My boyfriend and I made this treasure chest cake for our daughter’s 3rd birthday and she loved it! People could not believe we made the cake ourselves! I got the idea from this website and, although it was time consuming, it was not hard at all! I baked 3 box cakes and put them in … Read more
My husband wanted to have a treasure chest cake so I looked around and found lots of ideas on this site! Thanks so much for being here, so I thought I would share how ours turned out. I notice that a lot of your cakes were small, made out of loaf pans and I needed … Read more
My son Alex wanted a pirate birthday for his 7th so we started looking around for cake ideas. We always look on this site to get all our ideas and then make a Treasure Chest Cake into our own. I used 2 chocolate cake mixes and baked them in a 9 X 13 pan. I … Read more
I made this Treasure Chest Birthday Cake for my oldest son Amery’s 4th birthday. The top is round cakes cut in half and iced together. The bottom is three rectangle cake iced together. I covered them in chocolate icing and used fondant foe the straps. I outlined the edges with yellow icing and then sat … Read more
The bottom of the treasure box cake is made with multiple sheet cake layers. The top of the treasure box is a cake board cut to fit perfectly. Wooden skewers are used to help support the weight of the top and keep it propped. The rounded part on the top of the treasure box are … Read more
After frosting the pirate birthday cake brown, refrigerate/partially freeze and then cut out a small section to add the bootie (gold foil coins candy necklaces etc.) and frost inside the section before sticking the candy inside. Then decorate around the cake with your childs favorite color to add the look of the treasure chest. My … Read more
I made this Pirate Ship Birthday Cake for my grandson’s 3rd birthday. I used the Wilton pirate cake pan. I used Wilton candy melts and spread them into the mold to pick up the design. White in the skeleton and sails, tan for the boat. I put the pan in the freezer briefly to quickly … Read more
For this pirate cake, I baked a regular sheet cake first and then used a small disposable bunt cake pan for the ship and a small round pan for the island. I frosted the sheet cake white and used my knife to bring up some of the frosting to create waves. I then used Wilson … Read more
I baked 3 square 10×10 cakes and stacked them together, froze them overnight to make it easier to carve the Homemade Pirate Ship Birthday Cake. The next day I made a pattern of the view of the top of the ship out of wax paper and started carving away. I covered it in MM fondant. … Read more
My 3 year old son wanted nothing more than a Pirate Birthday party. Being a total and complete cake baking novice, I was terrified. As tradition dictated, I immediately launched myself onto the coolest-birthday-cakes website in hope of inspiration and assurance. Success. I found several amazing cakes (and amazing behind-the-scene mom’s) and finally decided that … Read more
I used a basic chocolate cake recipe from The Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook, with the Vanilla Buttercream and Rich Chocolate Buttercream icing for this pirate ship cake. I did 1 1/2 the amount called for in the cake recipe to make a 9×13 sheet cake as well as one 8 inch round cake. For the … Read more
We made this cake using multiple 9 inch round pans and stacking them at varying heights to make the ship. We froze each piece to make them sturdier to work with when we started to frost. We used the darkest Duncan Hines icing we could find for the main cake color. We also used dowell … Read more