Pirate Ship Cake

Pirate Ship Cake Ingredients:

2 baked 9″ or 10″ round cakes
3 to 4 cups 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 washed thoroughly

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, but what about the rest of the party?

Before celebrating my kid’s last birthday I used a video tutorial who teaches Balloon Twisting .

I’ve seen people do that before and I got the impression that it’s not too complicated, but I never realized how easy it really is.
After a few minutes of watching the videos you start twisting balloons to shape as Dog, Mouse, Giraffe, Six Petal Flower, Teddy Bear with Heart and much much more!

Needless to say that it was the talk of the party, it almost stole the attention from my Pirate Ship Cake

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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