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 Cake.
I made the cake using a Delia Smith basic cake recipe. Icing is buttercream icing. Originally I had used 4 silver candles down the side of the ship as cannons but they keep falling so changed them to choc button portholes and bought a numerical 4 candle. Pirates were 40p from the party shop.
I made 2 cakes in a loaf tin and then used an electric carving knife to cut them flat so they sit one on top of the other with buttercream icing in between. I straighten the bits and placed them on top of each other and pinned them in place with cocktail sticks cut level to hide. I cut the corners of the ship and used one corner on the front of the boat. I put the cake in the freezer for a little while and then iced.
I decorated using smarties and buttons and then made some sand coloured buttercream icing using very little cocoa powder. I then covered this in brown sugar to make sand and placed some choc coins and silver balls as treasure.
I used blue food colouring for my water icing and piped it on to make it nice an neat. The mast is a plastic chopstick and I printed an internet pic on some white card.
Looking forward to the party tomorrow!
I’m so glad I noticed your cake. I’m making a pirate cake for my nephew’s 7th birthday next week and I found a cake a bit similar to yours from the Australian woman’s weekly, so was taking my ideas from that. I was going to try putting candles out the side for canons but I wont try that now, thanks for your advice :)
I hope mine looks half as good as yours!