How to Decorate a Butterfly Cupcake

I love cupcakes, the main reason is that one serving of your average cake is 1/12 of a cake and you can make 24 cupcakes out of one cake recipe. So if you eat one cup cake, you eat ½ of a serving of cake. You enjoy your cake, yet get half the cake calories. That’s a win-win situation. I also like to decorate them as long as I don’t need a pastry bag to make it happen. I was looking for something to please my Mother who collects butterflies. I found a butterfly cupcake here: http://www.marthastewart.com/266904/butterfly-cupcakes?czone, but I’m not Martha Stewart, so I will make it my way. So here we go.

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Step 1:

Supplies:
Cupcake (whatever kind you want)
Frosting (again whatever kind you want)
Pretzels (one for each wing, two wings for each butterfly)
Hard candy (I use Life Savers, although I have make sucker candy and used it before)
Plastic bags
Hammer
Small candies: Jellybeans, M & M’s, licorice nibs, etc., etc., etc.
Scissors
Knife
Foil
Cooking spray
Cookie Sheet