Throw Me Some Ideas For Hawaiian Themed Cupcakes...help!!
Decorating By denise2434 Updated 18 Apr 2007 , 5:07pm by wgoat5
My son's class is throwing a Hawaiian themed party before the start of CATS testing and I'm at a loss of what kind of cupcakes to make with that theme....Do you guys have some ideas for me?? Nothing too hard because I'm not that great of a decorator. 
Thanks so much!! ~Denise
The only ideas I have are to put some hibiscus flowers and surfboards on them. I was thinking you could do chocolate transfers from a picture of a surfboard unless you could find a candy mold and stick those in the tops.
How about some pineapples, leis, seashell neclaces, beach w/seashells, sand, or sunset/rise, bright fish, beach toys, flowers, orchids, hibiscus (state flower),coconuts, clear blue water a fish, tiki lights, hula skirts, bathing suits, birds-parrot, giant leaves, palm trees, dragon fly, sharks tooth, volcano w/lava. For the teacher-a Pina colada or tropical drink.
This site has tons of Hawaiian information, including name translation-if you have time you could get a class list and write the Hawaiian name of each student and add a simple flower, fish, bird or something like that.
http://www.alohafriendsluau.com/tips.html
Google and Yahoo images have pictures of just about everything-you could get ideas from doing searches in either place.
Thanks so much sweetbaker and Antylucifer!! 
That link was great Anty!!!
OK, this may not be as good as the ideas above but here is another suggestion. I made some cute Hawaiian T-shirt cakes that I posted on the site not to long ago. I used the T-shirt pan but you could do the same thing with cupcakes by making a pull-a-part cupcake cake. ??? I have done just one cupcake cake and I couldn't believe how easy it was. There are many directions posted in the forum. Good luck with whatever you come up with!
I attached the pic of the shirts - I hope it worked!
Awwww Hookste, those are so adorable!! I love the sunglasses!! That is a very cute idea!! Thank you!!
i was going to suggest a lot of different things, but then noticed the suggestion to keep it simple- and someone else said seashells. so...
ice the cupcakes (as sloppily as you want) then dip them in crushed nilla wafers or grahm crackers so it looks like a mini beach. buy a chocolate mold for $2 at michaels, hobbby lobby or joanns that has seashell shapes. use candy melts, (melt at a low temp so the choco doesnt turn white when dry) and swirl dark and white together if you want. if you have luster dust (super pearl, gold - whatever) use a little to dry dust and place one shell on each cupcake. viola! so cute! AND so easy!
What about something like these? Simple but really cute.
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=favpics&cat=0&pos=-243343
WoW!! You guys rock!!!! Thank you so much for all the cool ideas...I'll post some pictures when I'm finished.
wgoat5, where abouts in KY are ya??
and yourself? I'm in Western KY...between Paducah and Ft. Campbell. It's nice to meet ya!!!
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