I saw your pirate cake design online and loved it! To make it more stable I placed the boat on-top of a small sheet cake to help hold everything together. I also added some pirate candles that I purchased from a dollar store. The railings and flag, I found in my kids toys (washed well … Read more
The Pirate Birthday Cake Design was for my son’s 10th birthday. We went to the store together and picked a box flavor cake, he selected a “main” icing flavor and then a few small tubes of colored icing to create an ocean and an island. We then went through toys and selected smaller pirate themed … Read more
This Pirate Ship Cake was baked for a friend’s going away Pirate themed party! After lots of planning it all came together nicely. The ship is made of 4 rectangle cakes layered on top of each other and then sculpted into the ship. I made a ‘pattern’ on paper first to make sure it all … Read more
My daughter was turning three and wanted a pirate party! So I designed and made this treasure island cake. I baked two bases; a large rectangular one in a roasting tray and a round ‘island’ in a Pyrex bowl. The cake was assembled by covering the rectangle in blue fondant icing (spread cake with apricot … Read more
Recipe for Pirate ship cake: 2 baked 9″ or 10″ round cakes 3 to 4 cups chocolate icing Decorations: Chocolate wafer sticks (such as Pepperidge Farm Pirouette Cookies), Milk chocolate wafer rolls (Waffeletten cookies), Several pieces of white or off-white paper, 3 10″ wooden skewers, Malted milk balls, Rolo candies, Root beer barrels, Plastic pirate … Read more
I saw all of the examples for pirate cakes on this website and followed their directions – it really was simple. I took two 8″ round chocolate cakes, cut them in half and trimmed the bottom to be flat so it would stand. I used the left over cake (from trimming) to build up the … 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
I made this Pirate birthday cake for a friends child. This is simply a chocolate cake stacked in layers to look like a boat. There’s one main base piece and then two layers at the back to make 3 levels of decking. I put a double layer of cake at the front of the ship … Read more
I used three 13×9 sheet cakes for my pirate ship cake. I layered 2 with frosting then cut the one end of both in a milk carton shape. I used the cut pieces as a pattern to cut the third cake. The third cake was then cut into three pieces with the triangle used on … Read more
I used a 9″ x 13″ cake and one 8 round cake for my pirate ship cakes. I cut the 9′ x 13′ in half lengthwise and one of the halves in half again so you end up with three pieces. I placed the two smaller pieces on top of the larger one to form … Read more