Moana Cake

So a couple months back I made a Moana cake which survived a 4-hour car ride and a 2-hour boat ride all the way to the island of Tioman, in Malaysia! Here's a larger version of it, which stayed in sunny Singapore, for a young lady's 4th birthday.

Moana-inspired cake, ready for toy toppers

The cake is the ever-popular devil's food cake, filled with whipped dark chocolate ganache and finished with blue ombré Swiss meringue buttercream.

Moana-style name plaque

To decorate, I made a wooden-style plaque and Moana-style font for the name, turning one of the letters into the heart of Te Fiti swirl, and made some easy flowers by cutting out fondant circles and layering them together.

buttercream palm trees

I also added some buttercream palm trees, with the trunk and coconuts piped on with a round piping tip, and the leaves piped on using tip no. 67, which is great for piping buttercream seaweed too, by the way. 

The buttercream "waves" around the bottom of the cake were piped in shell-style, using a small open star tip and mixing up the ombré blue buttercream with some white buttercream in the piping bag. 

biscuit sand & easy fondant flowers

Crushed up digestive biscuits were used as "sand" and Moana figurines were used to add the finishing touch to the cake, arranged on the cake at the venue by the birthday girl's mummy! Here's a pic she shared of the cake table. Love the purple flower garland accenting the table! Happy 4th Birthday, Natalie!

Moana birthday table, all ready to go