Your kids will love a Hawaiian-themed cake designed just for their luau.
At any celebratory event, the cake can set the tone for the party. If you are planning a Hawaiian-themed party for your child or throwing a party to celebrate a trip to Hawaii, prepare a festive cake for the luau. Veteran cake-makers can turn a Hawaiian-themed cake into a large project, but even if you aren't an experienced baker, there are plenty of ways to make a cake special for your child. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Hula Doll Cake
Make a hula doll cake for your kid's party.
Assemble a hula dancer cake from a craft store doll's torso and a bundt cake or layered round cakes of decreasing size. Use a serrated knife to shave the cake into the shape of a bell. You can decorate the cake like a grass skirt using green icing and an icing bag that makes grass-style designs, or decorate the skirt with Hawaiian flowers. A pastry bag with an icing tip will make the decorating look neater, but you can also spread the frosting with a spatula and use toothpicks to paint small details.
Sandy Shore Cake
A sandy beach is a great cake idea.
To make a cake that looks like the shores of Hawaii, start with a basic sheet cake of any size. Cover it with white frosting and put a layer of blue icing over half of the cake. Leave bumps and ridges in the blue icing like waves, and cap some of them with white icing. Sprinkle a mixture of brown sugar and crushed vanilla wafer cookies or graham crackers over the other half of the cake as sand. Add some gummy fish, candy rocks and drink umbrellas to complete the scene.
Flip-flop Cake
Kids will have fun eating a flip-flop shaped cake.
A flip flop cake will convey a festive Hawaiian atmosphere. Trace a flip-flop or draw the shape freehand on a piece of paper to use as a template. Bake a sheet cake and cut out two flip-flops according to your template. Buy or make icing in the color you want the flip-flops to be and smoothly cover them using an angled spatula. Make the straps out of fruit leather, sour fruit strips or licorice cut to the length appropriate for your flip-flops. Pinch the ends together where the straps would go between your toes.
Volcano Cake
A volcano cake can be made for a large number of guests.
Make a volcano cake. Start with a bundt cake or round layers of descending sizes. Spread dark icing on the cake; leave bumps and uneven places on the cake to make it look like it has crags on it. Ice the ring around the top in white and use red icing gel as lava dripping out of the cake. If you are feeding a large number of guests, place the volcano on top of a sheet cake frosted in green, like the Hawaiian jungles.
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