As a gardener and nature photographer, I have a soft spot for bees! My home state of Colorado is bursting with inspiration for my cookie art, this time with a photoshoot full of bees inspiring me to make this pin!

In these photos, half of the cookies are un-decorated and half are painted with edible luster dust. I have many painting tutorials on this blog if you’re new to the technique! Browse the recipes and you’ll find quite a few.

See a quick recipe idea below!

I made these cookies with my favorite Vanilla-Honey Rolled Cookies recipe. For a simple recipe post with that dough, check out my post from last Fall: https://creativecookiepress.com/2025/10/20/halloween-cookies-buttercream-dip-made-with-embossed-rolling-pins/ You can follow the same steps for this pin EXCEPT, as the Bees Pin instructions will show you, flour the flat rectangle of dough you make with your regular rolling pin. While you should initially “season” this pin when you get it with mineral or vegetable oil, you won’t want to oil it for rolling like I recommend for the other pins.

Instead, when you use it to roll dough follow a really simple two step process!  Start by creating a log of dough that’s about the width that you want, then flatten it out with your hands a bit. Put the waxed paper on top and roll the dough flat to 1/4″ thick. (Using flour at this step will make the cookies tougher and the dough stiffer as you roll and re-roll, since you would be flouring it twice – flat then embossed – with each roll. Don’t do it! Use the wax paper. It’s clean, easy, and quick, and doesn’t over-flour the dough.)

Remove the waxed paper and lightly but thoroughly dust the top surface of the slab of dough with flour. This method works much better on this particular pin, and prevents the honeycombs from sticking to the deep cuts in the pin! They release much cleaner when rolled with flour.

Now follow the rest of the Halloween recipe post about cutting out and baking, etc.

Added bonus! I dipped cookies in that Halloween post, so here’s a fun idea for the bees: dip the cookies in *honey buttercream*. 😋 I’m loving the irony of honey cookies and honey buttercream for this bees pin. 🥰

Honey Buttercream

1/2 cup butter softened to room temperature

1/3 cup honey

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Cream the butter with an electric mixer, then add the honey and mix well. Add the sugar and mix until combined, then whip it up as fluffy as you like! Dip those cookies and enjoy!

To celebrate the 4th of July, we’re having an “America the Beautiful” SALE, in appreciation of our nation’s natural beauty.

SALE details: 15% OFF cookie press disks, our cookie press, embossed rolling pins, luster dusts, cookie cutters, & baking accessories. SALE is June 19 – July 1, 2026, on our website and Etsy shops ONLY! (Links below) Sale excludes Holiday Gift sets and our recipe book.

Our website has all of our 300+ disk shapes, cookie press, embossed rolling pins, baking accessories plus more about our Women/Family Owned company! impressbakeware.com

All products are on our Etsy shop.

Our Amazon shop has our cookie press and disks and embossed rolling pins.

Happy 4th of July and Happy Baking!

~Susie

Disk & Pin Designer/Co-Owner at Impress! Bakeware, LLC