Would you like to surprise the children with a cool birthday cake or bake a delicious cake for the family celebration? With a Mayan Bee cake, you can give young and old a culinary delight. The bee cake is also suitable for other festive occasions such as weddings, engagement parties and communions or confirmations. We give you several recipes for motif cakes and explain step by step how to prepare them. This way, the big day is guaranteed to be a fond memory!
Maya the Bee Cake: Recipe for dome cake with apricots and buttercream
Fruity jam and delicious buttercream make the first Maya the Bee cakeStar of every coffee table. We explain how you can prepare the cake and the cake decorations from marzipan.
Preparation: 2 hours and 40 minutes
Ingredients for 8 – 10 pieces:
Buttercream with honey
3 cups (approx. 200 g) flour
1 THE Backpulver
1/2 tbsp salt
1 cup milk
1/2 cup honey
1 cup soft butter without salt
1 – 1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla sugar
4 large eggs
For the buttercream: 1 cup soft butter without salt, 120 g cream cheese or mascarpone, 1-1/2 to 4 cups powdered sugar, 1/4 cup honey, 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar, yellow food coloring (powder or gel). Additionally 1/2 cup apricot jam, 6 marzipan bees.
Preparation:
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with circulating air. Line four baking tins (24 cm ø) with baking paper or grease them and sprinkle with flour.
2. Mix flour, salt and eggs and set aside.
3. Beat the butter with the whisk of the mixer on medium speed until smooth. Add sugar and beat for another 3 minutes until fluffy. Stir in eggs and vanilla sugar. Turn the mixer to low and fold in half of the flour mixture. Then mix the honey-milk mixture and then add the rest of the flour mix.
3. Carefully pour the finished smooth mixture into the four molds and bake for 25 minutes and then let cool for 10-15 minutes.
For the honey buttercream:Mix the mascarpone or cream cheese, butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and honey with the whisk of the hand mixer for 5 minutes. Dissolve the food coloring according to the manufacturer's instructions and add several drops to the mixture. Cover with cling film and chill.
Assemble the cake: Carefully remove the cooled cake layers from the tins. Place a cake base on a cake stand and spread buttercream with honey generously with buttercream and apricot jam on the base. Place the second cake layer on top and spread the filling on top. Continue until all four cake layers are stacked on top of each other. Then spread the cake with the rest of the buttercream and put it in the fridge. After 15 minutes, take the cake out of the fridge and spread it with an angle palette until you get the surface you see above.
Form balls out of yellow marzipan, model wings and eyes and form the stripes out of brown marzipan. Glue the wings together using a special edible glue for marzipan. Attach the finished Maya bees to the cake with toothpicks.
Bumblebee cake
A bumblebee cake with “Maya the Bee” cake decoration is guaranteed to please your guests. It's the perfect cake for a summer celebration. Treat your family and friends to a chocolate cake or surprise themwith a delicious cake with a fruity filling: The variations are simply endless. In any case, we will explain to you how you can make the creative cake icing yourself. All you need is bubble wrap and buttercream. With a little patience and practice, you can easily master the task.
Ingredients for the cake: Here you can give free rein to your imagination and either prepare your favorite cake or try out a new baking recipe. We also offer you a recipe for chocolate cake.
1 – 1/2 flour
1 cup sugar
1 THE Backpulver
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup cocoa powder
3/4 cup butter, softened
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla sugar
3/4 Tax Mascarpone
3 cups buttercream, colored yellow
For the cake decoration: marzipan bees, edible flowers, melted cream toffee and bubble wrap
Preparation: Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius, line two baking tins (24 cm ø) with baking paper and grease with baking spray. Sift the flour into a bowl and mix it with the sugar, packing powder, salt and cocoa powder. Using the beaters of a hand mixer, mix the soft butter, eggs and vanilla sugar and add to the dry mixture. Stir in the mascarpone and distribute the mixture into the baking tins. Bake the cake layers for half an hour and do a stick test. Then let the cake cool on a cake rack at room temperature for 2-3 hours.
Carefully remove the cold cake layers from the baking pans and then cut them into two horizontally. There should be a total of four cake layers of the same size. Spread each cake layer with buttercream or other filling of your choice and then assemble the cake. Place the finished chocolate cake in the refrigerator. Melt the cream toffee in a water bath and spread it evenly over a strip of bubble wrap (wider than the edge and long as the circumference of the cake). Place the bubble wrap on the work surface and let the toffees cool. Then take the cake out of the fridge and press the strip onto the edge of the cake until the melted toffees stick. Then carefully remove the bubble wrap. Top the finished cake with any marzipans. Decorate with bees and edible flowers.
