This Pirate birthday cake is made of one box cake mix, two 8 inch circle pans and icing. This cake was soo easy to make. To make the hat I just cut the bottom of one of the circles and then cut the second piece in half again and used it for the sides. My … Read more
I made this treasure chest cake for a friend. Her son was turning one and her uncle was also having a birthday. The party was pirate-themed, and the main cake was a pirate ship. However, a one-year-old needs a cake of his own because he’s liable to get slobber on it when he blows out … Read more
I found this Treasure Chest Cake online somewhere and decided to try it for my nephews birthday. It was by far the hardest cake I’ve ever made, and I haven’t made many. I made 2 9x 13 chocolate cakes (however I used 2 cake mixes for one of them.) I used melted chocolate and “glued” … Read more
The year of the Pirate! I was challenged to create two cakes to go with the pirate theme for my boys, age 4 & 6. I used two chocolate cake box mixes (Duncan Hines I think) and baked these cakes in separate Pyrex 9×13 casserole dishes. After the cakes cooled I cut them in half … Read more
Like the train and the fire engine I posted previously, this Treasure Chest Birthday Cake Idea is another great cake for people like me who love to produce a ‘homemade’ cake but who are useless at the cake bit! This treasure chest was made from 8 Tesco standard size Madeira cakes sandwiched together with Betty … Read more
This Homemade Treasure Chest Cake was made for my boyfriend’s 18th birthday. It’s my first big cake ever. It’s an apple cake filled with white chocolate and cinnamon ganache to make the layers stick together. Four layers of cakes wrapped in sugar paste and decorated with painted sugar paste elements (skull, octopus, swords, handles to … Read more
The cake is very simple to make. It is made of two 9×13 cakes frosted. Candy is placed on top to look like treasure spilling out. The top is made from a sheet of cardboard covered with foil (for the shiny inside) then a piece of brown construction paper on top. It is propped open … Read more
Starting with three rectangle cakes the same size, spread jam and cream on one layer then sitting a second cake on top, ice them with icing of your choice – I used fluffy frosting. Gently place the third cake on top of the iced base cakes and prop it up with musk sticks. Then ice … Read more
I did this Pirate Ship cake for my step-son’s 7th birthday, pirate theme! This cake is as seen in the Australian Woman’s Weekly Kids party Cakes book (a must have). The cake is make in a 26cm x 36cm (sorry metric) baking pan. Cut the cake into four pieces (2 long bits at the bottom, … Read more
I let my kids and nephews choose the theme for their birthday cakes and for his 7th birthday my nephew requested Pirates of the Caribbean. After looking at all the pirate cakes on this site I decided I was going to attempt a pirate ship cake, namely the Black Pearl. I started with an 11×14 … Read more
My grandson wanted a Pirate party for his 6th birthday. I hired a Wilton’s Pirate Ship cake tin, bought a packet of cake mix, icing sugar and white margarine. Then I just followed the instructions. I changed some colors, put cut Flake canons on the ship and made 3 pirates from small Marie biscuits iced … Read more
This is a Pirate Ship Cake for my son’s 4th birthday. It was made of a round cake cut in half. The cannons were Rolos, and I also put the candles by the canons(when lit looks as though they are firing). I used wooden skewers and put paper cut in the shape of a flag. … Read more