Now, you wouldn't think it would be difficult coming up with a cake for a luau but i am having trouble. the cake is for a Jack and Jill to serve 70-80 people. i was thinking maybe 3 tiers stacked. waves on the bottom tier, palm trees/coconuts on the middle tier and i don't have a clue for the top tier. or i may scrap the whole idea. i don't know. i am sooooo confused : )

just having a major mind block. any ideas? pretty please? thank you!

I just did a luau cake for my daughter's birthday. Had about 28 kids plus average of 1 adult per child. I made a bigger cake than necessary, just because I wanted my idea to look right. I used oval pans and did a two tier. The top tier was offset to the right and back of the bottom tier, so it wasn't smack in the center. This worked well when I was cutting the cake too. To decorate it, I used one of my daughter's Bratz dolls for the hula dancer on the top tier. I dusted both tiers with sanding sugar I made a gum paste palm tree with coconuts(not the easiest thing I've ever done, but it came out pretty good). At the base of the palm tree I did some grass and added some rocks (also out of gum paste). Both tiers had a flower and leaves "lei" border. I used royal icing drop flowers in assorted neon colors. I was going to do a waterfall from the tree to the board, but decided it might be too much. I was happy with the way it turned out and got lots of gasps of surprise from several of the attendees.

I hope this helps with developing your luau cake.

what if the top tier was a coconut? like with a sports ball pan?

How about a roast pig with an apple in his mouth for the top...you could make it out of fondant and make a little fire going underneath it....make some fruit and coconuts out of fondant and lay them around the fire and the pig.

cheers,
Shirley

You could turn the top tier into a "sand" castle. Using sugar dyed to the color you want, to give it the "grainy" efftect, sculpt the top into interesting shapes. You could also make Chocolate Seashells and put them around the side. Good Luck!!

I just did a cake with a FBCT of hibiscus flowers on top. Or I have seen where people have made hibiscus flowers out of royal icing using the largest lily nail and basically making a big petunia with tip 104. I thought they looked lovely.

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=hibiscus&cat=0&pos=43&search=hibiscus

this one is pretty too..(from the gallery)
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=hibiscus&cat=0&pos=5&search=hibiscus


Here is mine: