You may give surprise to your kids by presenting them edible butterflies, flowers, and butterfly decorated cakes on their birthdays. Butterflies are attractive insects that love flowers. They feed on nectar in flowers. The beautiful insects are often seen in gardens. The colorful themes of butterflies are also used to decorate cakes, pastries, and cookies too. The 3D shapes can be made by help of Icinginks Edible Wafer papers and edible printers. You need following tools to make the edible flowers and butterflies: 1. Colorless Wafer paper sheets 2. Edible Printer 3. Edible ink Cartridges 4. Scissors 5. Brush 6. Water 7. Edible Glue 8. Edible sprinkles Tips to print a Wafer Paper with butterfly images: You may print pictures on a wafer paper as you print images on a frosting sheet. You must have some images of the moths on your laptop that attached with an edible printer. You may download it from the internet if you don't have it. Now group the images in file. If you need ten 3D images of the moths, then you need 20 images in total. You might select ten images. Now copy them once in a file. This file, that contains 20 images, should be used for printing. Set the images on it carefully. Adjust it on an A4 sheet in a right manner so that the entire shapes remain intact without overlapping each other or the edges of the sheet. Now give it a print command. Take out the printout and cut the shapes out of it using small scissors or blades. 
How to make Wafer Paper Butterflies Now you have 20 images in total out of which 10 are replicas. Make 10 pairs by grouping the similar images. You have 10 groups of the images. Each group has one pair of similar images. Now fold the wings of an image and add it to the center of another similar image by applying some water with a brush. 
You should repeat the process with each pair until you get 10 different butterflies with unique patterns of color. You have now prepared 10 butterflies. Each butterfly has 4 wings presently. How to make edible flowers using wafer paper: Wafer papers are also a good material to develop edible flowers of any kind that you wish to make. You can decorate a birthday cake/cupcake with such eatable flowers. If you need six different flowers then you have to print six wafer paper sheets in separate colors including pink, yellow, and green also white, red, and orange. 1.Take a colored sheet and fold it three times vertically in equal portions also cut each portion into three pieces again 2.Fold the set of three small pieces of the edible paper and cut heart-shaped petals from it. 3.Take a small square paper of similar color and add the heart-shaped petals on it with using water or edible glue 4.Also, cut the end of the heart-shaped petals, on its center line, with scissors about 1cm and glue both the ends while overlapping each other. It would give the straight petal a cap shape. Place some of these petals in2-3 rows on the ring of flat-petals with their raised ends upwards. This would give a natural look to the flowers. 5.In the middle part of each flower, scatter some edible sprinkles for giving it natural look of pollen grains. 6.You may prepare some other types of flowers in different colors while applying the same method 7.The flowers are now ready to decorate the cakes or cupcakes How to decorate birthday cake/cupcakes with edible butterflies and flowers: After getting a birthday cake ready, you can place the edible butterflies and flowers on its top/side or as your kid wish it to be there. The cake with 3D butterflies and flowers looks very beautiful and natural. 
The 3D images beautify the cake and cupcakes fantastically and they are eatable & easily digestible. They are made from FDA approved Edible Inks and Wafer Papers of Icinginks™. You may purchase the wafer paper sheets & edible printers from Icinginks.com, an online store dedicated to edible ink printing on foods.
