A tiki cake is the perfect dessert for a birthday luau or other tropical-themed gathering. And since the design is mostly just a face, you don't need to be a master baker to make your own tiki cake. Look at pictures on the Internet or check out tiki paraphernalia at local party shops to get an idea of what you want your tiki cake to look like. Your tiki cake can be flat with an iced-on face, flat with a molded face, or 3-D and stand up like a real, carved tiki idol. The different options are limited only by your skills and imagination. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Instructions
1. Select a cake recipe to make your cake from. More dense cakes like pound cake will hold up to 3-D designs better, while most regular chocolate or yellow cake mixes are well-suited to flat tiki cakes with molded or flat faces.
2. Mix the cake batter in a large mixing bowl, and pour into a greased cake pan. If you are making a 3-D tiki cake, you might have two or three round pans so the cakes can be stacked on top of one another. A flat tiki cake can be made with a 13-by-9-inch pan.
3. Bake the cake according to the recipe directions. Remove the cake from the pans and allow it to cool completely.
4. Cut the cake(s) into a half-cylinder tiki idol shape for flat cakes, and an upright cylinder shape for 3-D cakes.
5. Frost the entire cake with brown frosting. Begin adding the face and design embellishments using frosting tinted slightly darker than the brown base, or by molding chocolate or fondant into the desired facial shapes and securing them to the cake with dabs of frosting.
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