Hawaiian Themed Cake

The butter and sugar mixture - 500g of each

It was my housemate's birthday recently and as usual I like to bake a cake. This took me 5 hours to completely make and I stayed up all night doing it as she was asleep up stairs.
The theme for her party was Hawaiii so I thought it would be a good idea to make a cake to match the theme.
I googled ideas and came across this one which was perfect. The only thing was I had no recipe for it just a picture so I had to improvise and think of ingredients that would give the desired effects.



The 6 eggs were added to the mixture on the left and stirred will. Then 500g of flour and vanilla extract was added.
On the right this the result after the cake has been placed in the oven for just over an hour (I think). I had to watch it carefully as my oven is really powerful.

 The cake was left to cool for about half an hour before I completely coated it with butter cream (as seen on the left). This was done to ensure that the decorative pieces stuck to it. I then created  'beach fence' using wafer sticks.

 Luckily the wafers stayed on. I think the one mistake I made was decorating th cake straight away because the wafers eventually dried out by the time the cake was ready to be eaten - but I sort of had no choice as the cake was meant to be a surprise.

 I then crunched up digestive buscuits to make 'sand'. I was quite surprised at how well it came out - though I was quite worried about how it would taste as sometimes I can find digestives to be bit too dry. It worked though.                  

 I then bought a lai and removed some of the flower from it and stuck them into the cake to make a 'flower bed'. I had pictured this in my head over and over again but the fact that it turned out better than I had imagined (right) made me so happy.

I am always sceptical about how the things I make taste; I don't mind eating it but when other people eat it, I start to worry. Luckily I got positive reviews and the cake was pretty much gone by the end of the night. Success!!

 Olola

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