Honey Bee Mine: Valentine Fondant Cupcake Tutorial

A cou­ple of sea­sons ago, I released a pub­li­ca­tion, Lyn­lee’s Vin­tage Valen­tines, con­tain­ing the step-by-step instruc­tions to cre­ate four sweet Valen­tine fon­dant cup­cake top­pers. Since it con­tin­ues to be one of my most pop­u­lar tuto­ri­als, I thought it would be fun to share the direc­tions for the Hon­ey Bee Mine fon­dant top­per for your Valen­tine cup­cakes this year!

Materials Needed:

♥  Red, light blue, yel­low and black fondant
♥  Fon­dant rolling pin with 1/8″ guide rings
♥  Rolling pas­try cutter
♥  Scal­loped round cut­ter {approx. 2”}
♥  Medi­um heart-shaped cutter
♥  Round dec­o­rat­ing tips #3 and #10
♥  Water/edible glue and brush
♥  White soft gel paste
♥  Let­ter embossers/plastic wrap
♥  Toothpick
♥  Knife tool

Step 1:

Roll out yel­low fon­dant thick {approx­i­mate­ly 1/3” thick}. Cut out a heart shape with the cutter.

Step 2:

With a knife tool, make lin­ear inden­ta­tions, start­ing at the bot­tom of the shape, across the top and fin­ish­ing it off on the bot­tom of the oth­er side. This will give it a puffy look to cre­ate the heart hive.

Step 3:

Roll two pieces of yel­low fon­dant into a ball and then with your fin­gers, gen­tly spread it out to make the shape more oval to cre­ate the bees’ bodies.

Step 4:

Roll out some black fon­dant with the rolling pin and 1/8″ guide rings and with the rolling cut­ter, cut four strips for the bees.

Step 5:

Glue the black stripes onto the bees {2 each} and trim off any excess. Make sure it wraps around enough to cov­er a bit of the bot­tom of the bees’ bodies.

Step 6:

Roll out the light blue fon­dant with the rolling pin and 1/8″ guide rings and cut out four cir­cles with round dec­o­rat­ing tip #10. Grab a piece of the cir­cle and pinch it togeth­er and with your oth­er hand, flat­ten the oppo­site end a bit to cre­ate bee wings.

Step 7:

Glue the blue wings onto each of the bees with the point­ed sides down. Once glu­ing them, hold them in place for a few sec­onds to ensure they are secure­ly fas­tened to the bees.

Step 8:

Roll out a bit of black fon­dant with the rolling pin and 1/8″ guide rings and with round dec­o­rat­ing tip #3, cut out four lit­tle cir­cles to make the bees’ eyes. Glue them on with a bit of water.

Step 9:

Dip a tooth­pick into the white soft gel paste and dab them onto the black eyes of the bees.

Step 10:

Roll out red fon­dant with the rolling pin and 1/8″ guide rings and with the scal­loped round cut­ter, cut out a cir­cle. Uti­lize round dec­o­rat­ing tip #3 to cut small cir­cles around the perime­ter of the scal­lops, clean­ing them up, if necessary.

Step 11:

Roll out some light blue fon­dant and with the embossers, stamp out “hon­ey bee mine”. Make sure they are food safe and if not, uti­lize plas­tic wrap in between to avoid con­t­a­m­i­na­tion. Trim the excess on the top and bot­tom and cut out “V” shapes on each side. Shape the say­ing into a wave.

Step 12:

Glue the bees to the hive and the hive and mes­sage to the scal­loped bot­tom and allow the top­per to dry thor­ough­ly. Uti­lize the tooth­pick and soft gel paste if high­light­ing the key word in the message.

And don’t for­get, if you are inter­est­ed in the instruc­tions to re-cre­ate all four cup­cake top­per designs, feel free to check out Lyn­lee’s Vin­tage Valen­tines!

For addi­tion­al Valen­tine-inspired projects, be sure to take a look at the fol­low­ing posts:

♥  You’re Just My Type party

♥  Baked with Love play date

♥  Per­fect Match cake pop tutorial

♥  I Love Ewe fon­dant tutorial

♥  For­tu­nate to Have a Valen­tine Like You cookies

♥  Ex-STRAW-ordi­nary Valen­tine gifts

Hap­py Valen­tine’s Day, sweet friends!

Merci Beaucoup!

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