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Beautiful Butterfly Cake

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prep time

1 hr

total time

2 hr

makes

16 servings

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What You Need

1 pkg. (2-layer size) white cake mix

1/3 cup Kraft Pure Raspberry Jam

16 Oreo Cookies (regular size cookie)

3 cups thawed Cool Whip Whipped Topping

1/2 cup fruit-flavored sweetened rice cereal

14 ring-shaped hard candies, any flavour

6 Mini Oreo Cookies

Make It

PREPARE cake batter and bake as directed on package for 2 (9-inch) round cake layers. Cool in pans 10 min. Invert cakes onto wire racks; gently remove pans. Cool cakes completely.

STACK cake layers on plate, spreading jam between layers. Cut cake in half. Stack regular Oreo Cookies in line down centre of large cake board or tray for the butterfly's body, securing cookies to each other with small amount of Cool Whip. Arrange cake stacks around body for the wings.

SPREAD remaining Cool Whip onto cake stacks. Decorate wings with remaining ingredients. Keep refrigerated.

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Variation

For a refreshing citrus cake, prepare using lemon cake mix and substituting Kraft Pure Orange Marmalade for the raspberry jam.

Size-Wise

This recipe is great for special occasions. Be mindful of serving size.

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This is the best cake in the world. This was the frist cake that I made for my 8th b-day I didn't think that I could do it but Mom said that I could. And she was right. SSOooooEeeeeeaassyyyyyyyyyyy!!1
posted by FJa | on 3/12/2010

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Make a special 2 day trip to be at our grandaughter's birthday every year and made this cake for her last 3 birthday's and by her request will be making it again for her 7th.on May 27-09. So rewarding and easy.
posted by tjbay | on 5/24/2009

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Made it for my grandaughter's 7th B-day everyone loved it ...But instead of the whip cream I used my own icing and it worked better
posted by bogner6 | on 7/16/2008

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I actually made this cake for my daughters 6th BD, and she and her friends have requested the cake again for her 7thBD. very easy to do, nd fun for the girls too
posted by karen | on 11/20/2007

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Easy and beautiful. My daughter loved it.
posted by allansusan19 | on 6/27/2007

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fun cake... turned out great. was a big hit for our 8yr old's birthday cake!
posted by a cook | on 6/5/2007

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This was so easy and clever. I contoured the wings abit more and dug out two small sections from the top and the bottom on each wing and added jello. (see the hole in one or dive on in cakes) Then I iced the cake around the jello sections, it looked great -- it had almost a stained glass effect.
posted by rbabinea | on 5/4/2007

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So easy to make this butterfly. I used it for my daughters 1st birthday and substitute lifesavers for jelly beans, and only had the cake 1 layer high instead of 2.
posted by cnjliving | on 2/3/2007

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My son and I made this cake for his little girl's birthday. She was so amazed, she did not know what to say. As for my other guests, they wanted to know where I had bought such a beautiful cake. It was so delicious, we had none left for the next day. The only problem was that no one wanted to be the one to cut into it. Thanks for making this such a special birthday for a special little girl.
posted by suemongeon | on 9/21/2006

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I made this for my 11 year olds birthday. She thought that the touch of oreos was really cool. I found that I had to add two more layers of oreos because the cake was too high. I will make this again.
posted by reeva79 | on 7/22/2006