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Bee Mine!~ A Valentine’s Blog Tutorial

January 22, 2014 By Melissa D. 32 Comments

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Bee Mine! The most adorable Valentine's Day Cakes and Cupcakes! Free tutorial by My Cake School!

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I have CUTE “Bee Mine” Cakes and Cupcakes to share with you! This cake & cupcake tutorial is so simple & festive for Valentine’s Day!

Whether you are looking for Valentine’s Day party ideas for your children’s classroom, or for a little Valentine’s Day fun for family and friends, these simple cake and cupcake designs are sure to bring smiles!

 

I started with some cupcakes and two, six inch cake layers.  My cakes are going to be small portions…only single layers, and I’m supplementing with cupcakes.

Play around with the size of your cakes, the number of cupcakes, or even the number of cake layers if you need more servings!

 

 

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

Next, I tinted my crusting vanilla buttercream with a little Americolor Lemon Yellow, and frosted my cakes.

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

After the buttercream had crusted (about 5 min or so), I smoothed over it with a Viva brand paper towel.  (Viva has no impessions.) – Use your favorite smoothing method of choice, or you could even use a star tip to pipe stars of buttercream all over the tops for a more textured look.

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

Next, I used a ruler to mark off my bees’ lines. It worked out that the width of my ruler worked well for spacing out my lines…so, that was my guide.

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

 

After that, I filled my piping bag, which was fitted with a Wilton Star Tip 21, with Black Buttercream (Americolor Super Black).  I piped shells over the lines that I drew in the icing. You may prefer fondant stripes, but I decided to go with an all buttercream cake this time.

 

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

After piping my stripes of buttercream shells, it was time to start adding faces.  Now our bees are beginning to have personality!

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties! Next, our lady bee ;0) — For both bees, I piped their faces on with a Wilton tip 2.

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

Once our sweet bees had their faces, it was time to move onto the wings!  Since I am going through a wafer paper phase (we just made a video tutorial on wafer paper flowers), my first thought was to make wafer paper wings.  It worked really well!  However, if you do not have wafer paper, there are many options….cardstock, photo paper, white tissue paper, or even thinly rolled and dried gum paste wings.

Here I am, adding a little border around the wings with an Americolor food coloring pen.

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

I painted the top portion of a lollipop stick with piping gel, and then pressed on one of the wings.  Allow this “glue” to take hold….it may take a few minutes.

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

Then, I glued the top wing onto the bottom with a little bit of piping gel once again. The stick will serve an an anchor.  Once the wings are ready, you simply sink the anchor into the cake so that only the wings are visible.  (I used a little white disco dust to add more sparkle.)

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

 

Aren’t they cute?!  They could easily be finished at this point but I decided to give them little legs ;0)

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

To make our legs, I melted a handful of black Wilton candy melts in the microwave.  Then, I piped “L” shaped legs onto a waxed paper lined cookie sheet. You want them to be long enough to anchor into the cake.  Also, make them fairly thick so that they won’t be fragile.  After piping, I popped them in the freezer for about 5-10 minutes so that they would be firm when I placed them into the cakes.

 

 

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

We’ll show you our finished bee cakes soon…but first, let’s skip over to our cupcakes!

 

For our cupcake toppers, we used yellow peanut M&Ms.  The drawback to this is that I don’t think that you can find yellow peanut M&Ms by the bag.  We bought a few packs of M&Ms and wound up with enough yellows, but if we hadn’t, adding another cupcake design would solve the issue.  For instance, some cupcakes could simply say “Bee Mine” on top, or have heart candy toppers.  Another idea of course is to make yellow fondant bees or bees from candy melts.  There are tons of options!

Now…back to the M&Ms…. I used my americolor pen to draw two stripes.  I only drew on the front side for fear that I would smear my lines.

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

Next, I used my Wilton 3 tip to pipe dots of buttercream on my bee’s back. This will hold our heart sprinkle wings in place!

Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake cuteness with a Bee Mine theme! Free tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com!

Our only other decoration is a little sign that we made using red pre-colored fondant.  I used our stone stamps to write out our “Bee Mine” message, and then I cut it out with a heart shaped cookie cutter.  I bought the stone stamps at our local Michael’s (not on the cake decorating aisle) –but you can also find them online HERE.Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

I think that they came out really cute.  You can see in the photo that I added our Wilton heart shaped sprinkles to our bees for wings ;0)  They are a cheerful bunch!

 

So cute for Valentine's Day! Bee Mine cakes and cupcakes! MyCakeSchoool.com

…and here are our sweet cake bees… chocolate legs and all ;0)  Love is in the air!

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

I hope that you enjoyed our Bee Mine tutorial.  If you try it out, we would LOVE to see!

Adorable Bee Mine Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Valentine's Parties!

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Comments

  1. Betsy | JavaCupcake.com January 22, 2014 at 6:33 am

    What an incredibly cute idea! The yellow M&M bees are genius!

