Birthday Cake Ideas - Pirate Ship Cake
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
As the pump and balloons are cheap as chips, I recommend to take that video tutorial and to twist balloons as a main part of the party.
Happy Cooking
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March 30th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site a recipe for a pirate ship cake. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
January 29th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
http://www.thecookduke.com - great domain name for blog like this)))
January 1st, 2009 at 6:33 am
2 hard my luv…
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Hi Caroline
I’m so happy you loved the pirate ship cake idea.
I can’t agree more with what you said about the importance of comments - it gives more creative ideas and as the author of this blog, it gives a great satisfaction to see that people took the time to comment.
I promise to come up with a cake idea you’d love towards your son’s birthday next year
December 8th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Awesome idea! I just had my son’s party yesterday and he loved the cake. It looked great - I almost didn’t want to cut into it! haha Great directions & easy to put together. Thanks to other commenters - got a few more ideas from you.
November 11th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Hi Teneil
I’m sure your pirate ship cake is going to be a HUGE success!
Looking forward to receive the picture of your pirate ship cake and present it on my site.
Happy Cooking ?