I was asked to donate a cake/cupcakes to a charity event last year in Chicago. I somehow forgot to blog about these goodies until now. Whoops. The event was a Spelling Bee fundraiser and everything was bumble bee themed! I made a bee cake and a million bee mini cupcakes. Apologies for the less-than-stellar photos – I took them very last minute, when everything was all packaged up and ready to roll!
Mini Cupcakes:
- I used yellow and chocolate box mixes to make the cupcakes.
- I made a batch of chocolate buttercream and yellow-tinted white buttercream. Recipes for both can be found here.
- I ordered the little sugar bees from Amazon.com, the rest of the cupcakes were decorated with sprinkles.
Bee Cake:
- I used Wilton’s lady bug cake pan for this — and converted it, by decorating, into a bee!
- One box of cake mix will be enough to fill the pan.
- I decorated the bee with a small star tip, using the same icings that I listed above. You can attempt to make black icing, but it takes A LOT of black food dye to avoid a gray-ish hue.
- The stinger was made out of brown fondant.
- I was going to include wings on the bee, but they would have made the cake too tall to fit into the box. So the lil’ dude was wingless!
made the oreowls for my grandsons birthday they made a big hit with everyone..I took half of cakes and put eyelashes on so the girls had a choice of cakes’. got another b day coming up this mo. going to find another receipe for this one .one thing is I’m thinking of injecting a pudding into the cup cake. do you have a receipe for one like maybe cookie monster or the ants at a picnic.
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