I want to make a birthday cake for my MIL and mail it to her. When I asked what flavor she requested a pina colada cake. I found a few recipes, but I don't know whta kind of icing to use, especially since I will be mailing it to Ohio!

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kathi

I would use either hi ratio shortening type of bc and/or fondant. Nothing that could spoil/melt etc...

If you flavoured the icing with coconut that would definitely go with the pina colada cake!!

Best wishes for a safe arrival of your cake!!

I planned to use a shortening based frosting, but how would I flavor it coconut without using coconut, which would make the icing bumpy?

Kathi

use coconut extract...my mom loves this with coconut cake

use coconut extract instead or in addition to vanilla in your bc recipe ...my mom loves this with coconut cake

use coconut extract...my mom loves this with coconut cake

Thanks, beetlebug! I'll try that!

Kathi