The Pirate Ship Birthday Cake is all cake and the bottom is another cake. Everything on this cake is edible except the sails, and the people! I made this for my nephew’s 4th birthday party! The ship is chocolate cake and the bottom is vanilla. It took me a long time to make this cake … Read more
I’ve never attempted a fondant cake before and my son gave me quite a challenge for my first one for his 6th birthday. The brief was for a pirate ship that’s sinking with an octopus pulling it into the water. He initially wanted a treasure chest on the deck falling into the water as well, … Read more
I was requested to make a pirate ship cake on an ocean with an island. The Island includes Jolly Roger’s bones! After much research on this site I came up with my own version. I loved all the pirate ships on this site and everyone’s posts were very helpful. I am happy with the way … Read more
Oh my goodness! When my son Jonathan asked that I make him a Pirate Ship for his birthday cake my heart sank. I wondered how I was going to pull this off. With a little planning and some creativity his Pirate Ship Birthday Cake turned out great. For the cake I used 3 plain yellow … Read more
I made this homemade pirate ship kids birthday cake for a friend’s son’s 2nd birthday. I used a combination of ideas and techniques that I found on this site. The cake is chocolate sponge and was baked in a loaf tin then stacked up. I used 3 cakes then cut the middle section out of … Read more
My son asked for a pirate ship cake for his 3rd birthday. We went online and looked at pictures of pirate ships, and I chose one with as simple a design as possible (not so easy since pirate ships are very intricate!). I used the picture as a template. I baked a 1/2 sheet cake, … Read more
I made this Pirate Ship cake for my son Tyler for his 4th Birthday. I stacked two cakes on top of one another and started carving away. I like to use homemade marshmallow fondant because it is cheaper and tastes a whole lot better for the kids. (Recipe is one bag of marshmallows melted with … 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
My nephew Nate had a Pirate birthday party. I searched this site for pirate cakes and then made this really simple cake. I used green icing for the land, blue for the water (I added some peaks for waves with my spatula at the last minute), I added crumbled graham cracker crumbs for the beach … Read more
I got this idea from surfing the internet in search of a pirate cake; it was pretty simple. I used a bought cake mix and icing. Two round pans for the cake. Once baked, cut both into halves. Let cool. The pirates, boat, raft, etc. were all bought at the dollar store. All glued on … Read more
For this cake, start with a round cake and cut into half. Put the two halves together with icing, ice the rest of the ships, and put into the freezer for an hour so the icing will harden. We used the computer to make the sails and placed them on skewers. Other things I used … Read more
We just had a pirate birthday party at our house and got a lot of great ideas from your websites. I know you have a lot of pirate stuff already but thought I would send our pirate ship cake idea. I didnt see anything similar. These cakes were very easy to prepare. We used two … Read more