Tori's Pina Colada Beach Cake

The slightly disappointing melting end result

My friend Tori's birthday is so close to Christmas that she never got one of my cakes even though we've known each other for years, so her graduation party was a perfect excuse to make her one. Unfortunate for the cake and her, it was somewhere in the 90's (degrees, not decade) when I was baking her cake. In my little kitchen, having the oven on meant it was at least 100 degrees in there, so everything was melting, including the icing and decorations I had planned for the cake.

Tori said she liked several flavors when asked, two of which were pineapple and coconut. The answer was pretty obvious to me- Pina Colada cake. And since summer was in full swing, I went with a beach theme.

Cake ingredients (two boxes of cake)

Jell-o water

The teddy grahams are all suited up!

Make-shift cake platter from foam core board and parchment paper

Icing ingredients (minus the egg whites)

All baked!

Cute, but melting

Sunbathing teddy grahams