Making Honey Cakes by 5B

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As Year 5 have been learning about the Victorians, they ended their topic by making a delicious honey cake…

The Chase Bridge apiary holds our very own bees that help pollinate our flowers, fruit and vegetables. They are very important as without them, there would be no colour or food in the world. The queen bee is the most important bee. Without her, there would be no bees.

When we visited the apiary we learnt some very interesting facts such as:

  • The queen has a spot on her back so the beekeepers can tell that she is the queen bee.
  • There are three types of bee: a queen bee, a drone bee (male) and a worker bee (female).​ 
  • When a bee dies, its fellow workers will strangely chuck it out of the colony! This is so disease doesn’t spread.
  • The bees can’t talk so when they need to communicate with other bees they do a dance called the ‘waggle dance’.
  • Occasionally, the queen bee will lay special eggs that turn into prince and princess bees that will fly away with a swarm to make a new colony.
  • Bee keepers have to wear a special suit when they collect honey which covers their entire body except their hands. To keep their hands protected they wear gloves.

We used our own honey from the bees to make a delicious Victorian honey cake. We started off by getting into groups and mixing the sugar and the butter. Surprisingly, there were no eggs used! We added milk to make the mixture wet and then some baking powder. Finally, the honey was added and the mixture was baked for 20 minutes. When we tasted them, a lot of us decided we preferred modern day cakes as they are much sweeter.

Have you tried honey cakes? How would you use the Chase Bridge honey?

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