Photo Gallery: Party cakes made simple

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1. Arrange 20 cupcakes on a cake board in roughly the shape of a butterfly.
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2. Attach the outer cupcakes to the board using dollops of buttercream icing.
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3. Use an open coupler to outline the edges of the outer cupcakes with white buttercream icing.
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4. Ice the cupcakes using a circular motion and an open coupler.
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5. Smooth the icing with a spatula, and airbrush pink around the edges of the outer cupcakes.
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6. To form the butterflyﾒs wings, pipe four large lavender ovals using an open coupler. Add blue ovals inside the lavender followed by yellow to fill in the remaining space.
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7. Use a cut paper tube and white icing to overpipe the blue portion of the wings, and add a line down the middle of the white oval.
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8. Pipe a V at the top of the wing and two hearts below with a cut paper tube.
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9. Pipe two elongated heart shapes on each of the butterflyﾒs wings with a cut paper tube.
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10. With an open coupler, pipe pink discs of icing down the center of the cake, starting with a large disc for the head and then decreasing in size as you pipe the body. Smooth the icing for the butterflyﾒs head with a spatula.
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11. Pipe random white dots along the butterflyﾒs body using a cut paper tube. Then, add two white dots on the head for eyes. Add facial details with dark blue icing using a cut paper tube.
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12. Use white chocolate to pipe two antennae; let dry.
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13. Insert the two antennae into the cupcake above the butterflyﾒs head. With a cut paper tube, overpipe them with dark blue icing. Then, add two lighter blue dots at the tip. If needed, you can pipe a message on the cake board to finish the design.
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1. Arrange 23 cupcakes for a crown cake. Adhere the outer cupcakes by piping a dollop of buttercream icing on the bottom.
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2. Use an open coupler to outline the cupcakes, and ice each one using a circular motion. Smooth the icing with a spatula, and airbrush pink around the edge of the shape. Pipe an outline of a trapezoid with pink icing using an open coupler. Fill in the shape by piping lines of icing.
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3. Smooth the pink icing, and pipe a purple crown with an open coupler; smooth the purple icing. Use a cut paper tube to pipe ﾓPrincessﾔ in dark blue icing. Dot the ﾓiﾔ with a piped yellow star.
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4. Outline the pink trapezoid and purple crown with dark pink icing using a cut paper tube. Then, add curlicues around the edges of the pink trapezoid. With an open coupler, pipe three pink flowers on the purple crown, and top each point of the crown with a dot of pink icing.
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5. Add purple centers to the flowers using an open coupler. Pipe dark blue accents to the crown using a cut paper tube. Place silver dragees in the center of each flower, on each crown point and on the pink curlicues. Sprinkle the entire design with edible glitter.
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