For Cohen's first birthday I came up with this fun way to add bees to his birthday cake for his Classic Winnie the Pooh birthday party. I had seen a similar version in a magazine my grandma had mailed me with jellybeans but I didn't want to have to dig out yellow or black jellybeans from the rest of the colors so I used something I had on hand instead, mini marshmallows!
This is what you need to do this project:
- mini marshmallows (each one is a bee so decide how many you want and add two more for back ups)
- yellow food coloring
- water (for coloring the marshmallows)
- black gel
- 1 toothpick per marshmallow
- 1 toothpick for drawing the lines
- almond slices
- wax paper/baking parchment paper
Put your marshmallows on their toothpicks (make sure they're not poked all the way through). Dunk each marshmallow in the water and count to 15. Take out and repeat again if you want it a little more vibrant but know that the marshmallow will start to dissolve if you leave it in the water too long.
Let your marshmallows dry (I put them on their sides that would be covered with wings so if the color came off their it'd be fine) on the wax paper so they won't stick.
Once they are dry you can draw on your black lines with the gel. I put the gel on a toothpick so I could see what I was doing better since I was working with a small space.
I taped the bees to Tupperware lids to keep them up since I hadn't done the cake yet to put them directly in, but do whatever you find convenient for you. Let them finishing drying and enjoy!
