Decorate a Spring Butterfly and Flower Cookie Platter

Spring is the perfect time to brighten up your cookie decorating with a beautiful butterfly and flower platter! In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to decorate a stunning arrangement of butterfly and flower cookies using royal icing. The butterfly wings come together effortlessly with a wet-on-wet technique, making them look intricate without extra effort. Whether you’re preparing cookies for a spring party, Mother’s Day, or just for fun, this platter is sure to impress!

You can find the butterfly & flower cookie cutter set for this platter in our shop, making it easy to recreate this design at home. Let’s get started!

Butterfly & Flower Platter Cookie Cutters

This butterfly & flower cookie cutter set includes a flying butterfly cookie cutter, a petal flower cookie cutter, and a center circle cutter. You can purchase cookie cutters together as a 3-piece set, or as a 2-piece cutter set without the center circle.

(This is the same circle cutter used in all my platter sets, like this Wild Flower Cookie Platter, Gardening Cookie Platter, and Easter Bunny & Chick Cookie Platter, etc.)

There are two sizes available. When arranged as a platter, as shown in the example picture, the platter measures:

LARGE- 12 inches in diameter.

SMALL- 9 inches in diameter.

For this tutorial, I'll be decorating the large size.

Template for the Butterfly & Flower Cookie Platter

To help with the decorating process, I made a PDF template of all of the new 2025 cookie platter cutters, including this butterfly & flower cookie platter design.

You can download all the 2025 platter cookie templates HERE.

If you have a Kopykake or Pico projector, just print it out (or pull it up on your mobile device) and you are good to go. For those without a projector, follow the suggested steps below by tracing the design onto the cookie with an edible food marker.

The Cookie Decorating Process

Decorating cookies always starts with a good royal icing recipe. This is my tried and true royal icing recipe that I always use.

For this butterfly & flower cookie platter, you will need the following suggested colors:

• Light Pink icing (I used Americolor Deep Pink.)
• Darker Pink icing (I used more concentration of Americolor Deep Pink.)
• Gold Yellow icing (I used Americolor Egg Yellow.)
• Green icing (I mixed Americolor Mint with a touch of Americolor Leaf Green.)
• White icing (I used Americolor Bright White.)

Step 1

For the butterfly cookie, begin by first filling in the empty space with a thin layer of white icing. Let that thin set (about 15 minutes).

Next, fill in the upper wing section using light and dark pink icing and a wet-on-wet technique. You can see the steps I did to do the wing design in the video below.

Step 2

Fill in the lower wing section using the same wet-on-wet technique. Let this icing set again.

Move on to adding the yellow antennae of the butterfly and the lower body detail, as well.

Step 3

Finish this butterfly cookie by adding the yellow head. 

Step 4

For the flower cookie, begin by filling in the lower empty space with a thin layer of white icing. Also, add the yellow top detail.

Next, outline the petal sections, as shown. I also added squiggles in the middle to help prevent any possible cratering.

Step 5

Fill in every other petal, as shown. Also, add the top of the leaves details in green icing. Let this icing set (about 15 minutes).

Then fill in the remaining light pink petals and the lower parts of the green leaves.

Step 6

Add the middle stem detail to finish this flower cookie.

Step 7

For the final, center message cookie, begin by flooding the entire cookie with green icing. Let this icing dry completely.

In the shop is a new hello spring cookie stencil you can use for the center message. Just swipe thick white royal icing over it to apply it to the cookie. The video below better illustrates how I did this.

Spring Butterfly & Flower Cookie Platter Video Tutorial

The steps above are summarized in this time-lapsed video I put together below.

Here's the final spring butterfly and flower cookie platter all assembled. To create this entire platter required 11 cookies-- 5 butterfly cookies, 5 flower cookies, and 1 center circle cookie.

This is the large, 12" version. For the tray it's on, I like to use the 12" pizza pans from Dollar Tree. They are cheap and sturdy for transporting around.

With just a few simple techniques, you’ve created a beautiful spring butterfly and flower cookie platter that’s perfect for any seasonal celebration! The wet-on-wet method makes decorating the butterfly wings effortless, while the floral cookies add the perfect finishing touch. I hope this tutorial inspires you to try new designs and have fun with your cookie decorating. Looking for more creative cookie platter ideas? Visit our cookie cutter shop to find even more cookie cutter platter sets designed to make decorating easy and impressive!