers.

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Buttercream Pink Butterfly Cake

If you’re after a feminine butterfly-themed cake, this recipe can be the perfect birthday cake for you or your loved ones. The cake is a single-tier cake adorned with pink and white ombre-colored velvety buttercream.

It’s also decorated with wonderful gold edible pearls that go perfectly with the pink and gold butterflies that will be scattered throughout the cake.

This cake also has the wavy buttercream design you saw from the others earlier on this list, so you’ll be demonstrating the scraping technique here too. The feminine cake is a great idea for outdoor or indoor celebrations.

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Simple Purple Butterfly Cake

Are you looking for a cleaner butterfly cake design? You should try making this cake when celebrating a birthday or wedding. The cake is a simple single-tier cake that’s decorated with buttercream flowers and printouts of butterflies or butterfly toppers.

You will decorate the cake in a cascading manner to the right so that it looks like waterfalls of flowers and butterflies. Start with some chocolate sponge cakes, then stack them to create a considerable height for your cake.

Then you’ll be covering them with some dark purple colored buttercream and piping on purple flowers to one side of the cake.

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Rosette Butterfly Cake

This is also a simple buttercream rosette and butterfly cake design that’s similar to the previous one. But this has a slightly more feminine touch with its pink, light purple, and gold theme.

The cake is a single-tier cake decorated with a pink buttercream rosette, edible gold pearls, and purple butterflies. The maker also decided to top the cake with some happy birthday and age toppers.

You can skip these if you intend the cake to be a Sunday brunch menu or a wedding cake. The most challenging part would probably be when you’re creating the rosettes, but with a bit of practice, you’ll be decorating easily.

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Whipped cream Edible Butterfly Cake

Here’s another ombre pink-themed butterfly cake you can try making at home. It has the same wavy sides and butterfly toppers as the previous ones, but the difference with this cake is that it’s made with whipped cream instead of buttercream, and the ombre color is upside down from light to dark at the top.

It’s a wonderful cake to try if you’re not a big fan of buttercream or fondant, and it also highlights the color instead of hiding it at the bottom.

So we think this is a really clever idea and a different take on the ombre butterfly cake trend. Try this one for a change, and let us know how it goes!

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Buttercream Purple Butterfly Cake

This is a simple butterfly cake that anyone can easily make at home, and it will not take that long as well. You’ll finish the cake in no more than two hours if you have all the ingredients.

The cake is made with vanilla sponge cakes, then layered with a filling made out of frosting. You will then cover the entire cake with purple frosting and level it. Afterward, you will start piping the light purple rosettes onto the cake.

Here’s when it’s a little different than the other cakes on this list – you will also be using a darker purple frosting to put in between the rosettes. That means you’ll have two different colored rosettes as decorations. Then top the cake with butterfly toppers, and you’re done.

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Minimalist Purple Butterfly Cake

This next cake is a minimalist purple butterfly cake that’s also very simple and beginner-friendly. What’s great about this recipe is that the maker will show you how to make this cake from scratch – she will bake the base cake first and layer them carefully.

Another factor that makes this cake beginner-friendly is that the maker used a box cake instead of raw ingredients, which makes it super simple to do.

As we said, she will show you exactly how to make this cake step by step, even going as far as showing you how she chose the purple butterfly images on the internet individually and printed them out as toppers!

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Buttercream Flower and Fondant Butterfly Cake

If you’re after a challenge, this cake will require you to use your artistic skills and your patience. You will be making an impressive and colorful fondant butterfly and flower buttercream cake.

Unlike the other one-note color theme cakes we’ve had on this list, this cake actually uses the real colors of flowers and butterflies! The flowers are blue, pink, and purple, with green leaves. Then the butterflies are individually painted with edible paint.

It’s going to take a lot of time as you go through them one by one, but the ending is something that you see out of a storybook, truly worth it.

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Fancy Butterfly Cake

Is one idea not enough for you? Here’s a tutorial that shows you how you can decorate two distinct butterfly cake designs, both using the color pink. The recipes shown in this tutorial play around with melted chocolate and buttercream instead of fondant.

