I made this pirate treasure chest birthday cake for my little girl’s first birthday – having read lots of posts about using doweling to prop the lid open or making the lid out of rice krispies or wedging it open with extra bits of cake I was starting to panic that it was all very … Read more
My instructions for this island beach cake were ‘Summer of 69’. The cake is milk chocolate fudge with buttercream icing. All the decorations are fondant. To make the beach I first iced the cake with pale brown icing then sprinkled with brown sugar. The water was blue b/c with green waves and white b/c tips. … Read more
This was a Treasure Chest Birthday Cake I made for my child’s 3rd pirate birthday with ideas I found off the net. It was cooked in a 13×9 pan. I cut a 2in wide section off and then evenly cut the cake in half to make the top and bottom. The 2in wide section was … Read more
My friend William was turning 50 and goes to the beach at least twice a week- all summer. A Homemade California Beach Cake was an obvious choice for his birthday. The cake itself is a modified mix. 2 boxes of yellow cake made with 3 whole eggs, 3 egg whites, 1 1/2 c milk, 1 … Read more
I made this Homemade Treasure Chest Birthday Cake for my grandmother’s 80th birthday party (Pirate theme: Arg Matey! Faye is Eighty!). I made 3 (or 4?) 9×12 cakes from marble cake mix (2 boxes) and froze them until it was time to assemble. The freezing helped with carving the barrel shape of the lid. I … Read more
I made this Dolphins at the Beach Cake for my sister who loves Dolphins. This is the first cake I made with MMF. I don’t really ever bake and my family would just laugh at me when I did. This cake was very fun to make and now I just want to bake cakes all … Read more
This was so much fun and one of the coolest cake decorating ideas. I got the idea from just looking at examples of pirate themed parties. I decided to use a loaf pan for the chest. I took a package (18.25 oz) of moist chocolate cake mix, added 1 cup of water, 1/3 cup of … Read more
My friend Sarah and I make cakes for our co-workers all the time. Sarahs birthday cake had to be a very special and unique birthday cake. Sarah has worked on cruise ships and loves all things tropical. I found the teddy bear pool party and beach party cakes online. I baked a white cake in … Read more
The sand is graham crackers crushed. I added some Lego palm trees, beads, and candles from local store. The whole pirate birthday cake took less than 45 minutes. You can make any flavor cake and make it as intricate as you want.
After looking through your site for ideas for a beach cake I decided on a beach theme for my daughter Alexas 8th Birthday. We had recently watched “Jaws” on TV and she had really liked the movie. So I dug through her enormous “Polly Pocket” collection and found two girls and a boy plus a … Read more
This is one of the coolest Island-shaped ocean cakes I’ve made. I created it for my niece. The “water” base is a 14″ round cake frosted with blue tinted buttercream frosting. The stones are made from tinted royal icing that was allowed to dry for several days. The girl, her inner tube and the crab … Read more
This was prepared from a large sheet cake for the bottom layer and two rounds. Arc shapes were cut from the rounds with straight pieces in between for the “bases” of the DNA. Each base (A G C or T) was given its own color. No special icing recipe just your standard Crisco powdered sugar … Read more