You can colour the buttercream at this stage. To make butterfly cakes, cut the top off each cake using a small serrated knife – angling the knife in slightly so that you make a concave cut.

On TikTok, people are revealing their deepest, darkest secrets via the “Hear Me Out” cake trend, placing cut-outs of attractive fictional characters on cakes—with some very surprising picks.

The holes in this specimen show the passion butterflies have inspired for centuries ... He wasn't the only collector in the 1800s and early 1900s to capture large flying insects in this way. Obsessed ...

As they hiked, the Japanese man revealed an entire world of butterflies: their patterns of flying, mating, resting; what drew them in, what repelled them. Only years later did Jasmin learn his ...

Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years. Scientists found fossilised butterfly scales the size of a speck of dust inside ...

A new generation of bakers are reviving an old tradition. To illustrate this story, T asked two bakers to make cakes inspired by the women’s suffrage movement. The pastry chef Natasha Pickowicz ...

Here are the butterflies we may never see again in Britain - and three that have been saved. This small, slow-flying butterfly used to live across most of southern England and Wales. Now ...

Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations of schoolchildren have reared monarchs in classrooms, watching in wonder as striped caterpillars ...

For most butterflies, finding a mate to share their short lives with is their most important mission. To meet 'the one' among a swathe of unsuitable or unwilling partners, butterflies must adopt ...

With no luck on the farm for gifts, the boys head to make a mess in the kitchen as Richard the chef shares a yummy recipe for Butterfly Cakes, perfect for mum. Cream the butter and sugar together ...