So if you’re not a big fan of fondant, these recipes might be a good alternative for you. The first one will have a fancy white line going through one side that’s separated by pearls. Then you’ll top it off with some paper butterflies and chocolate spheres.

The next cake is a simple pink single-tier cake topped with some butterfly toppers. The bottom of the second cake is decorated with pink and white chocolate ganache pieces, taking the cake decoration to the next level.

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Vanilla Fairy Butterfly Cupcakes Cake

Here’s a very simple vanilla butterfly fairy cake recipe for those of you who want to skip the serving plates and the long hours of baking. If you haven’t heard of fairy cakes before, it’s a cupcake with the top cut off.

Then the center of the cake will be piped with some filling, and the top will be cut into two and placed back onto the sides of the cake. So, in the end, it will look like a fairy, or a butterfly, hence the name.

Essentially you’ll be making butterfly cake with cupcakes or butterfly cupcakes cake. These butterfly cupcake cakes are made with vanilla sponge cake and vanilla buttercream filling, so it’s a very classic recipe that everyone can enjoy.

Calories per serving: 448
Total preparation time: 40 minutes

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Mary Berry’s Lemon Butterfly Cupcakes Cake

Do you still remember our previous butterfly fairy cakes? If you’re wondering if there’s another rendition of the cake, then you’re in for a delight.

This recipe will show you how you put a twist to the vanilla butterfly fairy cakes and make some lemon butterfly cakes instead. This cupcake butterfly cake recipe is perfect for those who are not too big on sweets and like a bit of tartness in their dessert.

The lemon and lemon zest is not just being put into the frosting but also incorporated into the batter as well! So you will have a more layered flavor of the lemon, creating a pleasant dessert that’s not too sweet.

Total Preparation Time: 40 minutes

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Flying Butterfly Cake

At face value, this cake might seem like any other one we have on the list. But when you open the box, you’ll be surprised with dozens of flying butterflies that almost look like they’re real.

The flying butterfly might be the highlight, but you also have to acknowledge the artistry of the cake theme itself. The maker uses green as the base color of the cake and pink butterflies, so it will look like you’re inside a garden.

Another design element to the cake is the use of gold glitter on the cake that the maker sprayed on. You can emulate this just by simply sprinkling the glitter onto the cake.

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Beautiful Rosette Butterfly Cake

If you would like to keep your cake monochrome colored, this next recipe will delight all the minimalists out there. The light pink cake is adorned with the same colored buttercream rosettes and pink butterflies.

The result is a cake that will please even the pickiest girl because it’s understated and feminine at the same time. You’ll also only be working with buttercream, so that’s another plus for those of you who are beginner bakers out there.

Try customizing the cake and create other monochrome-colored cakes – such as blue, purple, or green.

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Easy Purple Butterfly Cake

Are you a fan of watercolor paintings? This recipe will feature haphazard different-colored buttercream swishes that look almost like watercolor petals that are strewn across the purple cake.

You can start off by making your favorite sponge cake – chocolate, vanilla, or red velvet – the color wouldn’t matter as you’ll be covering it up with the purple buttercream anyway. You will then mix another set of buttercream – light purple, dark purple, and pink.

Start putting the colored buttercream haphazardly onto the cake using a spoon to create the watercolor petals. Lastly, put on some butterfly toppers to take the cake to the next level.

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Butterfly Cake with Spiral Effect

Here’s a classical-looking cake with a very cool color theme – blue and white. The maker will show you how to create a cascading spiral effect butterfly cake in this tutorial.

The cake is a single-tier white cake decorated with different hues of blue buttercream rosettes and blue butterflies. You’ll also be using some white edible pearls as the finishing touches.

This tutorial highlights how the maker guides you through creating different flower piping methods. You’ll see at least three different forms of flowers on this cake. The technique will also be useful for other times you’re baking a cake or cupcakes.

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Cutest Butterfly Cake

If you’d like a simpler butterfly cake, then this one can be something you make at home with your little ones. The tutorial will show you how you can create the cutest butterfly-shaped cake. You read that right.

