Every third Sunday, my church has a fellowship dinner for it's congregation.
Various church members bring basically enough food to feed a small army. You name it, it's probably served... Meatloaf, Home-made Chicken & Noodles
(yum), all types of salads from green ones to potato salad,vegetables, plus any sort of desserts from pies to brownies and really anything else anybody cares to bring.
Where am I going with this you ask?
Well, me being in rather a creative mood and wanting to bring a dish that
hopefully noone else was bringing decided that I would make a cake. And not just any old sheetcake would do... I had to go an attempt to make a butterfly cake.
told ya i was in a creative mood ;)
I found an old cardboard recipe,several in fact, which were basic sheetcakes that were cut and decorated into things. One was a swan, another was a rockinghorse and then there was a butterfly. So I decided that the butterfly looked to be the easiest to make and I was off. I didn't have too hard of a time but I had to improvise a little as my recipe didn't mention specific dimensions. I discovered my cake was a little too big so I only used about half of it instead. It still turned out o.k. so it wasn't a
complete disaster. :)
The final result :
It's suppose to be a monarch butterfly.... I suppose it's not too bad for someone who has never really decorated a cake before.
Merc
