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Butterfly Garden Party

Throw a colourful butterfly themed party for your little one. We give you all the tips.

To assemble the Butterfly Cake:

Preheat oven to 180°C.
Grease and line three heart shaped cake tins.
Place butter or margarine in a bowl and sift in the dry ingredients.
Add eggs, milk, water and vanilla essence.
Beat for four minutes with an electric mixer. Lastly add the vermicelli and carefully mix into the cake batter.
Spoon mixture into the prepared cake tins.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until skewer comes out clean.

To assemble the Butterfly Cake:

Cream together the butter and icing sugar, using an electric mixer, until soft and fluffy and light. Add a few drops of boiling water to get the correct consistency.
Place two of the heart shaped cakes onto a cake board or serving platter and position them to be the top two butterfly wings. Cut the remaining heart into two smaller bottom wings, by forming a tear drop shape from each half. You will be left with a triangular piece of excess cake. Cut this into a circle for the butterfly’s head. Click here for a easy to follow diagram.
Ice the cake with a thin layer of white icing first.
Divide the remaining icing into 4 portions. Colour two portions yellow and the other portions peachy orange and then a darker shade of peachy orange.
Place the first colour, yellow, into a piping bag fitted with a plain round nozzle. Make a neat row of dots along the base of the wing. Use a teaspoon to pull each dot upwards and then continue layer after layer, changing the colour as you progress into the centre of the butterfly.
Lastly, starting below the head, ice a large dot and pull it to join the next and so forth to form the body and to cover all the joins in the centre.
Ice the head and make the eyes using the two googly eyes or sweets and pipe cleaners for the feelers.
Decorate with silver balls.

Let the children come dressed up with fairy or butterfly wings. You could also purchase some as take home gifts.
Face painting is a wonderful activity for this party as the children’s faces can be transformed into butterflies.
Have a treasure hunt in the garden. Hide butterfly cut-outs all over your garden. They can be placed on trees or in flowers. Give each child a net or bucket to collect them in.

SPAR makes it easy for you: Buy a SPAR Freshline Pavlova. Fill it with SPAR cream (whipped) and freshly sliced SPAR Freshline kiwi fruit.
Put out some tall glasses and a large jug filled with water, ice, fresh mint and slices of lemon tall glasses so the mums can help themselves.
SPAR Deli will make up platters for you. All you need to do is pre-order and collect. Pick up a leaflet at your nearest SPAR.

Print out our beautiful butterfly invitations, and download the free party printables and bunting.
Use pretty bright plastic or paper cups and colourful mismatched plates and bowls.
Collect fresh, brightly coloured garden flowers (we used hibiscus) and scatter on the party table.
Use lots of large balloons to create instant colour.
If you do not have three heart shaped tins, split the mixture and bake one or two at a time.