cake 09 Jan 2010 11:19 pm
Paradise Cake
If there’s one cake to try in Los Angeles, it’s the King’s Hawaiian Paradise Cake. This cake is light and delicious and shockingly pretty when cut. King’s Hawaiian Bakery is oddly enough, no longer in Hawaii – but the Bakery as well as the main plant for their delicious sweet bread (Baked french toast, anyone?) is located in Torrance. This cake is popular for birthday parties and celebrations, and I’ve definitely eaten my fair share at family gatherings.
The layers are a light chiffon – the green is lime, the yellow is liliko’i (also known as passionfruit), and the pink is guava. Now the flavors sound strong, but far from it – they are light as air, and also topped with a whipped cream.It’s um…quite easy to eat a huge piece by yourself. Just sayin’.
The Kid’s birthday is coming up so I signed up and got a postcard for FREE MEAL for his birthday month. Score one for my wallet. Along with his meal came some singing as well as a heavenly piece of this here Paradise Cake.
I wanted to eat it all myself but it wasn’t MY birthday. The Kid ever so reluctantly shared his cake with all of us. The Baby really took advantage of his bite. Yikes. Guess I’ll just have to go back and get an entire cake just for ME…
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on 10 Jan 2010 at 9:05 am 1.Kate said …
This may be the prettiest cake I’ve ever seen! I’ve only tried pandan chiffon cake before, I’d love a recipe for other flavours!
on 10 Jan 2010 at 6:20 pm 2.Caroline said …
whoa, never knew King’s Hawaiian has a bakery that sells cakes (I thought they only sold Hawaiian bread). That cake looks awesome and I love chiffon cakes. Thanks for the heads up.
on 10 Jan 2010 at 9:37 pm 3.food librarian said …
I asked my friend recently what her “coma” food was…what food I should hold in front of her to bring her out of a coma (you know, be prepared just in case). She was all about chocolate, but I want you to know it is THIS CAKE for me. – m
on 13 Jan 2010 at 5:53 am 4.Julie said …
Yum…I’d love a piece of that for my birthday
on 01 Jul 2010 at 2:26 pm 5.chey1013 said …
They have a Cheesecake version too!
on 23 Jul 2010 at 12:02 pm 6.pam said …
I came across your paradise cake and it looks so good. I am having a luau party for my son’s birthday and this cake would be perfect for the party. Would you share this recipe with me?
Thank you
Pam
on 01 Aug 2010 at 7:54 pm 7.Carlos said …
I would love to also have this recipe, would love to try it out myself.
thanks,
Carlos
on 05 Aug 2010 at 12:51 pm 8.Shelly said …
Where do we get the recipe? This cake looks delicious!
on 06 Sep 2010 at 3:23 pm 9.Rachel said …
Wow, this looks delicious. Judging by the pics, the kids look like they could eat the cake all by themselves! Would be great if you could share the recipe for this
thankyou!