Butterfly Cake Recipe
I love baking with the girls - they love helping to weigh out the ingredients and stir the mixture and we all love eating the results!
This week we made a Butterfly Cake and instead of using butter we used the new Stork with Butter which is supposed to help make light, buttery cakes.
The recipe can be found on their website but I have reproduced it here too...
Ingredients
250g Stork with Butter
250g Caster Sugar
4 Large eggs
250g Self Raising Flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
for the icing...
150g Stork with Butter
300g icing sugar (sifted)
Food colouring
ยฝ teaspoon vanilla extract
Method
Cream the stork with the sugar, then add the eggs one at a time. Mix in the flour and fold into a buttered and lined 8 inch cake pan. Cook on 160 degrees for 60 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.ย Leave to cool on a wire rack. Remove from the tin when cold.
Mix the stork, icing sugar, vanilla and any colours to make the icing. Cut the cake into slices according to the template found here and arrange in a butterfly shape.
Decorate as you choose with the icing, adding sprinkles if you like.
Here is our effort...what do you think?
I think the cake turned out lovely using Stork instead of butter, but I would maybe stick to real butter for the icing - although this version was nice enough.
Disclosure - I was compensated for the cost of the ingredients for the purpose of this post.ย
Welshmumof3boys says
This looks fab and sounds so easy, will defiantly give it a go ๐
Kerry norris says
Wow they look fab. Very well decorated. We'll have to try the stork alternative next time we are baking x
linda hobbis says
Lovely cake. I might try this with Caitlin - anything pink involving butterflies is a firm favourite and she enjoys baking too.
Cardiff Mummy Says - Cathryn says
Mmm, you're making me hungry! We always use Stork when making birthday cakes as it gives such a light and fluffy flavour. Great to see the new with butter version too. x
Kate + says
Ooo this looks lovely. I need cake now!x
Claire says
Ooh this look delicious. Rebecca made a butterfly cake in the middle but she cut it into two not four- this looks a lot more butterfly like so we'll do it this way next time! Thanks x
Ojo Henley says
I love making cake, but on my own, the boys get in the way! Haha. I love the shape of this, what a brilliant, yet simple, idea xx
Leanne Cornelius says
This is an amazing effort, it looks great, well done!
Jess Helicopter says
Lovely cake shape. I always wonder whether i should try margarine instead of butter because my cakes are always quite heavy. But I think i get put off by the icing being made with marg. But that's silly cos as you say, you could just do cake with marg and icing with butter. Might do this cake for Joni's birthday next week. Thanks lovely!
Alana says
That cake looks amazing! I wish I had the patience to bake!