Decorate cake on the fly! All you need is a spoon and baking cocoa.
Butterfly Stencil Cake
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 2 hr 45 min
- Servings 12
- Ingredients 10
Ingredients
- 2 1/3 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 cup milk
- 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons poppy seed
- 1 tub (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Lemon Frosting or 1 tub (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Vanilla Frosting
- About 2 tablespoons unsweetened baking cocoa
- Sliced almonds, if desired

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan with shortening; lightly flour.
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Step2In large bowl, beat all ingredients except poppy seed, frosting, cocoa and candies with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Stir in poppy seed. Pour into pan.
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Step3Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until cakes springs back when touched lightly in center. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour 30 minutes. Place on serving platter. Spread frosting on top and sides of cake.
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Step4For butterfly design, hold handle of large wooden spoon crosswise over center of frosted cake (hold spoon close to cake); sift cocoa over handle to form outline of butterfly body. Hold bowl of spoon over cake at angle to butterfly body; sift cocoa over edge of bowl of spoon to form outline of wing part. Repeat to form 3 remaining wing parts. Decorate with almonds.
Nutrition
490
Calories
23g
Total Fat
5g
Protein
66g
Total Carbohydrate
44g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 490
- Calories from Fat
- 210
- Total Fat
- 23g
- 35%
- Saturated Fat
- 10g
- 50%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 85mg
- 28%
- Sodium
- 340mg
- 14%
- Potassium
- 105mg
- 3%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 66g
- 22%
- Dietary Fiber
- 1g
- 4%
- Sugars
- 44g
- Protein
- 5g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 10%
- 10%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 10%
- 10%
- Iron
- 10%
- 10%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 3 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 4 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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