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Fox Run Aloha Cookie Cutter with shapes of pineapples, palm trees, and fish

Bake cookies with aloha with this Hawaiian-themed cookie cutter set

I don’t usually think of cookies as luau food, but with this set of Aloha Cookie Cutters from Fox Run, my opinion might be swayed as easily as a palm tree in the tradewinds.
The tinplated steel cutters come in a set of five with the following shapes:
• pineapple
• sun
• palm tree
• tropical fish
• bird
The company [...]

Luau Cupcake Toppers

Tiki cupcake toppers

Now that spring is coming around again, it’s time to prepare for warmer weather and backyard parties. Knowing that baking cupcakes instead of sheet cakes has become a trend, we went out in search of those decorative plastic things that sit on top of cupcakes that you see in the supermarket, and sure enough, we [...]

Luau Hut Cake

Cute and easy to make tiki hut cake

Renae of food blog $10 buck dinners! created this tiki hut cake for a “round the world” party her family threw for her 9-year old daughter’s friends. Inspired by the island of Fiji, the cake features an edible pretzel-walled pound-cake hut and edible chocolate sea shells.
The site doesn’t give step-by-step instructions, but there’s enough information [...]

Shag tiki cake

Shag tiki cake

This totally unauthorized Shag tiki cake from cupcakejonas look delicious. He or she has some other phenomenal cakes on display online as well, including a sweet Pac Man cake (coincidentally, today is Pac Man’s 30th birthday).
See more cakes at cupcakejonas89′s flickr site

Pineapple Ginger Rice recipe from Whole Foods blog

Pineapple recipe challenge at Whole Food’s blog

Grocery chain Whole Foods has a blog named, “Whole Story,” and this month they’re celebrating the glory of pineapple by posting some great pineapple recipes and holding a recipe contest. The prize: a trip to Costa Rica, where most of the U.S.’s pineapple’s come from (it’s not Hawaii, but a trip’s a trip).
Some of Whole [...]

Tiki cake program this Thursday on Food Network

Food Network’s program Ace of Cakes follows the escapades of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, MD. Charm City creates incredible looking themed cakes and in this week’s episode, the crew creates a tiki-themed cake for a local couple celebrating their anniversary.
The episode, entitled “Tiki Time,” runs Thursday, January 28 at 10:00 PM ET/PT, Jan 29 [...]

$10 off Trader Vic’s online orders until 12/20/08

Trader Vic’s online store is offering $10 off orders over $50 in their online store. While the quality of Trader Vic’s syrups have taken a dive as of late, the company still has plenty of cool things that would make great gifts for the holidays, like the Ryen Spooner shirt shown here. The site also [...]