Butterflies, Ladybugs and
Flower Baby Shower Cakes
Adorable DIY ladybug, butterfly and flower baby shower cakes!
If you are planning a baby shower with a flower garden theme (full of cute ladybugs, flowers, butterflies, dragonflies, etc) - we've got some adorable cakes for you to see.
Flower baby shower cakes are cakes that are decorated with flowers or have a flower theme. These cakes can be made in a variety of shapes and sizes, and can be made from traditional cake ingredients such as flour, sugar, and eggs, or from alternative ingredients such as gluten-free flour or vegan substitutes.
The flowers used to decorate the cake can be made from frosting, fondant, or real flowers. Some popular flower designs for baby shower cakes include roses, daisies, and lilies.
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Garden Party Baby Shower Cake
by Kimberly Rivers
(Falkville, Al, USA)
I made a 10"- 8"- 6" yellow cake. All are frosted with butter cream icing that I tinted green.
I frosted it with a look of mountain type green by taking a knife and pulling away from the cake at different spots.
Most flowers are made with a fondant by a press that has a flower shape. All other flowers I hand made.
The
ladies bugs are made of fondant, tinted red and then I used a very thin
floral wire that I painted with black food coloring paste as well as
the dots on the lady bug. The bees are made of fondant as well.
I
stuck the wings in with toothpicks. I painted the eyes and stripes
with black food coloring as well and then took the bottom of a cake tip
to indent the smile on the mouth. The bow was made of fondant.
I used a paper towel roll covered with parchment paper to shape the bow.
The
little sign on the bottom was made of fondant and I used food writers
to write the baby's name on it. The butterflies are picks.
Blooming Baby Rose Cupcakes
by Maria R
(Wichita, Kansas)
Blooming Baby Rose Cupcakes...
1st PLACE WINNER IN OUR CAKE CONTEST!
These
little cupcakes were made for a garden themed shower for a baby girl
(whose name will be Rose). These little cakes are my original design and
100% edible. Most guests enjoyed the cupcakes and saved the roses and
baby as a memento as she was just too cute to eat.
The cupcake
measures a little over 3 1/2 across inches by about 2 1/2 inches high.
The rose, the baby and the leaves are all made of hand sculpted fondant
which was tinted with food coloring to create the pastel colors. The
tiny white flowers were made of royal icing. The parents wedding song
was "All you need is love" these words are stamped on a leaf on the
side of the cupcake.
The actual cupcake is carrot cake with tiny chocolate chips (combination of mom's favorite cravings).
It was a little time consuming but such a fun project to make!
Daisy & Butterfly Flower Baby Shower Cake
by Rebecca Lee
(Lugoff, SC, USA)
For this Daisy & Butterfly Baby Cake I decided to do (4) 9 inch
layers with alternating chocolate and sour cream pound cake.
The
filling was vanilla butter cream and I used homemade fondant to cover
the cake and for the decorations. I made the flowers, baby, baby
blanket, butterflies and letters in advance.
For the flowers, I
used homemade fondant colored with pale yellow, pink, and some I left
white. I also colored a little of the fondant orange for the inside of
the flowers.
I used a gum paste daisy cut out and then shaped
them with a flower tool with the ball end and used a toothpick to indent
the petals. I let them dry on wax paper dusted with cornstarch.
I
then pinched tiny pieces of the orange fondant and rolled them. I
placed a few of these inside each flower, attaching with fondant
adhesive (fondant thinned with water), and let them dry.
I used
fondant with a little green coloring to make the leaves. I cut them out
with a leaf shaped cut out and then used a toothpick to indent the
leaves. I put them on wax paper dusted with cornstarch to dry.
For
the baby, I colored the fondant with a little of the light copper
color. I rolled out the head and the nose and used fondant colored with
black coloring to make the eyes, and the hair. I also made a pink bow
for the hair.
I attached the hair, the bow. the nose and the
eyes with fondant adhesive. I then used the copper colored fondant to
make the shape of the baby body. I attached the head to the body with
fondant adhesive. I made the blanket with pink fondant. I used a
fondant rolling tool with attachment to make the design on the blanket.
Then
I used a fork to do the edges of the blanket. I attached the blanket
to the baby with fondant adhesive. For the butterflies, I used a
butterfly cut out and then let them dry in a concave tray.
After
they were dry I used a brush to dust them with pink and yellow pearl
dust. Then I made the letters using fondant colored with pale pink,
powder blue, light green and light yellow.
I used letter cut
outs to make the letters. The next day I baked the cakes, stacked them
with the icing, shaped them and put a crumb coat on. The final day I
rolled out white fondant and covered the cake.
I added all of the decorations using fondant adhesive. I think it turned out terrific!
Pink & Brown Ladybug Cake
by Regina Karish
(Modesto, Ca US)
I made this Pink Baby Lady Bug Cake for a friends Baby Shower.
This is a two tier cake with butter-cream frosting as the filling and fondant on top. It is an all white cake.
Lady Bug on top is made of fondant. On the cake I wrote "Welcoming the little Lady".
They
didn't have a name picked out yet so I thought that would be the
perfect saying to go with the cake. This cake was one of the easiest
cakes I have made.
Garden Ladybug Baby Shower Cake
by Amanda
(Murfreesboro, TN)
Ladybug Garden Flower Baby Shower Cake
This cake is white almond sour cream cake. The recipe can be found on Cakecentral.com the filling is standard butter cream.
It
is frosted in butter cream then covered in fondant with both fondant
and butter cream decorations. The ladybug pillars are solid fondant and
doweled with wooden dowels so that the top cake does not smoosh the
ladybugs or the bottom tier.
The fondant flowers were cut out
and dried overnight in mini baking cups so they dried in a 3-d position.
