Butterflies and Cross Christening Cupcakes

We made some cupcakes for a very cool mom this weekend. The christening was for her daughter and her son told us he wanted butterflies on the cupcakes! How cute is that request? So of course we're making cute butterflies fluttering around the crosses!

To make tiny fondant butterflies, we:

1. Used food colour gel to tint the fondant to the desire shade.
2. Rolled the fondant smoothly to a thickness of about 3-4mm.
3. We don't have a butterfly cutter, so we used a tiny cookie cutter we had in the shape of a club:
   
   
   
4. Of course we had to cut off the extra section of the club shape. We did this twice for one butterfly.
5. Now, you know that extra section of that we sliced off? We used this for the body of the butterfly. Knead the fondant for the body and attach the two wings by pinching the underside.
6. Let your butterflies dry on one side of the wings.

Pink butterflies on pink vanilla buttercream.

Vanilla and Chocolate

Pink butterflies and crosses on vanilla buttercream and chocolate cupcakes.