How to Decorate a Hexagon Cookie as Honeycomb

Directions

• 1

  Bake and cool cookies fully before decorating. Prepare royal icing in the following colors and consistencies:  

  Outline/Piping Consistency:  
  Golden Yellow (create golden yellow by mixing a small drop of Mocha Brown food coloring into yellow royal icing) 
  White 
  Black 

  Flood Consistency: 
  Golden Yellow 

• 2

  Using the yellow outline consistency icing, outline the cookie shape.  

  
• 3

  Flood the base of the cookie with the yellow flood consistency icing. While the flood icing dries, pipe the bee royal icing transfers. Royal icing transfers are like sprinkles—they are mini shapes piped with royal icing, then dried and adhered to your finished cookie. Learn more about royal icing transfers here. 

  
• 4

  Print out a small and simple clipart image of a small bee. This bee will be adhered to your hexagon, so be sure that the proportions are correct and that the bee is not too large for the space. Also, avoid a shape with a lot of detail—the more details, the more difficult it is to pipe. 

  Place a flat piece of parchment paper on top of the image. With the black outline consistency icing, pipe over the sections of the bee that are black. Let this icing dry for at least 10-15 minutes before moving onto the next step. Be careful not to move the parchment or the clip art while the transfers dry.  
  Pro Tip: Using outline consistency when piping transfers is beneficial for many reasons. It gives you more control over the placement of the icing, which is important when creating these small designs. It also allows the transfers to dry faster due to less moisture content in the icing, which also results in a more stable transfer that won’t be too fragile to handle. You’ll want to have your scribe tool or toothpick handy when piping transfers, to help the icing settle and make your designs more precise due to the small surface area. 

  
• 5

  Using the yellow outline consistency icing, pipe over the sections of the bee image that are yellow. Let this icing dry for at least 10-15 minutes before moving onto the next step.  

  
• 6

  Using the white outline consistency icing, pipe the top of the bee’s wings. Let this icing dry for at least 10-15 minutes before moving onto the next step. 

  
• 7

  Pipe the other wing with the outline consistency icing. Let them transfers dry fully for 8-12 hours, or until they easily slide off the parchment. If you try to remove them too soon, they may break. 

  
• 8

  Once the transfers have completely dried and easily slide off the parchment paper when moved, carefully pipe a small squiggle of yellow outline consistency icing onto the back of the bee transfer and attach it onto the hexagon cookie. Feel free to add two of three bees to the cookie design. 
  Pro Tip: When attaching transfers to a cookie design, it’s best practice to use an outline consistency icing of the same color of the base of the cookie so that if any icing leaks out from under the transfer, or if the transfer is translucent in any way, that the color of the icing used to adhere the transfer to the cookie matches the flooded base of the cookie.  

  
• 9

  Using the yellow outline consistency, pipe dotted lines following each bee to mimic a “flight path” design.