Let's get tropical

 Over the weekend I made a tropical cake for a friend's birthday party bash with a Hawaiian theme. We settled on pineapple cake (she doesn't like coconut, so I can't actually call it a pina colada cake, right?) with a rum buttercream frosting and mango filling. I was pretty convinced the mango filling tasted awful, but it turns out I just don't like mango. I was reassured at the party that the cake and filling was excellent, thankfully!

Below is a picture of my disaster of a kitchen, but with the cakes nicely settled on their travel cardboard. I definitely didn't want to travel across town with a 3-tiered cake in my car. Yikes.

Once I got to the party, I added some extra leis to the cake and a few umbrellas from the bar, and even a palm tree made it on there. Pretty cute right? It does help to put the cake in the fridge after the first layer of frosting, then you can really smooth out the second layer before the fondant goes on...but I didn't have the space in the fridge or the time to make that happen...but once you cut it no one notices anyway, right?!