    Reply
  2. Melissa Diamond January 22, 2014 at 8:17 am

    Thank you Betsy!!

    Reply
  3. Theresa Libert January 22, 2014 at 8:18 am

    They are really cute. May have to help Grand daughters make them for their classes…

    Reply
  4. Okeahialam Nkechi January 22, 2014 at 8:29 am

    oh this is fantastic

    Reply
  5. Ivonne January 22, 2014 at 8:35 am

    Omg. I’m gonna try this!! Beautifulllll

    Reply
  6. Luceromaz January 22, 2014 at 8:38 am

    thank u
    This Beutiful

    Reply
  7. Joni January 22, 2014 at 9:22 am

    Hi Melissa:-)

    This is so cute!! I’ve been looking for ideas for my sons school party and I think I found one! What are you using for the blue background?

    Thank you!!!

    Joni

    Reply
  8. Edna January 22, 2014 at 9:39 am

    So beautiful and wonderful ideas! Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
  9. johanna January 22, 2014 at 10:37 am

    Beautiful idea…thanks for sharing…..

    Reply
  10. Wendy Harris January 22, 2014 at 10:47 am

    These are very cute. I have been looking all over for the letter cutters!! What is the name of them and where can I buy them? I’ve tried Michaels and no deal.
    thanks

    Reply
  11. kim January 22, 2014 at 11:06 am

    I wonder what thou could use besides m&m. We are allergic to peanuts

    Reply
  12. asra January 22, 2014 at 11:07 am

    hi,
    thanks for sharing such lovely ideas .a
    asr

    Reply
  13. Monica Maironis January 22, 2014 at 11:23 am

    Thank u and Happy Valentines Day

    Reply
  14. Michelle January 22, 2014 at 9:35 pm

    Kim, how about trying yellow jelly beans? Cute cakes as always Melissa!

    Reply
  15. ma. lorna lumongsud January 22, 2014 at 10:04 pm

    So nice and very informative, i really love to do it

    Reply
  16. victor ocasio January 22, 2014 at 10:17 pm

    I’m making this for valentines,,,will post results soon,,thanks for the wonderful ideas

    Reply
  17. Myra January 23, 2014 at 6:41 am

    Sooooo cuuute! Love it!

    Reply
  18. Lena January 26, 2014 at 1:16 am

    You never stop to surprise me! I am so proud to be one of your members! Where can I get the alphabets (I am in Australia)? Can I buy them from you? Or any members can sell them to me, maybe? Let me know, please. Thank you :)

    Reply
  19. Paula January 26, 2014 at 5:22 am

    Love this idea ! You can get big bags of m & m peanuts x

    Reply
  20. trisha January 26, 2014 at 7:09 am

    Well that just brightened up the day! Very cute.

    Reply
  21. Julie Herman January 26, 2014 at 7:27 am

    Adorable!

    Reply
  22. scott January 26, 2014 at 8:26 am

    Pretty Pretty. Thank you Melissa.

    There’s nothing like mycakeschool and coffee in the morning.

    Scott

    Reply
  23. Bukkie Obindo January 26, 2014 at 10:13 am

    Lovely indeed

    Reply
  24. Claudina January 26, 2014 at 1:23 pm

    Muchas gracias por compartir, Estan preciosas.

    Reply
  25. Kifah January 26, 2014 at 1:33 pm

    Very cute!! May I ask where did you get the letter stamps? :)

    Reply
  26. Melissa Diamond January 26, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    Thank you all so much for your nice comments! I really am always so excited for feedback on the tutorials ;0)

    I’m sorry that I forgot to include the link to the stone stamps–just added that. I bought these at my local Michael’s craft store and although I bought them a few years ago, they still carry them at mine. (They aren’t on the cake decorating aisle–check the section with the stepping stone and mosaic kits….or even the polymer clay tools.) – Here’s a link to the stamps online~
    http://www.amazon.com/Milestone-Victorian-Letters-Numbers-905-20-511/dp/B0033LX3Z2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1384527806&sr=8-3&keywords=stone+stamps

    Reply
  27. Carolyn January 26, 2014 at 5:15 pm

    Very cute idea! I want to try this.

    Reply
  28. Amany olwy January 27, 2014 at 5:51 am

    Love the idea .i’ll try it…thanks for sharing

    Reply
  29. Sadia Wasim February 8, 2014 at 5:10 am

    This so cute! I love it!

    Reply
  30. Susan Raynes February 11, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    Melissa, as usual you are the greatest. I love this!!!

    Happy Valentines Day to both you and Bebe.

    Reply
  31. Melissa Diamond February 22, 2014 at 11:56 am

    Thanks Susan! I’m sorry that I missed your comment earlier. I hope that you had a great Valentine’s Day too! ;0)

    Reply
  32. abha March 13, 2014 at 1:45 am

    I will definitely try it

    Reply

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