Luau!

I love this cake. It is one of my favorites. Often when I'm trying to determine a design concept for a cake I'll take inspiration from pictures of other peoples' cakes. However, as I'm sure you can imagine, when you Google "pinapple cake" you only get picures of pinapple upside down cakes. With the exception of the occasional Spongbob cake I believe I may be the only person to ever make a pinapple shaped cake.

It all started when I began planning my kids' birthday party. Gracie (turning 7 at the time) and Wil (turning 5) were both born in August. Wil the second and Gracie the twenty-eighth. So my plan that year was to have a joint birthday luau in the middle of the month. Because I didn't want to bake two different cakes (been there, done that) I was trying to come up with a gender nutural tropical cake idea and when "pineapple" came to mind I couldn't not give it a try. The cake itself was pretty simple. Four layers carves into the general shape of a rather large pinapple. When I had the shape right I put light green buttercream on one side of a piping bag and yellow/orange on the other side. I then piped the individual "squares." Once the buttercream had set up I went back with a soft paint brush I painted between the squares with brown food coloring.

Now, on to the hard part. The leaves. It was a nightmare trying to figure out how to get them to stand up. In the end after much trial and error my sister, Thilia and I found a way to hang the leaves upside down and flair them out so they could harden. It was worth every frustrating minute. This was the second time I was completely satisfied with how the cake turned out.




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