3rd
September
2007
Birthday Cake Ideas - Pirate Ship Cake
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Pirate Ship Cake
Pirate Ship Cake Ingredients:
2 baked 9″ or 10″ round cakes
3 to 4 cups of chocolate icing
Pirate Ship Cake Decorations:
- Chocolate wafer sticks
- Milk chocolate wafer rolls
- A few pieces of white or off-white paper
- 3 10″ wooden skewers
- Malted milk balls
- Rolo candies
- Root Beer Barrels
- Plastic Pirate figures
How to make the Pirate Ship Cake
- Cut the cakes in half and layer them, rounded sides all facing the same direction, adding a thin coat of chocolate icing between the layers
- Trim the bottom curves of the cakes slightly to help them sit flat, then turn the cakes upright, as shown. (Tip: If necessary, wrap the cakes in plastic and chill in the freezer to make them firmer. Also, two drinking straws stuck through the four layers of cake will help keep them together)
- Cover with the chocolate icing, then create planking lines along the hull with a butter knife. Chill at least one hour to firm the icing
- Use dabs of icing to anchor wafer stick gunwales along the edge of the deck
- Press the wafer rolls into both sides of the ship for cannons
- Cut sails from the paper, then slip them onto the skewers and set the masts in place
- Add malted milk ball cannonballs, plenty of Rolo gold booty, and root beer barrels, then station a few pirates to keep watch
- For safety, place the candles in the cookie cannons, far from the paper sails. In addition, make sure that the surface on which the cake rests is impervious to wax, as the burning candles will drip
Your Pirate Ship Cake will surely be a success as it’s both tasty and looking good!

If you want to take your pirate ship cake to the next level, you can decorate it using fondant, following my fondant recipe on my post called “How to make fondant“. Fondant decorated pirate ship cake can look like this:
You’re welcome to see the Pirate Ship Cake made by Caroline, one of my readers that followed my recipe at: http://thecookduke.com/pirate-ship-cake2/
Happy Cooking
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February 26th, 2010 at 5:03 am
Oh I love this as a pirate ship cake idea! Might use it!
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:17 pm
The fondant pirate cake looks amazing! One of our customers wanted one of these and I love your idea for the ships sails. Very cool!
December 7th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Hi Yael
The pirate ship cake recipe is the same fore the fondant iced pirate ship cake, if you want to see how east it is to make fondant, please check my fondant recipe at http://thecookduke.com/fondant-recipe
Happy Cooking
December 5th, 2009 at 2:04 am
hi
i would like to know is the fondant pirate ship is the same recipe? just the decoration is different?
can you send me some details how you did the chocolate is it fondant too?
thx
November 15th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Hi Christie from Baltimore
I’m so happy to see that you was inspired by my pirate ship cake idea.
I had a problem following the link you sent, can you please send me the picture as a reply to this mail so I can post it in my site?
Happy Cooking
November 5th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Hi
I saw all comments here so I just had to give it a try and good thing I did. thie pirate ship cake recipe made my son’s party a success. 10x