You’re not going to be using a printout for this one. You’ll be shaping the cake to look like a butterfly! Although it seems difficult, in practice, it’s quite easy. All you do is cut the cake in half, then carve the outside.

We’ll also have so little leftover because the shape of the cake is very efficient. Then decorate the cake using colored fondant to create the wonderful butterfly wings.

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Simple Butterfly Cake

Are you a fan of cotton candy? Then this cotton candy color theme on the next tutorial will drive you crazy. You’ll definitely want to try this at home if you have little ones, especially girls.

The cake is an ombre of pink to blue color. We don’t want to have dark colors, so make sure you create the pastel version of pink and blue buttercream.

Then you want to find some pink and blue butterfly images on the internet and cut them up to create your toppers! Truly a wonderful and simple cake that even beginner bakers can make at home.

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Butterfly Birthday Cake

This is another fun butterfly-shaped cake that you can make at home. The principle is the same as the previous butterfly-shaped cake, but the difference is that this one will also be adorned with yummy candies!

Just think, you can make this into a family activity and ask your kids to help you decorate the butterfly cake! The base is practically the same. You need to cut a round cake into two, then turn them inside out.

After that, cut out the middle of the cake to create the wing shape. Then slather on some buttercream or frosting onto the cake before finishing them with candies and sprinkles as decoration. Don’t forget the marshmallows in the middle as the butterfly’s body!

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Butterfly Shaped Cake

Here’s another tutorial for a butterfly-shaped cake, but this one will be much more reserved and classical compared to the others. The maker created a realistic-looking cake using an ombre color of blue and purple.

Then she added the black lining as the finishing touch. You’ll need to print out a giant butterfly wing to create the cake. This will act as a guide when you’re shaping and carving the cake at the beginning.

You can use just one-half of the wing. Then you’ll have an identical set. Then cover the cake with some buttercream that you’ve made. Lastly, pipe on the black buttercream to create the delicate butterfly wings lining.

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Pink Butterfly Shaped Cake

This is another wonderful rendition of the butterfly-shaped cake using only buttercream. The difference with this cake is that the maker used just one color for the theme – light pink.

Although, keep in mind that you actually need to create three different colored buttercreams for this cake, pink, lighter pink, and brown. The lighter pink will be used as the background color, then the pink itself will be used to create the delicate lining of the butterfly’s wings.

You can customize the theme using your favorite colors, such as purple, blue, or green. This is an easily adjustable, fun cake.

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Fondant Butterfly Cake

This is another pink-shaped butterfly cake, but the difference is that this cake will be decorated with fondant.

Fondant is an ingredient that is more user-friendly than buttercream because you can shape and carve it just like you’re playing with playdoh. With buttercream, you need to get it right the first time, or you’ll be scraping off your design and starting from scratch.

The cake base is covered in buttercream, and you’ll decorate it with fondant to create detailed butterfly wings. This creates a three-dimensional effect you haven’t seen in the other cakes, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the result.

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Buttercream Butterfly Cake

This is a cute, colorful, butterfly-shaped cake with blue wings and a green center. The cake is made with some basic vanilla sponge cakes shaped into butterfly wings.

The technique is still the same as previous ones – you’ll cut a circle in half, then shape the cake’s sides into butterfly wings. Cover the entire cake using some buttercream to create the base. The maker decided to use a sky blue color for the base.

Then start piping on the details with other colors on buttercream. The maker used pink, green, yellow, and white for the body. But it’s entirely up to you if you want to create other color themes.

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Fresh Cream Butterfly Shaped cake

This next butterfly-shaped cake is a clever one, complete with its antennae. The color theme of this cake is kept simple – blue, white, and black. You will start making the cake by baking the base cake. You will then shape it using the half-circle technique.

Cut the circle in half, turn it inside out, then carve the edges to create the butterfly wings. Then you will cover the entire cake with a light blue color and then draw on the black detailing for its wings.

Don’t forget the dollop of whites on the edges of the wings. You will also draw on its antennae using the black buttercream on the base of the cake. The result is a very realistic-looking cake you’ll be proud to call your creation.

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