So for my first official order out of school, I get to make a cake for my aunt's surprise birthday party next month. They are doing a Hawaiian/Luau theme, and I've having trouble settling on some ideas.
My ideas so far are... 1) to do a blue bottom layer and a gold top layer and then airbrush them to look like water and sunset. 2) to do a light blue cake and adorn with a plumeria lei and some hibiscus flowers 3) to make some chocolate seashells to put along the bottom 4) to make mini half-egg-shaped cakes and make them look like pineapples and stick them to the sides of the real cake
I keep coming up with new things, and my mind is going crazy! Any solid ideas out there that aren't going to end up looking tacky??
I love luau cakes. My faves are the ones with tiki head tiers and grass skirt tiers. You could do a grass skirt tier, a middle tier in a tropical blue with the lei around it and the tiki head on top with a bamboo style border. It's more of a jovial design.
If you wanted something more sophisticated you could do the tiers and a gradual sunset coloring and do a cascade of tropical flowers or have the lei flowing down the tiers. You could do the board in a water motif so the cake really represents the sunset.
I did the attached for my M-I-L's Hawaiian Luau 80th BDay. I thought it was colorful and Hawaiian without going the usual tiki/hibiscus route (not that I don't love those too. But this was an evening, more formal luau.) for the stand, I bought "stone" floor tiles from Home Depot for $1.99 each, in two sizes. I gorilla glued wooden drawer pulls as legs and stacked them. Gave it a real Hawaiian feel.
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1756829
heres one i did a couple of months ago..hope it helps a little
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2035957
Thanks everyone!
ddaigle - your cakes are AMAZING, I was looking through all your pictures!
KatieKraft - thanks for the ideas too, although I'm trying to stay away from tiki heads (mainly because unless I find a mold, I just don't have time for anything like that!).
Artscallion - that is so neat! Do you have a side view of the cake with the stand? And how did you do the scroll work - is that gum paste or fondant?
warrior - very beautiful, I love the colors, and I love the sand - that was one of my ideas, to cover the cake board in crushed graham crackers for a sand-like feel.
I would LOVE to try to do a topsy-turvy cake... or do people think that wouldn't really fit with this theme?
Thanks everyone!
Artscallion - that is so neat! Do you have a side view of the cake with the stand? And how did you do the scroll work - is that gum paste or fondant?
I'm pretty sure I have a side view pic at home. I'm at work now, but I'll check later. The scroll work was done with fondant and a Makin clay extruder. Just squeezed out some ropes and placed them in curly shapes.
I did a Luau cake. You can see it in my photos. The upper part of the girst were dolls. The skirt are cake. HTH
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