I made this Pirate ship cake for a friend. She was having a pirate-themed party for her uncle and her son. Using a cake mix and ready-to-spread frosting, I baked two round cake layers.
After cooling them, I cut them in half, but notched out a piece to create the upper deck behind the sail. Then I frosted all four half-layers together and frosted the outside of the whole thing. The gunwales and cannons are Pirouline cookies.
The barrels are each two Rolo candies glued together with a little frosting. The cannon balls are Cocoa Puffs. There is a ship’s captain made of a Grahamy Bear decorated with a little frosting steering the boat, but you can barely see him. I made the sail out of an apricot fruit roll and used a craft knife to cut the skull and cross-bones design from a green apple fruit roll. I used the cheaper brand which is usually stocked in the produce section because it comes in bigger pieces.
There were two tricky parts of making this cake. First, the upper deck of the cake started to break away while I was decorating it. I think this happened because it was a hot day and the cake became soft so it couldn’t support the weight of the frosting. Secondly, the dried fruit rolls were a little hard to work with. It kept sticking to itself, so I dusted it with a little corn starch while I was working on it. Then when I was ready to hang it on the bamboo skewers, it kept tearing. I had to use little strips to reinforce where it tore.
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