Recipe for Pirate ship cake: 2 baked 9″ or 10″ round cakes 3 to 4 cups chocolate icing Decorations: Chocolate wafer sticks (such as Pepperidge Farm Pirouette Cookies), Milk chocolate wafer rolls (Waffeletten cookies), Several pieces of white or off-white paper, 3 10″ wooden skewers, Malted milk balls, Rolo candies, Root beer barrels, Plastic pirate … Read more
This Sewing Birthday Cake was my first solo cake. I used a round Wilton cake pan and a boxed cake mix. The frosting under the fondant was store bought (I hadn’t learned how to make my own yet). I used rolled white fondant, also for the first time and found it was fun and easy. … Read more
I saw all of the examples for pirate cakes on this website and followed their directions – it really was simple. I took two 8″ round chocolate cakes, cut them in half and trimmed the bottom to be flat so it would stand. I used the left over cake (from trimming) to build up the … Read more
I did this cake for my sons 6th birthday. I took two sheet cakes and cut them into the shape of a ship. I iced it with chocolate icing to look like wood. I then put graham cracker sticks around the edges of the cake. I used some toy pirates I found to put on … Read more
I got this idea for a farming cake from looking at numerous cakes on this site. The cake is a 11X15 mock angel food. I frosted it with white buttercream and added some grass with cows grazing in the corner. I used tip #233 for grass. The field is made of chocolate graham crackers and … Read more
I made this Pirate birthday cake for a friends child. This is simply a chocolate cake stacked in layers to look like a boat. There’s one main base piece and then two layers at the back to make 3 levels of decking. I put a double layer of cake at the front of the ship … Read more
My grandsons, Sam almost 5 (he is now!) and Alex almost 3, requested a John Deere birthday cake. Except for both of their first birthday cakes the rest have all been transportation themed cakes. This year I decided to pass on making a cake with ‘wheels’ and focus on a cake showcasing how the John … Read more
I used three 13×9 sheet cakes for my pirate ship cake. I layered 2 with frosting then cut the one end of both in a milk carton shape. I used the cut pieces as a pattern to cut the third cake. The third cake was then cut into three pieces with the triangle used on … Read more
My daughter loves horses and wanted her barnyard cake to look like a horse ranch. I just started making cakes for a hobby and thought I could do that. My sister-in-law suggested that I use Twix for the fence post and Kit-Kats for the fence. I shaped the barn and tree out of rice crispy … Read more
I used a 9″ x 13″ cake and one 8 round cake for my pirate ship cakes. I cut the 9′ x 13′ in half lengthwise and one of the halves in half again so you end up with three pieces. I placed the two smaller pieces on top of the larger one to form … Read more
This cake was made for a coworkers’ son. She wanted the farm theme, and found one on-line that she liked. We looked at other farm cakes on-line and picked the best ideas from each, ending up with “Lucas’s 1st birthday cake”. The cake is chocolate with vanilla buttercream icing, then covered entirely with marshmallow fondant. … Read more
I made this Down on the farm cake for my son’s 1st birthday. We made 4 – 9″ square cakes and stacked 3 of them up for the barn, then some smaller pieces for the roof area. The silo was made by cutting the cake into circles using a cookie cutter. We took a long … Read more