I know I don’t do baking posts here very often, but I actually make a lot of cakes! and if I get to decorate them in a exuberantly fun way like this one then I will be tempted to write a post about it here…
My niece Jacinta was having her 21st, with a yellow-themed birthday party… and what with one thing and another making it very busy for my brother’s family I ended up offering to make the cake. Time was pretty short and the pressure was on! and I’m so glad I could spare the time myself, as well that I had already prepared my own yellow outfit well in advance!
I made two batches of cake, flavoured one with the grated rind of two lemons for a lemon flavour, the other one with vanilla essence… baked each in halves to make 4 flat cakes, and layered them alternately. I made lots of batches of plain icing to glue them together and give the cake a crumb crust, and coloured the outer layers with yellow food colouring… finally it’s decorated with real flowers and mini chocolate bumblebee cake decorations. I wound gold jewellery wire around my finger to make spirals, speared the bumblebees on and secured them with a tiny blob of icing.
I was so happy with how it turned out! Also, we had such a wonderful time at the party and it was so lovely to spend time with all the family!
Exquisite. Joyful. Perfect.
Aww, Carolyn, that is a lovely, even exuberant cake! You are such and inspiration; and Jacinta is lucky to have you as her aunt.
Like you I sew quite a lot (since 13 now 68) and like you I also bake a lot. I have never made a Bumblebee Cake like yours but it is so beautiful I will definitely be copying it for my Granddaughter’s next birthday Follow your blog and love your makes – currently working on Burda 07/2018 #118 for the coming summer here in Qld. Thank you for taking the time to share your garments and knowledge with us all.
I am so inspired by this cake… how will I find enough people to eat it???
That looks delicious! We have bees and that’s exactly what they look like, buzzing around the flowers. And yellow is just the happiest colour.