We’re buzzing about our summer bakes
拥有每个人最喜欢的六腿朋友，我们的瓢虫和蜜蜂主题的烘焙范围是完美的任何人谁想要举办一个花园主题的派对或孩子的生日狂欢，并保证把夏天的精神进入您的家。Here’s how we decorated ours.
Honeycomb Cake
What you’ll need
- Katy Sue Designs Honeycomb & Bees Silicone Mould
- Fondant icing in yellow, black and white – we usedRenshaw Ready-to-Roll Icing
- Flower icing cutters, like our4 Daisy Icing Cutters
- Royal icing – you can mix up your own, or ‘cheat’ by usingready-made
- Yellow food colouring
What you do
利用模具，把蜂房和蜜蜂拼好，用黄色糖衣为蜂房，用黄色、黑色和白色的小块为蜜蜂。制作花朵时，先将白色翻糖糖霜擀成2-3毫米厚，然后用切割器剪出雏菊形状，然后在每朵花的中心加一个黄色的小糖霜球。放置一整夜或足够长的时间让糖衣变硬。
Then bake a deep cake – we made ours from 3 stacked sponges made in 20cm sandwich tins, but you can make whatever size you like. Sandwich together the layers with vanilla buttercream or frosting, then crumb coat the outside of the cake thinly so you can still see the cake through the icing.
Mix up some royal icing (or use ready-made) and add a small amount of yellow food colouring. Ensure the consistency is thick enough to pour, but not so runny that it slides straight off the cake. Pour this over the cake slowly to get the drips down the sides.
Finally, arrange the honeycomb, bees, and daisies on the cake, using small dabs of royal icing or edible glue to hold them in place.
Honey Pots
What you’ll need
- Lakeland 12 Hole Mini Sandwich Tin
- Fondant icing in yellow, white and black – we usedRenshaw Ready-to-Roll Icing
- Round cookie cutter
- Black edible ink pen
- Edible Glue
- Katy Sue Designs Honeycomb & Bees Silicone Mould
What you do
Bake little sponges in the Mini Sandwich Tin (you’ll find plenty of recipes on our blog). Cut them in half, sandwich together with buttercream and then crumb coat the sides and tops with buttercream too.
Roll out a length of yellow fondant icing to 2-3mm thick and cut a strip to the height of your cakes. Wrap around each cake and trim off any excess so that it meets nicely at the back.
Roll out white icing to the same thickness and cut circular discs a bit bigger than your cake to make the lids of the pots. Cut out rectangles for the labels too.
Using the black edible ink pen, write ‘HONEY’ onto your labels. Once the ink has dried, stick the labels to the sides of the pots using edible glue.
Stick the white discs on to the top of your cakes and smooth down the edges to make the lids.
To make the bees, you can either draw these on using the food pen, using a little white fondant icing for the wings, or make them in the little bee moulds in the silicone mould, and then attach with a little edible glue. Then use the food pen to draw on a trail behind each bee.
Creepy-Crawly Tray Bake
What you’ll need
- OurBugs Cake Toppers Silicone Mould
- Flower icing cutters, like our4 Daisy Icing Cutters
- Grass piping nozzle – we used number 233 from ourGrass & Hair Icing Nozzles Set
- Fondant icing in pink, red, yellow, black and white – we usedRenshaw Ready-to-Roll Icing
What you do
Bake a chocolate tray bake – we used ourLakeland Brownie Traybake Tin(and you’ll find a great recipehere). Using a fork, scratch up a small area of the cake for the ‘soil’ section. Cover the rest of the tray bake with green buttercream, using a piping bag fitted with a grass piping nozzle, and carefully go around the edges of the ‘soil’ area.
Use the silicone mould and the fondant icing to create bees and ladybirds to go on top of the cake, pressing in different colours of icing to make stripy bees and spotted ladybirds.
制作花朵时，先将白色翻糖糖霜擀成2-3毫米厚，然后用切割器剪出雏菊形状，然后在每朵花的中心加一个黄色的小糖霜球。
Make the worms by rolling sausages of pink fondant icing, then take a cocktail stick and press it against the sides to create the ridges on the worms’ backs. Position all the creepy-crawlies on top of your bake, then finish off by sprinkling some crushed Oreo biscuits around the base.
Mini Ladybird Cakes
What you’ll need
- 12 Hole Ladybird Cake Tin
- Red and black food colouring
- Small round piping nozzle – we used numbers 2 and 5 from ourWriting Icing Nozzles Set
- A littlewhite fondant icing
- Edible Glue
What you do
Bake 12 little ladybirds in our cake tin, turn out and leave to cool completely.
Mix together icing sugar and water to a piping consistency – not too thick, not so runny it won’t hold its shape when piped. Divide this between two bowls and add red food colouring to one, and black to the other.
用5号喷嘴制作一个裱花袋，加入红色糖霜。用2号喷嘴制作另一个裱花袋，加入黑色糖霜。
Pipe around the edge of the cakes in red and black, and add black dots to bring out the details. Finish off by rolling small balls of white fondant icing to make the eyes, and attach with a dab of edible glue, then pipe black dots into the centres.
Inspired? You’ll find plenty more summery bee bakes on our blog – just search for ‘bee’.