Ideas for tropical cupcakes or other tropical dessert for daughters b-day ?

Question

She is going to be 8, and I am serving goldfish crackers as finger food and we are having blue punch aswell. I thought about making pineapple cupcakes with a tinted cream cheese icing and swedish or gummy fish on top...any other ideas for cupcakes or simple finger food? Thanks a million...(or ten in this case ;)

Answer 1

Make regular cupcakes, grind up graham crackers as "sand" for the top. Use drink umbrellas as labels with each childs name on them.

Answer 2

yea i was going to say you should put pineapple in it, and maybe a cherry on top? or coconut

and tropical ice cream

Answer 3

Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes.  Put a pineapple ring on the bottom of each cupcale holder and a cherry in the middle of the ring!

Answer 4

this may be a little hard to make/a bad idea for picky 8 year olds, but its so cute!

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/rec...

(easier) you could also make cupcakes. then take a teddy graham and with frosting put a bathing suit or bikini on it. stick it on the cupcake, then take a drink umbrella and stick it next the teddy graham.

Answer 5

Blue icing, Teddy grahams with gummy lifesavers around their waists, cocktail umbrellas.

Answer 6

I gave my daughter a Hawaiian birthday party with  leis, hula shirts and all. We had Hawaiian music  playing and a bubble blower. i even had my own skirt.

played Hawaiian bingo (homemade cards) umm also

Tropical Relay Race

Divide the group into two teams

Equipment: Two Grass skirts, 2 pairs of Bermuda shorts, 2 pairs of sunglasses 2 Straw Hats ,2 lei necklaces,2 Beach bags, 2 Beach chairs

Each team lines up in a row. Place chairs a reasonable running distance in front of each team or any distance your space will allow. The objects listed above are placed into the beach bags and located with each team. The first players on each team, put on ALL of the items, run to the chair, return to their team, remove the items and pass the bag to the next player. The next players continue until the entire team has

had a turn.

Hula Hoopla Hawaiian partygoers will get a laugh out of giving this contest a whirl. Hand two of the kids hula hoops and see who can hula the longest. Then pose the challenge to two other kids. Once everyone has had a chance, have the winners of the first round face off against each other, and so on, until one kid is the victor. He or she wins a hula hoop!

TROPICAL DESSERT OR ICE CREAM PIE  

Make a tropical dessert, an ice cream pie, at your leisure and store it in your freezer.

Graham Cracker Crust:

Mix 1 cup graham cracker crumbs, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 3 tablespoons melted butter. Put mixture into a 9-inch pie pan. Spread evenly over the bottom and sides, packing to form a crust. Chill 30 minutes.

Carefully pack 1 quart of softened vanilla ice cream into the crust. Spread 1/2 cup drained, crushed pineapple over top of pie. Decorate with 1/2 cup coconut, maraschino cherries, and nuts such as pecans. Place in freezer and keep frozen until ready to serve. Serves 8.

Answer 7

You can also make blue jello, in little clear plastic cups, and float gummy sharks in it .....   Check out the website for Oriental Trading Co.  They have tons of tropical decorations & favors, and are very inexpensive.  You can order on-line or they'll send periodic catalogs  .....   The cupcakes sound good, except that pineapple might not appeal to alot of 8-yr-olds.  Maybe it should be Mango (use nectar in the icing) or even just orange....

Answer 8

Ive already cut a pineapple in half and scooped out and cubed the pineapple and put it back in the shell... add some maraschino cherries to it.

fresh pineapple is yummy...and it looks nice, too!

Answer 9

coconut anything! the pineapple cupcakes sound really good. also banana is pretty tropical too. i dont have the recipe but on the nilla wafer box has a recipe for banana cream pie but instead of a big pie make minis using cupcake wrappers.