This Pirate Ship Birthday Cake was my first fondant cake and it took three days to make it. There are a lot of details – Captain, Pirates, Treasure Chest, Water bottle, Cannon/Cannon ball, Sail etc. and everything was edible and made from fondant. Making a ship shape with soft cake was the hardest part. I … Read more
My son wanted a pirate ship cake for his 10th birthday. The base (ocean) is a sheet cake covered in butter cream and topped with glitter blue icing. Swedish fish are swimming. The treasure chest on top of the crumb cake island is made of fondant covered cake decorated with edible pearls. The pirate ship … Read more
This is my pirate ship cake! The sails and flag I made on the computer. The barrels and sharks are candy. The posts and ropes are royal icing.
We made this Pirate birthday cake by using a square cake pan and icing most of the cake top with a yellow icing. We then covered the yellow icing with granulated brown sugar for sand. For an added look we put on some plants (store bought and icing made). This was a really fun Pirate … Read more
My son wanted a pirate party for his 6th birthday. I surfed the web and found lots of great ideas for kid cakes. I found this Pirate Ship cake and added my own touch to it. Basically, you need to make a normal cake recipe using two 9-inch round cake pans. After the cakes cool, cut both … Read more
I found really easy directions online for making pirate cakes. And to be honest, I had an easier time frosting/decorating this cake than I do just a simple 2-layer cake. Use two 8-inch round pans. Cut cakes in half, and stack on top of one another with frosting in between each layer, flat sides all … Read more
I made this 3D pirate ship cake for my son Grant. The sails and mast is not edible but the rest of the cake is. You can make a lot of accessories before the time. Like the treasure chest, anchor, shark fins, railing for the edge of the ship, the lanterns and the canons. They … Read more
My mother in law and I chose the best pirate ship picture we could find from all the pirate ship cakes that we saw and went that. We used a Wiltons football cake pan. We put the two halves together to make a full football and cut the back off for the back of the … Read more
Hi, my name is Zoe. I am nine years old. I live in Australia and go to North Melbourne Primary School. My teacher Mark is moving to Bali for six months to surf – oops, I mean teach – and my class is throwing him a surprise birthday party tomorrow (shhh, don’t tell anyone). Mark … Read more
This Pirate Birthday Cake I made for my son’s 1st birthday. The cake is a caramel mud scratch mix. I iced it with fondant icing, the flesh colour I coloured using paste, the red and black I bought pre-coloured. It’s much easier to buy these than to mix them. The cake was a great hit, … Read more
I hope that you find these two cakes helpful when you make your own cakes. I browsed the internet to get ideas then finished up with these two cakes for our pirate party. The pirate face is very simple, just a round cake and use your imagination to decorate. As for the pirate ship, you … Read more
This treasure chest cake I made with my mom for my twin son’s third birthday. We threw them a pirate party- complete with a treasure hunt and treasure chest cake. It was a big hit. We used sugar paper to coat the cake and achieve the wood look. Fondant was used for the straps, lock, … Read more