My 3 year old son wanted nothing more than a Pirate Birthday party. Being a total and complete cake baking novice, I was terrified. As tradition dictated, I immediately launched myself onto the coolest-birthday-cakes website in hope of inspiration and assurance. Success. I found several amazing cakes (and amazing behind-the-scene mom’s) and finally decided that … Read more
I used a basic chocolate cake recipe from The Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook, with the Vanilla Buttercream and Rich Chocolate Buttercream icing for this pirate ship cake. I did 1 1/2 the amount called for in the cake recipe to make a 9×13 sheet cake as well as one 8 inch round cake. For the … Read more
We made this cake using multiple 9 inch round pans and stacking them at varying heights to make the ship. We froze each piece to make them sturdier to work with when we started to frost. We used the darkest Duncan Hines icing we could find for the main cake color. We also used dowell … Read more
I got the idea off this website and using other cakes fashioned my own! This is the first time I have ever baked a cake – only made basic fairy cakes before this. It was really easy and while not perfect, my little boy loves it and I enjoyed making this 4th Birthday Pirate Ship … Read more
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