We are feeding out colonies at the moment, mostly 2:1 sugar/water, but also some honey left over from last year (back into the same hive). However, when we went to replenish the feeder today my co-beekeeper (my 9 yr. old daughter) asked why we did not use the sugar cakes as the bees do not drown in those.
Seemed a good question, so I thought I'd ask.
(by sugar cakes I mean white sugar dampened and pressed and into cake/biscuit shapes and dried)
Any thoughts?