The cake was made with 7″ x 11″ pans (it was 3 cakes stacked on top of each other). The back of the cake was a piece of cardboard which I decorated with icing. To get the cardboard to stick to the cake, I had to stick long wooden skewers through the cardboard and into … Read more
Both the Cakes were covered in chocolate buttercream and then I used fondant to cover. Chocolate Fondant was used for the Chest and normal white fondant that I colored for the pirate. Trying to get the lid of the Treasure chest to sit open was a challenge but I used chopsticks to hold it up … Read more
This pirate ship cake was actually very easy. We took 3 boxes white cake mix and put 1 1/2 into the flat cookie sheets. We made 2 of them for the base which was the water. We used little blue sprinkles for the water also. The ship was 2 9×13 choc. cakes cut to the … Read more
I made two pirate ship cakes on an 18” X 24” piece of plywood. The cake board was covered in freezer paper and that was covered with white and multi blue butter cream icing. I used the angled blade icing knife to make swells and waves and put a dinghy with a pirate looking at … Read more
I baked this Pirate Ship and Island Birthday Cake for my son’s 6th birthday. Got most of the ideas from this site, so thank you! It’s made from a 9X13 pound cake, iced with the light chocolate icing (heavy cream + brown sugar + cocoa).
This Pirate Ship Cake was so much fun to make and fairly easy. The ship is made in 3 sections and 3 different flavors. The first was a strawberry cake made in a football pan. I cut the cake in half then filled and placed one on top of the other. Then I baked 2 … Read more
This Pirate Ship and Treasure Chest Cake is made up of 2 loaf pan cakes – Chocolate for ship, Vanilla for treasure chest. PIRATE SHIP: I used one loaf pan cake for the bottom of the ship, I cut the curved top of cake off and did the same with the second cake then stacked … Read more
I was inspired by this site to do a homemade Pirate Ship birthday cake for my son’s first birthday and I am really pleased with the way it turned out. To make the boat shape I used my normal round cake tins. I made two sponge cakes the same as I would usually make for … Read more
This Homemade Pirate Ship Wreck Island Cake was for my son’s 5th birthday. I made 2 11×15 yellow cakes and 1 8-inch round yellow cake for the ocean and island, and one 11×15 chocolate cake for the ship. These were wrapped in plastic wrap and frozen until time to assemble. The two rectangle yellow cakes … Read more
I cooked 5 layers for this Pirate Ship 3rd Birthday Cake and the finished product depends on the size of the cake tin you use. I used two full layers for the hull then shaped those into the hull shape, then I added half layers for the built up front and back decks. I iced … Read more
First step for this pirate ship cake was to make two rectangular cakes of equal length and width. I used a Silverwood adjustable cake tin for this – it was ideal to make two identical cakes! I decided to make a basic marble cake, as it’s quite dense but moist – and since I’d be … 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