A Mouthwatering Addition to Your Holiday Table

Looking for the perfect dessert for your Easter or Passover celebration? Our Lemon Sting Bundt Cake is sure to impress your guests.

Lemon Sting Bundt Cake

Our Lemon Sting Bundt Cake is a delightful blend of sweet and tangy flavors that's sure to impress your guests. This moist, buttery cake bursts with fresh lemon zest and juice, making it an ideal centerpiece for your spring festivities.

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups sugar
5 large eggs, room temperature
½ cup Green Bee Lemon Sting
1 tablespoon grated lime zest
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 ½ sticks salted butter
3 ¼ cups flour

GLAZE:

1 cup (4 ounces) powdered sugar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

Instructions

Position the oven rack in the lower-middle position. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease and flour a 12-cup tube or Bundt pan.

Melt the butter and set aside to cool slightly.

Add the sugar, eggs, Green Bee Lemon Sting Soda, lemon zest, and lemon juice into your standing mixer. Run on lowest speed until combined. With the mixer running, slowly add the butter in a steady stream and mix until fully incorporated. Add 1/3 of the flour and whisk until combined. Repeat twice until all the flour has been used.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 1 ¼-1 ½ hours or until a pick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean (be sure not to over-bake it—Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes, then turn the cake out onto a wire rack to cool completely 

To make the glaze, whisk together the powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth. Place the cake, craggy side up, on a serving plate and drizzle with glaze. Let the glaze set for at least 10 minutes before serving. Makes 12 servings.

Love and Bees. Its a Real Thing!

Did you know that St Valentine is the Patron Saint of love and BEEKEEPERS? Yup, love and beekeeping!

Back in Roman times and still to this day, bees are a symbol of romantic love.

For such a happy and sweet filled day, the history of how Valentines Day came to bee is a lot darker.

It is believed that Valentine’s Day originated from Lupercalia, an ancient Roman Festival. Lupercalia, was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus the Roman God of agriculture. We won’t get into how this was celebrated (it’s kind of morbid and distressing) but if you’re interested you should totally check it out (don’t say you weren’t warned).

As Christianity took over, it began incorporating Pagan holidays into their own celebrations. This is exactly what happened to Lupercalia. St Valentine, was a priest and beekeeper. Known for treating his bees with love and compassion. Valentine, defied the Roman Emperor Claudius 11 by secretly marrying couples. This really angered Claudius and he had Valentine tortured and decapitated on February 14th

To honor St Valentine, the Church began calling Lupercalia, Valentines Day

It wasn’t until the Middle Ages when the idea of courtly love became popular that Valentines Day started to become a thing amongst lovers.

Crazy to think that a day that started with an execution is now the Universal day of love.

5 Tips To Help With Dry January

Dry January is a time when people take a break from drinking alcohol. The U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for cancer warning labels on all alcoholic beverages to highlight the link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk. “Alcohol is a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States…yet the majority of Americans are unaware of this risk”.

After hearing this, Dry January and an NA lifestyle are even more relevant than ever for our long term health.

Here are 5 tips that will help you on your journey:

1. Make sure to have lots and lots of Non-Alcoholic choices on hand. Can anyone say, Green Bee? Our fizzy, delicious honey sodas and sparkling waters are the perfect replacement for any cocktail. If you’re going to a friend’s house bring a few 4 packs so you know your covered.

2. Sit down and make a list and identify why you drink. Are you drinking because you are stressed out? Are you drinking to help you sleep better or to help break the ice in social situations? Once you identify why you are drinking. Come up with alternatives to drinking so you are prepared before someone tries to hand you a drink.

3. Pay attention to how you are feeling without drinking. Start a journal so you can track your daily progress. Are you sleeping better? Have more energy during the day? Feeling less bloated? These are all positive signs that will help stay you on your alcohol-free journey.

4. Put all of the money aside that you would have spent on alcohol and do something nice for yourself at the end of the month.

5. If your feeling great without alcohol, come up with a long-term plan. Just like with healthy eating habits, if you aren’t making a conscious effort on a daily basis, it is very easy to fall into your old bad habits.