🍯🐝 BEE SWEET: A Dual Learning Experience! 🐝🍪
1. Full Sensory Honey-Tasting 🍯👃👅
Led by Dry Creek Beekeeping, you’ll use all your senses to become true honey connoisseurs! Explore the flavors, textures, colors, and aromas of light, medium, and dark honeys—plus creamed, crystallized, and comb honey. A delicious journey from hive to tastebud!
2. Cookie Decorating by Pies & Cakes by Mackensie 🍪🎨
Learn the basics of royal icing on bee‑themed cookies! Skills include:
• Royal icing basics
• Piping
• Tipless bag techniques
• Outlining & flooding
• Writing with icing
• Sugar cookie dough tips + tricks
You'll take home six beautifully decorated bee cookies, plus a royal icing recipe and sugar cookie recipe—so you can proudly say, “I made that!” 🐝✨
📍 Location: Heinemann Visitor Center
📅 Date & Time: May 21, 2026 • 6–8 PM
💲 Cost: $50
🤝 Sponsors: Dry Creek Beekeeping + Pies & Cakes by Mackensie
🌟 Covering credit card fees when purchasing tickets helps the Arboretum greatly — thank you! 🌟
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