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Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Beautiful Butterfly Cupcake Tutorial. We will be showing
you how to make this beautiful butterfly cupcake, perfect for a garden party, a kids' party.
You can make them by themselves or you can theme together with our very hungry caterpillar
and our beautiful rose garden cupcakes to make a lovely assortment. We do have tutorials
on both of these other cupcakes on our YouTube channel so if you hit the Subscribe button
you will be able to have a look at all the other tutorials we have and learn how to make
a great assortment of different cupcakes and cakepops.
Tools and equipment that we will be using today:
I have a licorice strap, so just a strap of licorice.
I have some chocolate freckles or chocolate jewels, essentially just a chocolate button
with some hundreds and thousands on top. I have a few different size M&Ms for this
tutorial. To be specific, I have 1 peanut M&M, 2 mini M&Ms and 4 normal-sized regular
M&Ms. I have a little bit of melted chocolate. You
don't need much melted chocolate. It'll just do a little bit of sticking for us.
I have a standard pair of kitchen scissors. I have some of our perfectly pipeable buttercream
frosting which I've colored green. You can choose whichever color you like to compliment
the theme of your party. If you are having trouble with your buttercream frosting, we
have a tutorial (Inaudible 01:31) great recipe and shows you how to achieve that perfectly
pipeable consistency. I have a standard cupcake. I've gone with
chocolate today. I have just a sandwich bag or a snack bag.
That buttercream frosting I've pre-filled into a disposable piping bag and I'm using
that in conjunction with this Loyal number 20 piping nozzle, quite a big round open head
on that nozzle. So let's get started.
As I mentioned, I've pre-filled my piping bag. As always with our piping bags, make
sure that you bring that icing all the way down 'til it's coming out the end of your
piping nozzle there because you don't want to have a big air bubble explosion. I'm just
going to pipe our perfect low swirls starting in the center working my way out to the edge
of the cupcake. If you are having trouble achieving that lovely
low swirl, we have a whole tutorial dedicated just to that swirl which will definitely help
you out. Alright, now for our butterfly, our peanut
M&M is going to be our butterfly's head so we want to position that up at the front of
the butterfly, sort of sitting up a little bit so that it's facing out. And then we want
to take our normal-sized M&Ms. You can see I've got a little bit of a color scheme that
I like to stick with but you can use any colors you like. I'm going to go red, orange, yellow,
green, blue. I just like the way that looks together. That's the body. And then I'm going
to take the 2 mini M&Ms just so that body tapers off into a nice little tail. There
we go. Alright, now for the wings of our butterfly,
we're going to take 2 of our chocolate freckles and I'm just going to pop them quite far forward
up around the head standing up. You see that buttercream frosting, that lovely consistency
just holds them nice and firm. For the back wings, because they are a little bit smaller,
we'll take another freckle and I'm just going to snap it in half. I'm going to take those
ones and I'm just going to slide them in towards the back.
Now for our little antennae, we are going to take just a tiny tiny bit of this licorice
strap and my kitchen scissors. You're really only just using the smallest amount so if
you've got children, husbands, animals, they'll be lucky to get your leftover licorice. I'm
just going to take...I've cut about that much. I'm going to cut that in half again. Lovely!
So you've just got 2 nice little fine antennas there. Just stick those antennas on. I'm going
to dip them in a little bit of chocolate. This is possibly the most painstaking part
of this tutorial. So we're going to dip them in a little bit of a chocolate. And I'm just
going to hold it on that mini M&M. I'm going to support that there with my fingers just
until that chocolate dries. That's going to take about 10 seconds. You do need to support
it until the chocolate dries or else it will fall. There we go. So our other one... There
we go. Like I said, it's a bit painstaking if you've got slightly shaky fingers. Beautiful!
Now finally, I'm just going to do a little face on our butterfly. I'm going to take that
sandwich bag. Just pop a little bit of that chocolate in there. Just the bag... Just scoop
it out. We don't need very much. We're just going to push that all the way down to one
of the corners. And then I'm going to cut just the tiniest little bit of the corner
of the bag. See there? Just the smallest little corner so we can do a bit of detail work.
Pick up our beautiful butterfly and then I'm just going to clean the edge of that so you're
starting with a nice fresh edge. One eye, one eye, and a cute little smile. If you find
that your chocolate is setting at the end of that, just give it a quick wipe off with
your fingers. And there's your little smile. So there we have our beautiful butterfly cupcake
without really any tools or equipment, apart from our piping bag and a nozzle, just a few
candies. Sure to impress. Thanks very much for watching!