I am letting dd1 (7) and dd2 (4) plan dd3's 1st birthday

[Enid]

It seemed like SUCH a good idea at the time

dd1 is keeping notes, here is her list as written:

a cake shapped like a bee (BEA!!)
food
sweets
cakes
hot dogs
music for Bea
my friends (a list of 5 friends follows )
dd2's friends (a list of 3 friends follows)
ohter peple
mummy
daddy
posters all arond
sprakles allwhere

(her spelling is appalling)

thats very sweet

dd3 is 1 already?

faints

end of april

they are planning ahead

OMG Enid i really cant believe shes almost 1

party sounds fun, enjoy

Bea has no musical preference

she looks blank and starts wiggling automatically to any sort of music at all

utterly undiscerning

sounds like a great party

i have a fab cake book that has how to make a bee cake it you'd like a copy of the instructions let me know. Its based round a pudding bowl cake covered in yellow and brown icing but does look very cute.

is it hard? cake icing is NOT my forte

also the dds are supposed to be doing it

I have a book calle Easy Party Cakes - must be the misnomer of the century

no idea haven't made the bee cake! just the duck, castle and snail cake!

From memory (books at home, i'm obviously working hard at work!) you make a basic sponge cake but cook it in a Pyrex bowl rather than cake tin, this will make a very round cake, you cover this with yellow ready to roll icing then add stripes of butter icing and cover those with choc sprinkles to make the stripy bee bit! then some wings cut out of white ready to roll icing and two brown lolly pops as antennae.

that sounsd great! wuole love recipe

email me your address and i will photocopy the pages and post them to you, or i will try and scan them in using the office scanner but will depend on whos about.

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I'm copying the bee cake instructions for my dd3's birthday.

It'll be topical as she's going to be a bee in the pre-school "musical".

fennel if you email me then i can email you a copy of the instructions to, you'll also get a photo of what its supposed to look like!!! i will bring the book to work tomorrow and scan them in!

thanks katzq, have cat-ed you.

fennel - have emailed you the cake instructions

Enid if you'd like a copy i can email them to you, my email address is [email protected] or CAT me