With fondant as a surprise for a child's birthday
A Mayan Bee cake is guaranteed to put you in a happy moodat the children's table. We offer you a recipe for a simple dome cake with fondant icing.
The first step in preparation is to get the necessary supplies and ingredients. You need:
Fondant-Roller
Fondant in green, yellow, black and white
Yellow and black buttercream for decoration
Gumpaste
Large dome shape (24 cm ø)
Turntable
Piping bag and leaf tip
Flower cookie cutter
Keksausstecher
Fondant and marzipan modeling tools or knives for gum paste
Edible glue
Gather all the necessary ingredients and supplies at least a week before the big day. You also need to start preparing two days in advance.
Preparation:
One or better two days before the birthday, roll out the wings from fondant or gum paste to a thickness of 1 mm and cut them into shape with the gum paste knife. For the antennae, take a handful of the yellow fondant and portion it into two equal-sized balls. Then take two 15 cm long wooden cocktail sticks, wrap them with black fondant and smooth the surface. Leave 4 cm free at the bottom. Allow the wings and antennae to dry.
On the same day, preheat the oven to 180 degrees, prepare the dough for the cake and pour the finished mixture into a dome mold greased with baking spray. Bake the Mayan Bee cake for 45 – 60 minutes, remove and let cool on a cake rack. Meanwhile, cut a circle out of the green fondant. Then place the circle on a cake stand or cake plate; it should completely cover the cake plate. In a bowl, beat 200 g soft butter without salt with 450 g sugar and 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar until fine with the whisk of the mixer. Spread the buttercream on the cake and put it in the fridge for an hour.
Take the cooled Mayan Bee cake out of the fridge and cover it with fondant. Wait 10-15 minutes and then decorate the cake first with the yellow and then with the black buttercream. Additionally, use the cookie cutter to cut out several flowers from the gum paste and stick them to the green fondant using the edible glue.
Then cut out the eyes from the black and white fondant and attach them to the cake with the edible glue.
Recipe for bumblebee cake with honey
If you want to surprise mom for Mother's Day or celebrate an anniversary, then the next bumblebee cake is a quick and delicious alternative to the bee cake. You need the following ingredients: 3 cups flour, 1 - 1/2 baking powder, 1 tbsp baking soda, 1/4 tbsp salt, 1 cup soft butter without salt, 4 eggs, 2 tsp finely grated lemon peel, 1 cup mascarpone or cream cheese, 3 tbsp honey, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 2 tbsp lemon juice. As an accessory you also need a “honeycomb” baking pan.
Preparation: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and spray the baking pan with baking spray. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, beat the butter and sugar with the whisk of the mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Add the eggs and stir in. Add the dry flour mix, mix with the cream cheese and lemon zest. Pour the mixture into the baking pan and smooth the surface. Bake for 45-55 minutes, optionally you can also do a stick test. Remove from the oven and let cool on a cake rack. Meanwhile, place the hongi, powdered sugar and lemon juice in a small pan and heat over medium heat until the sugar caramelizes. Carefully remove the finished cake from the pan, turn it over and place it on a cake plate. Brush with the honey icing.
Bee cake made from donuts
You have invited a lot of friends and would like to serve a delicious dessert, but unfortunately you only have little time to prepare it? The next idea is just for you! You can make this creative cake yourself in less than 5 minutes. Arrange donuts on a cake stand and decorate with edible flowers and marzipan bees. If you wish you can take some of the donuts with youCover with fondantand sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles.
With buttercream
If you don't have experience with fondant, you can decorate the cake with a hole nozzle for cupcake frosting and buttercream. The best thing about this idea is that you don't have to smooth the surface of the cake. You can also cut out flowers from fondant using a cookie cutter and use chocolate icing to make a door on the cake. For the bees you need eyes made of sugar, marzipan and fondant.
Honeycomb motifs for the wedding cake
The honeycomb motifs can also decorate the wedding cake. We'll show you two creative ideas with which you can beautify your cake. The first wedding cake is decorated with edible paper. The second is covered with fondant and then the motifs were cut out with a knife.
