DD1 has requested a BUMBLE BEE cake for her B-day. Please help a novice fulfill her desire!

[AngelinaJolly]

That's it really. I have a standard 9" round cake tin, and a loaf one I think. I can get food colours, chocolate, and any bits a bobs needed.

Just need a plan- or it'll end up Picasso-esque...

[girlsyearapart]

maybe you could get a square cake board use your tin to do the body and draw the rest onto the board with icing pens?
Or use liquorice laces for the antennae?
umm..

[oopsacoconut]

what about something like this You could make the wings out of card instead of chocolate.

[PortAndLemon]

This might be an easy option.

Or some ideas here.

[MrsBadger]

have you a flat baking tray with an edge, like you'd use for oven chips?

if you make a big flat cake in that (or two and stack them with jam in between) you can draw a bee outline on A4, cut it out and trim the cake to fit.

Then ice yellow and net or add fabric wings, use squeezy writing icing in a tube for the detail and add liquorice for black stripes and legs

like this in fact

[AngelinaJolly]

you lot are great

fab pictures and I love the fabric or paper wings (maybe stiff rice paper?)

I'm off to the supermarket this aft to investigate icing pens/ liquorice etc...

wish me luck!