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Chocolate Butterfly Cake Hack

January 11, 2022

We are still taking things slowly over here. I don’t know what it is, but this year I cannot get my head back into “busy mode”. I read something before about having seasons in our lives and I think that January might be my slow season, to take a bit of a break and rest and get myself back on to top form. With all this in mind, weekends are back to being for baking. The girls and I made this butterfly cake and they were so impressed. It’s soooo simple to make and would make an excellent birthday cake too! You can see a Reel of how I assembled it here and you can find the recipe below!

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Chocolate Butterfly Cake Hack

Servings: 12 servings

Ingredients

  • 200 g self raising flour
  • 225 g caster sugar
  • 25 g cocoa powder
  • 100 g butter
  • 2 medium eggs
  • 5 tbsp milk
  • 5 tbsp water
  • 1 tub chocolate frosting
  • 3 bags smarties
  • 1 bag giant chocolate buttons

Instructions

  • Pre-heat the oven to 180C/Gas 4.
  • Grease 2 20cm sandwich tins and line. Don’t use a loose bottomed tin as the mixture will run out.
  • In a bowl combine flour, sugar, salt and cocoa. Rub in the butter until breadcrumbs form.
  • Beat the eggs with the milk and add to the dry ingredients. Mix until well combined.
  • Place the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
  • Leave to cool completely. Once cool, slice the cake into 3. One section down the middle and two halves. Do this to the other cake too.
  • Then place the curved side against the rectangular middle of cake. Cut out a small triangle into the straight edge of the cake half. This gives you the butterfly wings.
  • Assemble the cake with chocolate icing and spread over the top. Use giant chocolate buttons for the butterfly's middle and two broken in half for the antennas.
  • Then fill the cake with smarties, trying to match the pattern on each side!
  • And ta-da one super simple butterfly cake.

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Cathryn Wood

Hey there. It's nice to meet you. I'm Cathryn, a Mama, Wife, Blogger & Photographer. Catch up with all our adventures, recipes and tales motherhood.

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