Pirate Birthday Cake Ahoy Matey

For this pirate cake, I baked a regular sheet cake first and then used a small disposable bunt cake pan for the ship and a small round pan for the island.

I frosted the sheet cake white and used my knife to bring up some of the frosting to create waves. I then used Wilson Spray Frosting in Blue to decorate the sheet cake and make it look like an ocean.

I frosted the island white and then used crushed graham crackers for the sand. The palm trees are fake just stuck those into the cake. I used Swedish Fish just put them into the frosting on the sheet cake to look like they were jumping out of the water.

For the cake once it was cooled I cut off both ends in a diagonal and set the cake in the fridge for a while to make working on it easier. I then frosted the whole thing with chocolate frosting and frosted the two cut pieces as well. Once I set them in the fridge again and then took them out – I put a dab of frosting on the bottom of each piece and placed them on either end of the “ship”.

I used luxury Wafers to outline the ship and I used Paper cut in the shape of sails and skewers to hold them in place.

The pirate emblem I printed off the computer, cut out and taped to the sails. I decorated the ship using icing. I used pirate candles from party Harty to complete the whole themed look. As well as some pirate swords from the dollar store pack on the island.

This was for my son’s 6th birthday party – a whole pirate theme and everyone could not believe how well the cake turned out, this was my second time doing a theme cake and I really enjoyed doing it, plus to see my sons reaction was priceless

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