A few nights ago, I saw a bee hive cake pan mold on Pinterest one of my family members posted that looked awesome. I finally found it here, and bought it. The recipe for the honey lemon cake comes with the cake pan so I won’t post it but we didn’t use the icing recipes, but I’ll write about that later.
The Bee Hive Cake Pan Mold with Our Finished Cake
The cake pan was delivered this morning so I decided to make a bee hive cake and bring it to family movie night, where my four-year-old niece helped me ice the cake. After much ado, we settled on a lemon zest twist and took an hour to hour-and-a-half to create the final product.
[mainbodyad]It turned out great, though it is definitely a lot of sweetness and sugar. It would be good in small bites for someone having hot tea or coffee, since the cake body has a fantastic consistency.
For the lemon zest icing recipe, we took 6 cups of confectioner sugar, 2 teaspoons of freshly grated lemon rind, 6 tablespoons of butter, 2 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of lemon extract, 2 tablespoons of water, a couple of dashes of salt, and roughly 1/2 a cup of milk (depending on the thickness you want for the icing), all blended and whipped in a mixer. We then added drops of yellow food coloring for visual effect. To drizzle, you can heat the lemon icing in the microwave until it becomes runny, then pour it over the bee hive cake. It will thicken in less than a minute.
The Bee Hive Cake Pan Mold
Preparing to Make Bee Hive Cake with Bee Hive Cake Pan Mold ... We used fresh lemons for both lemon juice and lemon zest, honey, vanilla extract, butter, salt, sugar, and a host of other ingredients.
This is a bottle of honey that we bought in Iowa a few years ago from a local organic farm. It seemed a good time to break the seal and put it to work.
Mixing the honey, sugar, and butter for the cake batter mix ...
The cake batter was great ... the honey and lemon in it resulted in something between a regular cake batter and a pound cake batter. The taste was delicious.
Pouring the cake batter into the cake pans ...
Approximately 60 minutes later, the finished halves come out of the oven ...
The two halves of the bee hive cake ...
We sealed the two halves together with the lemon frosting ...
Then melted, and poured, the lemon zest icing over the bee hive cake ...
Until we completed the finished product and served it ...
The whole thing took very little time, relative to some of the other recipes we make, and it turned out really well. Plus, it is a nice novelty to be able to serve at dinners, as you could easily refrigerate if you wanted to make several other shapes besides the bee hive cake.
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