With limited time the day of the party I opted to purchase two chocolate sheet cakes with chocolate frosting and decorate with my fondant, crispy cereal and graham cracker creations. The barn is made from graham crackers held together with royal icing and covered with fondant and melted chocolate for the roof. I inserted ¼ … Read more
My three year old wanted a pirate for his birthday. This was made using the Wilton Pirate Pan and iced with butter cream icing. Chocolate coins were placed in the middle like a treasure as well as around the edges. It was such a hit!
I made this Old McDonald Farm Birthday Cake for my cousin Melissa’s 3 year old nephew. The bottom is made from two 11 X 15 inch layers of marble cake filled with butter cream frosting. The barn is made from one 9 X 13 inch layer of Funfetti cake cut into four sections and then … Read more
I created this Pirate Theme Birthday Cake using 12″, 10″ & 8″ round pans. The first layer was chocolate, the second was marble and the last was white. I usually do this to ensure all guests have what they like. I used buttercream icing to ice the entire cake and on the second layer to … Read more
I planned a Pirate party for my two sons and god- daughter this year and decided I wanted to make a Treasure Chest cake. I made chocolate buttercream frosting from a Wilton recipe and fondant. I then baked three marble cakes from a box mix in a 9″ x 13″ pan. I refrigerated them overnight. … Read more
I made this treasure chest cake for my grandson’s 3rd birthday party. We had a combination party with his sister’s 5th birthday party which was themed “Pixie Hollow Fairies”. So I chose a Pirate theme so it would somewhat tie in together. I searched this site and others for ideas. I found the cake and … Read more
My granddaughter Faith is crazy about Dora the Explorer. The theme for her 2nd birthday was a Dora Luau swim party so we made her a Dora Luau Beach Birthday Cake. The 1/2 sheet cake consisted of 1 layer of chocolate cake (2 boxed cake mixes), raspberry filling (2 cans of cake/pie filling) and 1 … Read more
This Treasure Chest Birthday Cake was made using various techniques that others have posted on this site. This was made from two 9×13 sheet cakes; 1 cake is cut in half and layered two layers high (this is the bottom of the chest), the other cake is cut in half and only half of it … Read more
For this homemade vacation on the beach cake I used a yellow butter cake with a raspberry filling. Butter cream for the frosting. Piping gel for the water color, I also used Wilton blue color mist to accentuate the water color. The color for the flowers and the borders are Wilton regular colors. To get … Read more
My son who was turning 5 years old really wanted a pirate birthday party. I had made my older son a pirate ship cake for his pirate themed party and wanted to do something different. I decided a Pirate Treasure Chest Cake Design would be perfect. Since my son was born on my brother’s birthday, … Read more
This Beach Birthday Cake is a 12 x 18 double layer sheet cake. I used decorator icing for the inside, sides and water. I iced it all with the blue and then mixed some white in and gently tapped where I wanted to water to be. That gave it the white cap look. The sand … Read more
