These bees taste as sweet as honey and are guaranteed to make an unBEElievable impression on guests at your next BBQ or summer gathering.
INGREDIENTS
Makes 12 servings (if you don’t gobble up the beehive)
- 2 standard size donuts
- 13 mini donuts
- 1 munchkin
- 24 mini vanilla wafer cookies
- black decorating gel
- 1 container of white frosting
- yellow food coloring
- 24 mini white candy pearls
- 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
- 1 chocolate bar
BEE PREPARATION
Create the body:
- Mel
t a can of vanilla frosting until it’s in liquid form. Add and mix yellow food dye for desired shade of yellow. - Dip donuts into the yellow icing one at a time and coat all sides with the icing.
- Remove and place on rack for the icing to harden. Repeat this step for 12 yellow donuts.
- When icing has cooled, draw three lines with black gel icing across the body and a small triangle at the base for the stinger.
Create wings:
- Cut mini wafer cookies in half.
- Dip in white melted frosting.
- Place on wire rack.
- Sprinkle white sugar on top before icing has hardened.
- Let cool.
Create the heads:
- Dip 12 mini round wafer cookies in yellow icing.
- Cool on wire rack.
- Once dry, draw eyes, mouth and antennas on face with black gel.
- Place two mini white circle candy pearls at the tip of the antennas
Put together the bee:
- Use a small drop of icing to connect the back of the head to the body.
- Next, add a small drop of icing on the back of each wing to connect it to the body.
Tip: Place the head and wings on the body so that more than half covers the donut. This will help stabilize them. If the weight of heads or wings is still too heavy to stay in place, you can place a mini marshmallow below wings or head to hold them in place until they have hardened to the body.
BEEHIVE PREPARATION
- Dip two regular sized donuts, one mini donut and one munchkin into melted yellow frosting and cover on all sides.
- Remove and dry on wire rack.
- Once cooled, place the two big donuts on top of each other, the mini donut on top of that and the munchkin on top (If the beehive is traveling you may want to connect the layers with a dab of icing. Otherwise, just place them on top of each other for easy eating.)
- Break off a piece of the chocolate candy bar to form the door
- Use a cheese grater to round off the top section of the door and edges
- Cover one side of door with icing and stick that side to the donut beehive
Your guests will be buzzing about this tasty treat!
Grin And Eat 