Life in Beehive - by icingsugarkeks

This is my contribution to Challenge # 40.
I accepted your challenge dear Christine. You write there are many ways to create a "brush embroidery". I put brush embroidery on the raw dough in my cookie and then baked it. The bees' wings are also decorated with brush embroidery. They are made of very thick frosting, almost fondant. I glued them tight after baking. The whole cookie turned out to be too dark for me and so I thinly painted the beehive with icing sugar and white food coloring. Next time I would bake the basket with light cookie dough. I think that would be better. So I learned something again ...

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How fun Gabi!! I love your idea of using brush embroidery to create this beehive @Icingsugarkeks!! So clever and creative my dear. Your little bees are adorable!! I really appreciate your explanation of how you created your beehive by baking the dough with the technique already applied. Awesome idea my dear ❤️. I know what you mean about the dark cookie dough but think that it still looks wonderful!! Hugs...

I love all of the texture! Very nice

Clever idea!

@Cookies Fantastique posted:

How fun Gabi!! I love your idea of using brush embroidery to create this beehive @Icingsugarkeks!! So clever and creative my dear. Your little bees are adorable!! I really appreciate your explanation of how you created your beehive by baking the dough with the technique already applied. Awesome idea my dear ❤️. I know what you mean about the dark cookie dough but think that it still looks wonderful!! Hugs...

Carol, my cookie friend, Thank you so very much for your lovely words as always !! I really appreciate it so much!!! You makes me happy with your comment my dear !!!
So many hugs ... ❤️😘❤️ @Cookies Fantastique

@sylviawilson posted:

I love all of the texture! Very nice

@sylviawilson posted:

Clever idea!

Thank you so very much dear Sylvia for your comments!! 😘 @sylviawilson

This is great Gabi,such a great idea,you are so creative,BRAVO!!!

@Petra Florean posted:

This is great Gabi,such a great idea,you are so creative,BRAVO!!!

Many, many Thanks dear Petra for your comment!! ❤️😘❤️  @Petra Florean

Many Thanks  @PartyPrettier   @Econlady   @Jean Adams  😘

Beautiful work Gabi👏

Oh Gabi!  This is wonderful.  I love the idea of brush embroidery from dough.  Very clever.  Great job!! @Icingsugarkeks.  😘❤️

Great use of the technique.  Thanks for the full description.  Love your hive!

great idea and lovely work, dear Gabi

Wonderful idea Gabi!!! Super entry for the challeng. Many congrats my dear!!!!

@MANUELA CANTÙ posted:

Beautiful work Gabi👏

Many Thanks dear Manuela!! ❤️😘❤️  @MANUELA CANTÙ

@LisaF posted:

Oh Gabi!  This is wonderful.  I love the idea of brush embroidery from dough.  Very clever.  Great job!! @Icingsugarkeks.  😘❤️

Thank you so much my dear cookie buddy Lisa!! ❤️😘❤️

@E. Sherwood posted:

Great use of the technique.  Thanks for the full description.  Love your hive!

Thanks a lot for your lovely comment dear @E. Sherwood ❤️😘❤️

@PUDING FARM posted:

great idea and lovely work, dear Gabi

Oh Timea, Thank you so very much my cookie friend!! ❤️😘❤️ @PUDING FARM

@Dolce Flo posted:

Wonderful idea Gabi!!! Super entry for the challeng. Many congrats my dear!!!!

Dear Filomena, have many Thanks for your lovely comment!! ❤️😘❤️

Many Thanks 😘  @PaulinaBiskup   @talia   @Shea

I like your outside-the-box thinking when it comes to using cookie dough for your brush embroidery technique. For this challenge, I was looking more so for entrants to use the traditional brush embroidery technique - which uses royal icing - to create their not-so-traditional designs. Your bumblebee wings are a great example of this. I like the idea of a beehive; it is certainly very creative.

@Sweet Prodigy posted:

I like your outside-the-box thinking when it comes to using cookie dough for your brush embroidery technique. For this challenge, I was looking more so for entrants to use the traditional brush embroidery technique - which uses royal icing - to create their not-so-traditional designs. Your bumblebee wings are a great example of this. I like the idea of a beehive; it is certainly very creative.

Thanks a lot dear Christine!! ❤️ Let's see, maybe I can get yet a real cookie ready ...?! 😘

Many Thanks 😘  @Aproned Artist   @Julia M. Usher

How adorable! Wonderful!!! 💗

Pretty 

I love all those tiny bees! 

What a great idea my dear friend. So beautiful and so realistic! ❤🐝🍯 @Icingsugarkeks 

@Evelindecora posted:

How adorable! Wonderful!!! 💗

Many Thanks dear Evelin!! @Evelindecora ❤️😘❤️

@Rosanna posted:

Pretty 

Thanks a lot dear @Rosanna ❤️😘

@Tina at Sugar Wishes posted:

I love all those tiny bees! 

Aww... Thank you sooo much dear Tina!! @Tina at Sugar Wishes ❤️😘❤️
I like the bees too... You should get a cartoon character. I have never seen bees with noses! 😂 But I thought that was kind of cute ...

@Kanch J posted:

What a great idea my dear friend. So beautiful and so realistic! ❤🐝🍯 @Icingsugarkeks 

Dear Kanchana, Thank you sooo much for your always kind words my cookie friend!! ❤️😘❤️ @Kanch J

Many Thanks 😘  @Kyra Manthe   @Lou Lou   @Verónika

What a clever idea! Beautiful and very creative! 

Looks like it's drenched in sweetness. Lovely idea

@The Sophistibaker posted:

What a clever idea! Beautiful and very creative! 

Thank you soooo much dear @The Sophistibaker ❤️😘❤️

@Joanna Manuel posted:

Looks like it's drenched in sweetness. Lovely idea

Thank you sooo much dear Joanna!! ❤️😘❤️  @Joanna Manuel

What a nice idea to use the brush embroidery technique on cookie dough, and so much work to make each single dot of dough of the same size (I belive). Thanks for the details in the comment. 

@Manu biscotti decorati posted:

What a nice idea to use the brush embroidery technique on cookie dough, and so much work to make each single dot of dough of the same size (I belive). Thanks for the details in the comment. 

Thank you so much dear Manu.

Many Thanks 😘 dear  @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave.