Bee's and their flowers

The last weekend was crazy, I had two cakes due at once, Saturday morning and Saturday evening.

Saturday morning's cake was a gift for my daughters dance school Easter raffle, a beehive made up of 3 tiers of chocolate mud cake filled with buttercream and carved into the shape of a hive, everything on the cake was edible excluding the tooth picks i used to anchor the bee's and flowers in with.  I also added a ballerina bear who was cheekily sneaking some honey out the side of the hive.

Saturday evening's cake was an engagement cake for a friend, its was three tier again with chocolate mud filled with white chocolate ganache and strawberry preserves, the top tier was also filled with preserves and ganache but the cake was also infused with Irish cream for a bit of extra oomph!

Both cakes went of really well and I'm very proud of the job i did, the roses on the engagement cake, were a first for me as I had never made them before and after stuffing around for days with colour and technique, I feel i didn't do to badly.

I will definitely be practising though as I have found some different techniques that I would like to try!