Today I’m going to show you how I made this bug-themed birthday cake for my daughter Avalon’s 3rd birthday party. She loves all things bug-themed right now: caterpillars, butterflies, snails, slugs, but I drew the line at spiders. 🙂
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to make not 1, not 2, but 3 mushroom cakes that are fully sculpted from actual cake. You’ll learn how to make the beautiful, gravity-defying butterfly with gelatin wings, modeling chocolate snails, a hand-painted caterpillar, and some pretty details that finish the whole cake off.
My bug-loving girl loved this birthday cake and I think you will too!
1:59:11 Minutes of Instruction
- How to create a butterfly topper with wings painted with edible watercolor
- Liz’s way of tiling the tiers for the mushroom cakes
- How to sculpt snails and a caterpillar
- Learn how to make 3 different sizes of mushroom cakes
- Painting the butterfly wings 0:55
- Assembling wings 6:26
- Large mushroom structure 9:24
- Medium mushroom structure 14:45
- Small mushroom structure 18:12
- Prepping cake structure 20:53
- Bulking up stalks 23:48
- Stacking the cakes 26:33
- Building the butterfly structure 38:26
- Bulking up the body 43:51
- Detailing the butterfly 45:45
- Sculpting the snail body 1:01:42
- Sculpting the shell 1:11:34
- Final details 1:16:06
- Sculpting the caterpillar body 1:26:46
- Painting the caterpillar 1:31:37
- Final details 1:39:52
- Paneling the mushroom stalks 1:41:54
- Painting the mushrooms 1:45:00
- Finishing the mushroom caps 1:48:22
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