Last year, a friend of mine planned a big backyard luau for her husband's 30th birthday!
For the party, I made a fun Tiki Cake! And because plain old
cake is boring, we had a fun Tequila Sunrise Cake. The cake is delicious, with a moist crumb
that absolutely melts in your mouth. The
tequila buttercream is also amazing, especially when paired with the salty
pretzels rods!
Oh and those Hawaiian shirt
cookies? Check out Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle for an amazing tutorial!
Tiki Cake
An Amy’s Cooking Adventures
Original Recipe
1 recipe Tequila Sunrise Cake
(recipe follows)
1 recipe Tequila Buttercream
Icing (recipe follows)
1 (12 oz) package pretzel rods
2-4 tbsp dark brown sugar
Quarter sized ball of MM
Fondant, tinted blue
Cocktail umbrellas
Hawaiian Shirt Cookies
Tequila Sunrise
Cake
An Amy’s Cooking Adventures
Original Recipe
1 package plain yellow cake
mix
1 package vanilla instant
pudding
¾ cup orange juice
½ cup canola oil
½ cup tequila
4 large eggs
½ tsp orange extract
½ tsp vanilla extract
Orange & red gel food
coloring (optional)
Preheat the oven to 350
degrees F and spray three 8-inch round pans with non stick spray.
Combine all of the ingredients
(except for the food coloring) into the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on low until combined, then switch to
medium and beat until smooth, about 2 minutes.
Separate the batter evenly
into 3 separate bowls (about 2 cups of batter per bowl). Tint the first bowl orange, the second bowl
orange-red, and the third bowl red.
Scrape the batter into the prepared pans and bake in the preheated oven
for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes
comes out clean.
Move the cakes to wire racks
and cool for 10 minutes. Then run a
knife along the edges of the pans and flip to remove the cakes. Cool completely.
Tequila Buttercream Icing
An Amy’s Cooking Adventures
Original Recipe
1 ½ cups Crisco vegetable
shortening
6 cups powdered sugar
1 ½ tbsp meringue powder
½ tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp tequila
4-5 tbsp water
Place the ingredients into the
bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on low until
combined. Then switch the speed to
medium and mix until smooth and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Tint, if desired.
Cake assembly
Stack the cakes, with a layer
of Tequila Buttercream in between each layer.
Be sure to place the red layer on the bottom, followed by the red-orange
layer, and ending in orange to mimic a sunrise.
Frost the sides and top of the cake.
Snap the pretzel rods in half
(they should not all be exactly the same height). Stick the pretzels rods directly onto the
buttercream on the sides of the cake.
Use a small amount of buttercream to stick to Hawaiian shirt cookies
onto the sides of the pretzels.
Sprinkle the brown sugar on
top of the cake to mimic sand. Roll the
fondant into a small rectangular beach towel and place on top of the cake. Place a cocktail umbrella next to the beach
towel and serve!
That's an awesome looking cake, sounds awesome!
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This is SO cute! Girl, you rock the cakes :)
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