Believe it or not, this was a last minute cake! Made entirely by one person in one week, this cake wasn’t as hard as it looks. I had to take it tier by tier in order to not panic. I started with the bottom, which consists of buttercream and fondant rocks. The rocks were actually … Read more
I made 3 Hawaiian Luau Cakes. The top level is a pineapple. I used a 6″ and a prep bowl to make my cake, with a little carving to tweak it. It is covered in fondant. The leaves are fondant with gum text added to help them harden and keep their shape. I piped my lines with butter cream. … Read more
I made this Hawaiian Island Cake for a rehearsal dinner for my best friend’s wedding. They were going to Hawaii for their honeymoon, so decided on a Luau themed dinner. The ocean layer is two 12 inch round chocolate cakes with chocolate mouse filling. The island is two 10 inch round lemon cakes with fresh … Read more
I was asked to make a cake for a friend’s 40th birthday and was told she liked Hawaii and the color purple. I started by googleing anything to do with Hawaiian cakes and came up with my version of a Hawaiian Luau Birthday Cake. The bottom layer is two 12 inch stacked cakes with filling … Read more
I made this Hawaiian Themed Cake for a 26th birthday. She wanted a Hawaiian/Luau Themed party so I made this cake for her. The cake was made of 11-inch and 9-inch round cakes (2 layers each) with chocolate mousse and fresh strawberries in the middle. I used buttercream icing to ice the entire cake then … Read more
Well every year I try to be totally different with my cakes. I originally attempted to get a bakery to make my daughters luau party cake but she wanted to charge me for icing. I used the basic Betty Crocker mix, followed instructions on back. My next step was the icing. I made a basic … Read more
Kid Birthday Cake Recipe: Chocolate Cake mix 2 Cans White Frosting Blue food coloring 1 box Instant Jell-O in Blue Raspberry Runts candy brown sugar teddy grahams Swedish fish I prepared a 9×13 cake as directed. While the cake cooled I put together the Jell-O and put in the fridge to semi set. I cut … Read more
I made this Hawaiian Luau Cake for my grandaughter’s 10th birthday. She wanted a luau cake and she told me the way she wanted it. She would like a beach, palm trees, tiki bar, an umbrella, sandals and dolphins. I made the beach with piping gel and the sand with brown sugar. The tiki bar … Read more
This Luau Birthday Cake was a cake that I made for a Luau themed birthday. The cake was a basic half white and half chocolate. I made a thin consistency frosting in order to make the grass skirt look around the outside as well as the waves. The island was tricky, but after some thinking, … Read more
This Luau birthday cake was inspired by a cake submitted on this site by Becky Z. of North Miami, FL. I used some elements from her cake to create this birthday cake for my daughter’s 6th birthday which had a “tiki/luau” theme. I used a 1/2 sheet cake, frosted it the blue very loosely to … Read more
For this luau party cake we used an 11″ x 13″ cake pan with three boxes of cake mix. For frosting we used 3 cans of white store frosting (regular inexpensive) and did not make our own. After baking the cake and letting it cool we spread white frosting over 2/3 of the cake. We … Read more
My cousin used this kid birthday cake recipe for her daughters 4th birthday party. The party had a “Hawaiian Luau” theme, so she had to come up with an original birthday cake recipe. She decided to make a beach! For this kid birthday cake recipe, she used a large sheet cake pan and iced the … Read more