{"id":67,"date":"2006-10-05T23:29:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2022-08-15T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:27:19","slug":"little-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Little Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Marzipan-Bienchen\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This evening I made cupcakes for work tomorrow as a thank you for the lovely birthday gift my co-workers gave me. I made Nigella Lawson’s Carrot Cake Cupcakes and her Night and Day Cupcakes, both from „How to be a Domestic Goddess“, which was a birthday gift as well.<\/p>\n

I had bought marzipan and yellow food color some days ago, because I wanted to make little marzipan bees for my birthday. That was back when I naively thought I’d have the time to actually bake a cake for my birthday. Since my father is an entomologist it would have been a nice surprise for him, but unfortunately I never got around to making anything remotely cake-like. For his birthday then. It’d be perfect.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it seemed like I should use the marzipan anyway, since I was afraid I’d just forget if I didn’t and then I’d feel bad if I’d have to throw it away, so I decided to make marzipan bees to decorate one batch of the cupcakes with. It was easier then I thought but took a lot of time and patience. The result however is one of the cutest things I ever made in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

I colored the marzipan yellow and made little oval bee bodies. Then I made the stripes and eyes with melted chocolate. I used a teaspoon to dribble the chocolate from for the stripes, but that didn’t work for the eyes, so I used a skewer instead, which – as it turned out – would have been the better choice for the stripes as well. The wings were little shredded almond pieces. I was a bit afraid of that part, but it turned out that finding good wing-sized almond pieces was actually harder than pushing the almond wings into the little marzipan bodies.<\/p>\n

I also dribbled some more chocolate on the frosting, but that was mostly because I had so much left (bee stripes and eyes don’t really need a lot of chocolate) and I hate letting things go to waste and could think of nothing better to do with my little bowl of melted chocolate. Just eat it, you say? Well, maybe you’re right.<\/p>\n

Needless to say I am really proud of my little bees. Too bad they’re going to be eaten. And soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This evening I made cupcakes for work tomorrow as a thank you for the lovely birthday gift my co-workers gave me. I made Nigella Lawson’s Carrot Cake Cupcakes and her Night and Day Cupcakes, both from „How to be a Domestic Goddess“, which was a birthday gift as well. I had bought marzipan and yellow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","category-my-sweet-tooth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}