Super-cute and easy to make, these heart-shaped cookies by Marie McGrath from Marie’s Bakehouse are bee-rilliant!
Top tip! You can also use this design for ‘What will they bee?’ cookies for a baby shower!
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Bee Mine cookies
The perfect Valentine's decorating project – Bee Mine cookies!
Brought to you by Marie McGrath from Marie's Bakehouse
You will need
For the cookies
- a batch of your favourite cookie dough
To decorate
- sugarpaste (white, black and yellow)
Equipment
- heart-shaped cookie cutter
- paintbrush
- cooled boiled water
- knife
- baking paper and pencil
- scissors
Instructions
1
Bake a batch of your favourite cookie dough using a heart cutter.
2
Draw round the cookie cutter onto a sheet of baking paper. Draw a bee design like the one here inside the heart shape you have drawn. Cut out the bee body shape and the two wings.
3
Roll out the yellow paste and cut out the bee body shape, using the template.
4
Roll out the black paste, cut into thin strips, and stick them across the yellow body shape, leaving space for the face features. Trim the black strips at the edges.
5
Stick the body shape to the cookie with cooled boiled water.
6
Roll the white paste and cut out the two wings using the templates. Stick the wings to the cookie using cooled boiled water.
7
Roll two small balls of white paste into oval shapes, then stick them down for the eyes. Add two tiny balls of black paste on top. Roll a very small sausage of black paste and stick this down for the mouth.
8
To finish, roll two thin sausages of black paste and stick them down on top of the head.
Last updated one year ago
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