Sweet as a Bee Chocolate Cupcakes

Fun for a birthday party or baby shower, these Sweet as a Bee Chocolate Cupcakes are sure to create a buzz! Use our simple fondant technique for making your own buzzing bumble bees, then use them to top your favorite chocolate cupcakes for a sweet treat that is sweet as honey! You can see these cupcakes and many more in the How to Decorate with Fondant Shapes and Cut-Outs kit, filled with lots of tutorials, inspiration and even a few must-have tools to make your treats shine.

Skill LevelBeginner

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Favorite Chocolate Cake Mix or Recipe
Lemon Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz.
Decorator Preferred White Fondant, 4.4 oz.
Buttercup Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz.
White Decorator Icing - 4.5 lb.
Decorator Preferred Black Fondant, 4.4 oz.

Tools
Non-Stick Cooling Grid - 14.5 x 20-Inch - Cooling Rack
Large Round Tip 2A
Recipe Right Muffin Pan, 12-Cup Non-Stick Muffin Pan
Decorating Bags, 16-Inch Disposable Piping Bags, 12-Count

Instructions

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Make bees.Make 24 fondant bees using How to Make a Fondant Bee technique. Set aside.
Bake cupcakes. Prepare chocolate cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool cupcakes in polka dot cupcake liners.
Tint icing. Combine Buttercup and Lemon Yellow icing colors to get yellow icing color shown. Tint icing yellow using color combinations provided.
Decorate cupcakes. Prepare decorating bag with tip 2A and yellow icing. Pipe swirl on each cupcake. Attach fondant bee to each icing swirl.

Notes

How To

How to Make a Fondant Bee
Learn how to make a fondant bee.
How to Pipe a Cupcake Swirl
Wondering how to frost cupcakes with a cute little swirl? Here is a quick way to decorate cakes and cupcakes. It just takes minutes to pipe a fancy iced swirl and add colorful sprinkles. Learn how to make a swirl using a 1M star tip as well as tips 2A and 2D.