Everything About Ladybugs!

My sister and I made this cake together as well as the mini ladybug cupcakes for my daughter’s 10th birthday per her request as she is my lil’ ladybug…

We made the sheet cake in layers using white icing that we dyed a vibrant purple color in between. My sister cut the sheet cake to be a leaf-like design and then we chose our green to add to white icing and iced the sheet cake (after all cakes cooled off of course). After that, we placed a round cake (already cut to shape with a knife and patience… and iced red with the no taste food dye) we made on top of the sheet cake towards one corner.

Using black sheet fondant (you can buy in any store) my sister covered the “tail” and “head” of the ladybug. Meanwhile we used different food colorings, added to more white icing, to color for the cupcakes.  Using (any tip you prefer) I piped out the tops of all the cupcakes and then used the smallest tip to pipe the line down the “back” of each ladybug cupcake with black icing including a black “head” and 3-4 dot/bursts on each “wing”.

Neither one of us was up to piping out flowers between soccer games and field trips so I bought pre-made flowers and butterfly wings. Between taking turns piping out the designs, leaves, and finishing touches to the ladybug; we added black m&m’s for the dots, blue ones for the “eyes” and colorful ones randomly on the cake along with placing the wings along the base of the sheet cake and flowers around the main thing.

All in all, we just let creativity lead us down whichever road it wanted to take us. As a finishing touch, I used red sugar crystals on the main ladybug to make her glimmer; and my sister used the colorful edible sprinkles/beads to give texture to the leaf.

Hopefully, if you want to do this, this cake included 5 funfetti cake mixes, about 7 white icings, 2 black tube icings, another cake mix for the cupcakes, whatever food colorings you choose, and lots of laughter with a friend to do this with…

Ladybug Cake idea was kindly submitted by Bianca T., Kentucky.
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