Luau Birthday

Cake is a combination of several ideas from cakes on CC. 10" and 8" red velvet iced in buttercream. Tiki hut is two cupcakes stacked, iced in royal and covered with pretzel sticks. Pretzel rod palm trees with fondant leaves. Torches are candles wrapped in fondant (didn't really like the way these turned out). Fondant tiki mask, shark fin, snake and coconuts. Pirouette cookies around island. Graham cracker crumbs for sand and Oreo crumbs for path. A lot of work but fun and very rewarding!

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Comments (19)

Joanne914 on 5 Aug 2007 , 1:51am

Your cake is WONDERFUL!! I just love the tiki hut and torches made from pretzels! Genius!

dezzib27 on 13 Aug 2007 , 5:55pm

I absolutely LOVE IT!! I have a request for a Hawaii cake for this weekend

dezzib27 on 13 Aug 2007 , 5:56pm

P.S. The tiki torches are GREAT! :lol:

ladefly on 4 Aug 2007 , 4:49pm

i think it looks great, very clean looking lines. !!!!!

nmrunyon on 15 Aug 2007 , 5:00am

Did you use a pattern or cutter for the palm leaves? They look great and I need to make some this weekend.

Tweedie on 15 Aug 2007 , 1:53pm

For the leaves I just used one of the Wilton metal leaf cutters to get the general shape and size and used a knife instead of the leaf cutter on the side where the cutter curves in. Hope that makes sense!

LisaMS on 4 Aug 2007 , 2:32am

How cute!!!

momsandraven on 4 Aug 2007 , 3:16am

Oh, I love this! Thanks for the great description too, that is so helpful in trying to recreate your masterpiece. ;) This one is definitely going on my 'to do' list!

Amy83 on 6 Aug 2007 , 8:37pm

very creative and well done

LisaMS on 4 Aug 2007 , 2:32am

How cute!!!

momsandraven on 4 Aug 2007 , 3:16am

Oh, I love this! Thanks for the great description too, that is so helpful in trying to recreate your masterpiece. ;) This one is definitely going on my 'to do' list!