Ingredients: 2
- square cake pan 4 eggs each (28 cm dish)
- 200 grams of pink and white marshmallows for sugar paste (or want) to be prepared the day before making the cake
- 2 packs of candy colored
- 600 grams of sugar (always better to have available a bit 'more)
- apricot jam or glaze normal
- coconut flour for the lawn
- green food coloring
- baking paper
- a large rectangular tray
Cake: Prepare 2
square sponge cake (cut out the best), simple or chocolate but not too high and let cool.
Draw on a piece of parchment paper kite butterfly the size you want.
Appuntatela on sponge cake with two sticks, keeping the side (so you can take advantage of all the surface) and cut around with a serrated knife.
Cut, then, a rectangular shape for the body, high just over the wings and a width of about 5 cm.
Carefully cut the sponge cake in half and stuff as you like (always wet with a little 'sugar water the two halves of the sponge), ricomponetelo and refrigerate for an hour.
assembled:
Prepare the glaze (or jam) to adhere to the sugar paste cake butterfly.
begin to roll out the dough sugar-white wings, bearing in hand the icing sugar to the dough does not make you stick to your hands.
Take the cake from refrigerator and sprinkle with icing, then gently roll the dough on the rolling pin to help you put sugar on the cake.
The mixture should leave the outside edges of about 1 cm to be tucked under the cake.
Smooth dough gently with your hands to make it adhere well to the sweet. Arrange
directly on the serving platter.
Repeat with the other wing and body (using the paste pink).
Decorations:
To make your eyes you can use triangles of white body with a central ball of dough rose, for the antennas divided in half a stick covered with green colored sugar paste.
Arrange the pieces directly on the pan side by side and decorate with candy (apply to wet the underside with a little bit 'of water).
Pour the coconut flour colored green to make grass and flowers have made with the scraps of dough and cookie cutters.
Tips: The
cake butterfly like all the cakes under the cover of sugar, is very sensitive to summer heat that makes it difficult to handle sugar paste, and apply the colored candies so whether you eat at home or going out must be transported to organize so that you can always move in a refrigerated environment and keep an adequate space in the fridge for future storage.
The part of the cake with wishes written may change for the parents present, basting with a little 'liquor diluted with water and sugar.
Put in refrigerator until ready to bring to the table.