My son who was turning 5 years old really wanted a pirate birthday party. I had made my older son a pirate ship cake for his pirate themed party and wanted to do something different. I decided a Pirate Treasure Chest Cake Design would be perfect. Since my son was born on my brother’s birthday, … Read more
We(that being my husband and I) made the square parts in an adjustable square cake tin, and then used cardboard bent into a curved shape and then covered with foil for the top part of the pirate treasure chest birthday cake. Chocolate fudge filling to over it and liquorice laces to be the black bits. … Read more
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BACK OF CHEST: Two nights before I took a board, 12 x 16 and cut it a little to fit across the back of the cake, covered it in aluminum foil. I measured how high my layers were times how wide my cake was. (Four layers times 2″ layers equal 8″ plus 8″ for the … Read more
This pirate ship cake is based on the Veggietales song/ film “The pirates who don’t do anything”. As with all my cakes, it wasn’t a child’s birthday- this was for a friends 20th! The ship was a large rectangular chocolate cake. Each end had its corners cut off to shape it, and these bits of … Read more
My son had a Pirate fancy dress party for his 2nd birthday. I had already made him a ship on his actual birthday. So wanted something different, that would still fit in with the theme. I had decided on a Pirate Treasure Island Birthday Cake for a while. And literally the night before making the … Read more
My son, turning 4, was obsessed with Pirates. When he told me he wanted a pirate birthday party, I knew I would have to plan big or just buy the cake from a professional. Our parties usually have about 40 people at them, so I had to feed a lot of people too. I came … Read more
First time I’ve ever tried a shaped cake and it didn’t turn out half bad, actually. I used two loaf pans as it didn’t need to serve many people. The pirate ship cake is chocolate marbled pound cake with peanut butter buttercream icing on top, and chocolate buttercream on the sides. I put the bottom … Read more
This cake is the cake I made for my Grandson Brenden’s 3rd Birthday. Brenden was REALLY into pirates so he requested a pirate ship birthday cake. I first covered a large cake board, 18 1/2 x 26 with old world maps that showed where the treasures could be found. I then baked 48 cupcakes, half … Read more
I made this Pirate Cake with Treasure Island for my son’s 4th birthday and we are now worried about how we will ever be able to top it. The island is 3 layers. The bottom layer is a 1/2 sheet cake and then 2 bread loaf cakes. I stacked the 2 bread pans at an … Read more
My son decided he wanted a pirate theme so I knew right away that I wanted to have a homemade Pirate Birthday Cake with a pirate ship and island. I looked online and bought some pirate figurines from Amazon.com . They also had a cave with a treasure chest and palm tree so I also … Read more
This Homemade Pirate Ship Birthday Cake I made for my son’s 3rd birthday. I first cut the cake into 5 pieces, then I arranged them to create a ‘ship’ shape. I then frosted the cake all over and in between the slices. For the frosting butter cream I used a drop of milk icing and … Read more