This easy to make Mini Baby Bumble Bee Shaped Cakes are perfect for a baby shower get together or reception. The baby Bumble Bee is perfect if you do not know if the baby will be a girl or a boy.
Bake your favorite cake mix as usual. You need to bake it in a 13″ X 9″ baking pan. You can bake two cakes (or more for a large baby shower) and cut them out exactly the same to make a large number of Mini Baby Bumble Bee Shaped Baby shower Cakes.
Now, stick the cake in the freezer for about 20 to 30 minutes. You want to slightly freeze is, but not freeze it completely. This will help you cut it into the shape of the Mini Baby Bumble Bee Shaped Cakes.
Now, use a Baby Bumble Bee cookie cutter to cut out the Mini Baby Bumble Bee Cakes on the sheet cake. Simply press the cookie cutter in like you would cookie dough. Pop the Bumble Bee out and lay it on a flat surface.
Tip: You could also dotted line of tiny bite sized cakes, like the lien you see in coloring books that signify the flight the bumblebee just made. That would be super cute! Make them like very small bite sized cakes.
You should find this sheet cake cuts easily into the shape of these Mini Baby Bumble Bee Cakes since it is chilled and slightly frozen. This will make the cake much more easy to cut and get crisp clean edges of the small Baby Bumble Bee.
Now, take your 1 tub of the icing. You can use any colors like pink to decorate the ribbon. To make Baby Bumble Bee baby shower cake idea elegant I recommend leaving them in pink or pastel blue or yellow and outline in white piping icing.
You may need both tubs (or more) to adequacy cover a large number Mini Baby Bumble Bee Cakes.
Coat the entire Mini Baby Bumble Bee Cakes with a thick coat of icing. Use your spatula or butter knife to make the icing really smooth and flat. The more smooth the better. In fact if you like working with fondant icing, that would be the best, but you can use regular canned icing for this. Reserve some icing aside for touch ups later.
Tip: You may find it easier to apply a thin coat of icing to the entire Mini Baby Bumble Bee Cakes. Then place the cakes in the refrigerator for about an hour.
Once this thin layer has chilled apply another thicker coat of pink vanilla icing. This first coat is called the crumb coat for obvious reasons. This is a great way that the cake professionals use to get a clean smooth surface of icing on their cakes.
To garnish take your tube of matching white icing and outline your Baby Bumble Bee.
So, if you want you can make this Baby Bumble Bee cake in any color, like yellow, to make it look elegant be sure to pipe on the outlines in the same color though.
The look is timeless and perfect for any baby shower cake!
