Preheat oven to 130C/260F
Grease and flour pan

Make cake according to directions on packet. (or use your own recipe) Pour mixture into pan; bake about 1 hour. Stand cake in pan 5 minutes; turn, top-side down, onto wire rack to cool.

Level cake top, position on cake board; secure with a little jam. Brush cake all over with jam.

Knead ready-made icing on surface dusted with cornflour until icing loses its stickiness; tint icing yellow. Roll icing into a rope about 1 cm thick and long enough to reach around the base of the cake.

Repeat with remaining icing, stacking ropes up on the cake; keep all the ropes' joins at the back of the cake.

Tint a scrap of icing a darker shade of yellow; roll into a thin rope. Trim wafer into a rounded door shape.
Brush around edge of wafer with jam; attach rope of icing to door.

Position door on hive, trace around door with a knife. Cut door shape out of icing on the cake. Position door on cake.

Using picture as a guide, make bees using remaining icing scraps to shape heads, use Milo Duos for wings and black decorating gel for eyes and markings. Attach bees to cake with a little jam.