Butterfly Cakes in Bracknell
Two quite different cakes share this name. The one a bakery makes is a celebration cake with butterflies on it, from £100 for a 6-inch.
The other is the butterfly bun — a fairy cake with wings cut from its own top — and that is a home bake rather than something to order. Both are explained below, the second with the method, because it is genuinely the better answer for a school fair.
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What does a butterfly cake cost?
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
6" butterfly cake Wings in sugar or printed, on a cake in the colours you choose 8–12 portions | £100 |
8" butterfly cake Wings in sugar or printed, on a cake in the colours you choose 14–18 portions | £130 |
12 cupcakes with wings £6 each, minimum 6 of a flavour 12 cakes | £72 |
Printed wings come from a sugar sheet at £20; hand-cut sugar butterflies are quoted with the design. Cupcakes are the closest thing here to a butterfly bun, and the designs page prices the finishes.
Order a butterfly cake
We reply within 24 hours with a price. No deposit is taken until you are happy with the quote.
Not ready to send it? What follows answers most of what people ask first.
How long it takes
7–10 days for a simple design, at least 14 for two tiers.
Sooner is sometimes possible: a rush adds 50% when the notice is under 7 days, if the diary is clear.
In a hurry? Bento cakes take 3–5 days.
Delivery
From £30, quoted by distance from RG12 0UY.
Collection from Bracknell is free — see the areas we cover.
Paying
50% deposit to hold your date; orders under £50 are paid in full.
Balance 3 hours before collection, or cash on the day.
The deposit is non-refundable but transferable with 4 days' notice — full terms.
Which butterfly cake did you come here for?
The word splits cleanly in two, and search results mix them together, which is why this is the first thing on the page. A butterfly bun is a British home bake: a small plain sponge, a disc cut from the top and halved, the two pieces stood in buttercream so they lift like wings, a dusting of icing sugar. It costs pennies, takes twenty minutes and is the thing most people remember making as a child.
A butterfly cake in the bakery sense is a celebration cake with butterflies as its theme — wings in sugar or printed wafer, usually with flowers, usually for a girl’s birthday or a christening. That is the one with a price on this page. If you wanted the buns, the method is in the questions below and you should absolutely make them yourself.
Why do the wings have to be dried in a curve?
Because a flat butterfly reads as a sticker. Sugar paste cut into a wing shape and left flat sets into something that lies against the cake with no shadow under it; the same shape laid over a folded card and left for a day sets with a lift in it, and then it catches light along the fold and casts a shadow, which is what the eye reads as a butterfly rather than a decal.
That drying is the cost. It also means butterflies cannot be made on the morning of a cake, which puts this design in the same category as a unicorn horn: ask earlier than you would for a plain cake. The unicorn page explains that constraint in more detail, and it applies here for the same reason.
What should the cake underneath be?
Something quiet. Butterflies and flowers are busy decoration, so the cake wants to be a single soft colour with a clean finish rather than a second pattern competing with the first — pale pink, ivory, sage or butter yellow all work, and the butterflies supply the contrast. A textured buttercream finish gives the wings somewhere to sit without looking glued on.
Flower cakes covers what goes with them, buttercream finishes the surface underneath, christening cakes the other occasion this theme is ordered for, and birthday cupcakes are what to order if the buns were what you were really after.
What else do people ask?
Allergies? Our kitchen handles all 14 of the allergens UK law requires us to declare, so nothing we bake is free from any of them. What is in each cake, and our hygiene rating.