The baby was hand sculpted using fondant as well. This is by far my
favorite cake I have made.
Ladybug Baby Shower Cake
by Jennifer
(Vancouver Washington)
This Adorable Ladybug Baby Shower Cake Was The 1st Place Winner in Our Cake Contest!
I
made a regular sheet cake for the base. I used a half oval pan to make
the cake for the body and a small metal bowl to bake the cake for the
head.
I then covered the body with butter cream frosting and a thin layer of fondant.
For
the head I placed a thin layer of fondant over the face of an Anne
Geddes ladybug doll to get the details of the face and let it dry.
Next I placed the dried form to the head piece of the cake and covered the rest with black fondant to make the mask.
I made pink flowers out of fondant and sprinkled edible fairy dust on them to make them sparkle.
The sign in the back reads; "With a butterfly kiss and a ladybug hug, sleep tight little one like a bug in a rug." This cake was a big hit at my friends baby shower!
Cute Pastel Flower Baby Shower Cake
by Christine
(Reedley, CA)
Pastel Flower Baby Shower Cake
For this 3 Tier Pastel Flower Baby Shower Cake I used fondant for all three tiers, and fondant daisies. And a Fondant Bow for top!
by Barbara
(Graham WA)
Baby In Flower With Butterflies & Lady bugs Cake
My first Baby Shower cake, It was made for my grand daughter.
It
was made with 2 8 inch rounds for the bottom, and 2 6 inch oval for
the top. The baby's theme was butterflies and lady bugs.
So the cake had butterflies going up the side, with a lady bug at each top of each drop strings.
The
frosting is butter cream. The Baby, Lady bugs, Butterflies, flower,
& leaves were made out of a fondant & gum paste mixture.
The baby was a mold, & the butterflies was from molds. The lady bugs, flower & leaves was hand made.
The butter cream frosting was made very smooth to look like fondant.
Chocolate Pink Flower Cake
by Merrit Alve
(Dallas, TX)
My friend wanted a simple cake that looked elegant. I did a chocolate cake with chocolate fondant and fondant flowers. The cake was very simple, but quite well received. Sometimes less is more.
Colorful Flower Cake
Fly, Love and Sing Flower Baby Shower Cake
I made the Fly, Love and Sing Baby Shower Cake as a shower present for a close friend.
I used a beautiful painting that she has hanging in her nursery as inspiration for the cake.
I
stared with an 8", 6" and 4" round cake. Once baked and cooled, I
torted them and used Nutella buttercream and fresh strawberries as the
filling for each tier.
I used vanilla buttercream to dirty ice all three cakes before I covered them in a lemon yellow homemade marshmallow fondant.
I
created the bow, flowers and font with gumpaste. Once set on the cake I
further embellished with lots of hand painted detail.
I used a
fine paintbrush and gel color to paint the center of the flowers, the
hearts, leaves, vines, white polka dot accents and detail on the birds.
This Fly, Love and Sing Flower Baby Shower Cake is unique from the norm but meant the world to the mother-to-be.
She started to cry when she saw it because it immediately made her sentimental as she thought about her beautiful nursery.
In the mother's words " I hope my baby girl will fly, love and sing!"
Amanda Hershberg
Sitka, AK
Baby Shower Flower Cupcakes
by Melody
(Twin Falls, Idaho)
Spring Baby Shower Flower Cupcakes
I made the baby face flowers out of fondant. I dyed the fondant and cut it out with a daisy cutter.
I
took the peach fondant and rolled it into little balls then made the
eyes and mouth with the end of a straw. I poked a hole for the nose and
attached a very small ball of fondant with vanilla flavoring.
After
the flowers had dried a little, I then shaped them around the faces in
two layers. I had to take them out of town so I put them in egg cartons
to transport.
The leaves are green fondant made with a cutter and a toothpick to draw the veins on.
Flower Baby Shower Cakes
Elegant Butterfly Cake
Flower Baby Shower Cakes by Kristin
(Taunton)
Two Tiered Welcome Baby "Ava" Cake
Detailed Instructions and how-to-tips:
1. Lay out all pans and spray with non- stick coating.
2.
Mix and bake cakes as directed by a recipe. In this case I used Lemon
Cake with Lemon curd.But any kind will do. I baked 2, 10" layers, and 2,
8" layers.
3. Allow ample time to cool. Meanwhile I cut a name
plaque, loops for the bow, and butterflies out of fondant, and set them
aside to dry. Then either make or use prepared frosting to lightly coat
the cake.
4. Cut dowel rods and evenly space them in the center of the bottom layers, for support.
5.
Roll out Fondant evenly, on a very clean surface, large enough to cover
the cake. For the bottom layer I embossed a butterfly pattern before I
applied it to the cake.
6. Use frosting to apply the bow, name
plaque and butterflies to the cake. Place ribbon along the bottom of the
cake. And you're done :)
Butterfly Baby Shower Cake
by Kaila
(West Palm Beach, FL)
This cake was made with a Red Velvet 12" round, and White 8" round. I used regular buttercream for the filling.
The
butterflies were made a week in advance with Butterfly Veining Sheets. I
used Knox Gelatin, and food coloring to get the desired colors. When
the gelatin is ready you brush a light layer over the individual
butterfly. I made sure to put some gelatin between the wings so when
they were dry you could bend them. Once they dry they come off the mold
by themselves. I used scissors and cut off the extra gelatin. I then
used a confectionery sugar and water mix and painted the outside of the
wings, and sprinkled disco dust on them, and voila....butterflies.
I
covered the cakes in white fondant. To attach the butterflies, I put a
small amount of buttercream where I wanted the butterfly, placed the
butterfly, and then added more between the wings to make it look like a
body. That's it!
