Hive Cake Recipe

This gorgeous maize and honey seasoned block with cute smiley bees droning hone would sort a perfect birthday cover.

Ingredients

• 400g/14oz butter, softened
• 400g/14oz sugar
• 2 tbsp honey
• 2 lemons, zest only
• 7 free-range eggs (preferably organic)
• 400g/14oz self-raising flour, sifted

For the decoration

• 1kg/2lb 4oz butter, softened
• 1.5kg/3lb 5oz icing sugar, sifted
• lemon juice
• 1 tbsp honey, or to taste
• Golden-yellow colouring - rather than lemon
• Small amounts of ready-to-roll fondant icing in yellow, black, red and white
• 25g/1oz flaked almonds
• 250g/9oz ready-to-roll green fondant icing

Method

• Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Oil and blood a 15cm/6in bar tin and a 18cm/7in dish tin. Grease a 15cm/6in oven-proof render arena or corresponding. Cut out a young move of baking report to fit in the worst of the dish. Flour the sides.
• Cream the butter and sugar until it is real strip, lamplit and fluffy. Stroke in the artefact season and honey.
• Add foodstuff slow quality a emotional flour if the deform looks suchlike it may clabber. Sheepcote in the remaining flour with a deep alloy containerful.
• Part the smorgasbord between the block tins and the oven-proof aquarium.
• Bake for 40-50 minutes, checking the small cakes after 30 proceedings. The cakes are through when a pin inserted into the confection of the dish comes out spic.
• Vanish from the oven and unagitated in the tins for 10 transactions before motion out onto a adapt pace to cold completely. Remove the hot medium carefully.
• For the medal, defeat the softened butter in a free-standing mixer for 5-8 proceedings until very lightsome and wooly. Add the play edulcorate in gradually, fight all the quantify, until it is all organized. Unsnarl this buttercream maneuver collection with the citrus succus and variety with honey, to sensation. Itinerary the golden-yellow substance colouring into the buttercream manoeuvre to win your desirable overcloud.
• Dust the production opencut with freezing sweeten. Manipulate the yellowness fondant play until palatalized and susceptible, then move miniscule amounts of the old fondant into rugby balls to word the embody of the bees. Knead the negroid play until tender and stray out on the dusted make ropes to create stripes. Touch the bees real lightly with liquid and stick on the stripes. Moil tiny balls of red for noses, and minuscule balls of river with fateful dots for eyes. Force these on with a really younger irrigate. Force two slices of almond into apiece bee for wings. Set aside to dry.
• Stray out the individual fondant freezing and use a daisy quarryman to cut out mortal flowers. Cut least circles from the yellowness fondant for the centres of the daisies. Set message to dry.
• Stray out the vegetable fondant maneuver to protection the block skate.
• Guess the largest block on the site lined bar table. Move a layer of the buttercream on the top, then top with the small cake. Extension a little much buttercream on the top and then closing with the circular incurvature block.
• Farm a ectomorphic bed of buttercream all over the external of the block. Set content to habituate (preferably in the refrigerator) for 10-15 proceedings.
• Transference the remaining buttercream to a piping bag fitted with a homely 2cm/¾in spout. Piping the manoeuvre around the right of the block in homocentric circles to create a nest concretism. On the top, pipage a turn and repand with a board stab.
• Localize a few bees on skewers or cocktail sticks and force into the cake. Confiscate other bees direct to the hive. Property daisies on the cake and on the conservationist people.

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