Think Spring with Candy Butterfly Cupcakes

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

Butterfly Pattern

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Bake Cupcakes. Prepare cake mix according to recipe instructions. Bake and cool cupcakes in white cupcake liners.
Make Butterflies. Print butterfly template. Place on cake board and cover with parchment paper.
Melt 1 cup white Candy Melts candy according to package instructions. Using Blue candy color, tint candy light blue.
Prepare decorating bag with melted blue candy; cut ¼ in. tip off end of bag.
Following template, pipe wings with melted candy; sprinkle immediately with nonpareils. Move template, keeping pattern under parchment paper, and pipe as many wings as needed. Chill until set, about 5 to 10 minutes.
Tint Icing. Combine Christmas Red, Pink and Violet icing colors to get red color shown. Combine Creamy Peach, Ivory and Pink icing colors to get coral color shown. Combine Rose with a touch of Violet icing colors to get pink color shown. Combine Violet with a touch of Rose icing colors to get purple color shown.
Tint 1½ cups icing each red, coral, pink and purple using color combinations provided. Reserve remaining icing white.
Prepare four decorating bags with tip 1M. Fill separately with red, orange, pink and purple icing.
Fill decorating bag with white icing. Cut 1 ½ in. off end of bag.
Decorate Cupcakes Combine small amounts of all sprinkles in a shallow bowl.
Using white icing, pipe rosette on each cupcake; roll in sprinkle mix to coat. Alternating colors, pipe either a red, coral, pink or purple rosette on each sprinkle-covered cupcake. Top with candy butterfly wings, pushing centers of wings into icing at an angle.

Notes

How To

How to Pipe A Rosette
Learn how to pipe beautiful rosettes, big and small, to add charming floral accents. Rosettes are a great way to create quick decorations. Different tips create different petal effects. Rosettes can be used to add a simple floral accent to a dessert, or cover a cake and cupcakes.
How to Pipe a Cupcake Swirl
Wondering how to frost cupcakes with a cute little swirl? Here is a quick way to decorate cakes and cupcakes. It just takes minutes to pipe a fancy iced swirl and add colorful sprinkles. Learn how to make a swirl using a 1M star tip as well as tips 2A and 2D.