BUMBLEBEE CANDY RECIPES

Steps:

• Place almonds on a baking sheet; brush with egg white and sprinkle with yellow sugar. Bake at 350° for 3 minutes or until sugar is set., Tint 3/4 cup frosting yellow. Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag; insert #18 star tip. Fill with yellow frosting. Pipe three parallel zigzag lines on each cookie. Position two almonds, sugar side out, on each cookie for wings, propping with additional frosting if needed., Fill another pastry or plastic bag with remaining vanilla frosting; cut a small hole in the corner of the bag. Pipe a small amount of frosting to hold candies in place; add flowers for eyes and a heart, pointed side out, for stinger.

Steps:

• Line a baking sheet with wax paper or parchment paper. Set aside for later use.
• Chop eighteen Oreo cookies into fine crumbs using the pulse feature on a food processor.
• Combine the Oreo crumbs and cream cheese in a large bowl and mix together until thoroughly combined.
• Roll out the Oreo mixture into twenty-four small ovals, about 1 ½ inches long and 1 inch wide and roughly the shape of a bumblebee. Set onto the lined baking sheet.
• Refrigerate the Oreo cookie truffles for at least a half hour.
• As the truffles chill, roll out black fondant until it’s about ¼ of an inch thick. Use a paring knife to cut the fondant into 48 small strips, about 2 inches long and ¼ of an inch wide.
• Use the remaining fondant to roll out 24 bee stingers, about ¼ of an inch in size each.
• Once the Oreo cookie truffles are chilled, remove them from the refrigerator. Set aside.
• Place yellow candy melts into a microwave-safe bowl.
• Microwave the candy melts in 30-second intervals, mixing in between each interval, until the candy has completely melted.
• To assemble your bumblebee cookie truffles, dip ¾ of the first Oreo truffle into the melted yellow candy.
• Remove and place back onto the lined baking sheet. Then add two strips of fondant to the dipped portion of the truffle.
• Follow with two white chocolate chips in the center between the fondant for the bumblebee's wings.
• Add a tiny fondant stinger onto the end of the truffle.
• Then place a drop of melted candy onto the back of two of the candy eyes. Place the eyes onto the undipped portion of the truffle.
• Repeat for each of your bumblebee Oreo cookie truffles until there are none left remaining.
• Allow the bumblebee Oreo cookie truffles to set for at least 30 minutes before serving.