This is a three tier hawaiian themed birthday cake. It's a rich vanilla cake with a creamy strawberry mousse and fresh strawberry filling, iced in strawberry buttercream and topped with homemade fondant. The tiki mask is hand molded from homemade chocolate "clay" and the tiki torches, surf boards and bamboo plaque are all hand decorated gumpaste. The bottom tier is an airbrushed sunset, the middle tier is hand painted hibiscus flowers and the top tier is a fondant grass skirt edged with a leaf lei. I had also made a flower lei which I accidentally left at home as I was rushing out of the house thirty minutes late to deliver the cake.
I think this is my most favorite cake by far! I used a few new techniques and I was really happy with the way things turned out.
