My daughter loves butterflies (see her Butterflies and Flowers cake also).
I wanted something interesting but not too time consuming. So I made this two tiered caked with two box cake mixes and nine and six inch round pans. I used store bought frosting and colored it with Wilton coloring gel. Then I did some scroll work on the very top with white frosting and my daughter helped with the dots around the top of the purple tier. I then cut out some plastic butterflies from her Mermaidia Doll box and hot glued them onto toothpicks and inserted them into the cake.