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.
Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in center of cakes comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cake layers cool in baking pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove cakes from baking ...
And there was cake. In the 18th century, Americans made Election Cake. They baked cakes with figs and cloves and brought them to the polls to share with neighbors. Sometimes, the cakes were enormous.