I first started by baking a 12 by 18 1/2 sheet cake using 3 cake mixes. I then iced it using buttercream; I used a serrated knife and added waves in the icing. I then used an airbrush and made a background resembling sky, sun, and sand. The tree, girl, and aloha, were made out … Read more
I got this kid birthday cake idea from a cake magazine and also the internet. I decorated the teddy grams as swimmers, snorkelers, and mermaids. I made a two layer cake and cut the top layer apx. 3/4 of an inch deep and poured in blue jello, that was setting (about the consistency of runny … Read more
I bought a pineapple flavored cake for this Luau Cake. I baked two round cakes and layered it with frosting I added coconut extract to. I then cut a small “pond” in the top layer of the cake. I added blue food color to the remaining frosting (2 cans of vanilla worked perfect). Before frosting … Read more
This cake was for a friend’s eighth birthday. I took 14 inch coma cake for the island on a blue cake board. I took the giant cupcake for the hut. The hut roof was made of shredded wheat. I took crushed vanilla cookies for the sand. The rocks were candy covered chocolate. The palm trees … Read more
I made these Luau cupcakes for my son’s school dance. I used chocolate and white cupcakes. For the beach ones I spread icing on top and dipped in crushed graham crackers. I then put a dot of icing on a piece of a fruit roll up and attached to the top. I then did the … Read more
I used two 9″ round cake pans. The top layer had to be cut into about an inch and a half and scooped out. I added blue Jell-O that was almost set. You then have to allow it to set. I made blue icing. The sailboat is made by icing a Twinkie and using a … Read more
For my daughters 10th birthday, she wanted to have a Luau party. For the Luau party cake, I found a picture of a cake on the Internet and took it from there. My daughter, Heather, requested chocolate, so we started with a basic box cake mix, which I made in a 9 X 13 pan. … Read more
I threw a Luau for my daughters first birthday party. I am stopped daily and told my baby looks like a Cabbage Patch Kid so I decided to personalize her cake to her invitations. I took a half sheet cake with a layer of plain white buttercream frosting and started with that as my canvas. … Read more
I did get the idea for this Tiki cake from this website. I wanted to show how cool mine came out. I did things a little different. I used 9 inch round pans. The cake was 6 layers high and every layer was a different type of chocolate and frosted in between. I leveled each … Read more
First of all, I bow to the ladies that went before me! Thank you SO much for all of your ideas and help in making this Pre School Graduation Luau Cake so much fun to make! When the pre-school teacher came to me asking for a cake for 50 people (including 35 children) in a … Read more
This Homemade Luau Cake was a birthday cake for my daughter, Piper, who wanted a Luau theme cake. Since her birthday is in June and her parties are always at the lake, which involves a curvy road in, I had to figure out something easily transportable! (The 3D dog cake’s head fell off on the … Read more
To make this kid birthday cake I used two 9×13 layer cakes and stacked them on top of each other. It was frosted with a store bought chocolate frosting. I crushed up nilla wafers to make the sand and used spray blue cake color to “airbrush” the waves and spray white for the whitecaps on … Read more