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 
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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September 13th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I’m confused about how you achieved the boat shape using two round cakes. Can anyone help explain the process of cutting and stacking the cakes?
September 14th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Hi Stephanie
Thank you for your question, good to know someone is actually reading my posts
As for the answer - it’s quite easy
You cut each round cake into half so you end up with four “half round” cakes.
When you place them with the straight side up (the diameter)you get the shape of a boat.
As you don’t want it to be a dancing pirate cake, trim the base so it gets less round and can sit on a solid base.
October 5th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Jack…
Good job on this post…
October 5th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Thank you for this brilliant idea! My 4 year old son has a birthday in a week and we are having a pirate themed party. Last night he said all he wants for his birthday is a pirate ship cake! This looks pretty easy and I will give it a go.
Ann-Marie
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:12 pm
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October 29th, 2007 at 2:24 am
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October 31st, 2007 at 1:41 am
My son has a 4th birthday party on Saturday and all he wants is a Pirate ship birthday cake - I have been loking at the net for the last hour and came across this - thanks so much !! will give it a try
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November 20th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I made this cake for my daughter’s birthday. Easy! I ended up using “Fruit Roll-ups” cut to the shape of sails, on bamboo skewers and it looked great. Also, I sat the boat on a glass plate, that I sprayed with blue food colouring, then covered the plate and the bottem of the ship’s base with crystal blue sprinkles. I added gummy octopus, sharks and fish to the “water”. Fun!!
December 6th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Hi thanks for the great tips im just about to start to put together the pirate ship.Im a bit worried but everyone seems to say it worked great.Im going to put the ship on broken up blue jelly for the water.hope it turns out great.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
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December 14th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
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March 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I made this cake for my daughters 5th birthday. It was cute, but I forgot to fasten the cakes together with straws or skewers and my boat separated. I was glad I took pictures of it before it fell apart! we went and ate lunch and came back to a ship that had been bombarded. At least that’s what I told my daughter! other than that, it looked pretty awesome.
March 13th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Thanks for creating this blog. I thought it was a very interesting read. It is so interesting reading other peoples personal take on a subject, I keep thinking of opening my own blog but it seems to be too demanding
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May 15th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I made a cake sort of like that ,but I used fodant for thr decorative parts.I wish I knew how to put the picture on the computer.I have it in my picture gallery but I don’t know how to put it on a web page to show the cakes I’ve done.
July 24th, 2008 at 6:04 am
first look and i m in love with this cake… thanks for sharing the recipe…
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:17 am
This is a great idea. I have my daughters 4th birthday in 4 days. I am using this shape the 4 halves but hope they don’t fall apart lol
fantastic idea. I am using gum paste for the pirates and the marsts.
I will be making gum paste sharks and placing the cake on a round plate with blue icing on the plate around the ship with the sharks on the “Water” can’t wait to show…ill put pictures up when finished. Thank you for the idea. Great job.
Teneil
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 ?
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.
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
January 1st, 2009 at 6:33 am
2 hard my luv…
January 29th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
http://www.thecookduke.com - great domain name for blog like this)))
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?
August 9th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Amazing cake. I can’t wait to do it for my 3 year old son!
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September 7th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Hi, Amazing! Not clear for me, how offen you updating your thecookduke.com.
Nadine
September 9th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Hi Nadine
Thecookduke is my hobby, unfortunately I don’t get to update it as much as I’s like.
I hope you had a great success with my pirate ship cake, if you are looking for something you can’t find on the site (you have a search box on the upper right corner) please send me your question to theduke@thecookduke.com and I’ll try to assist.
Happy Cooking
October 7th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Waw. Glad to hear so nice comments, going to try this pirate ship cake recipe now..
October 13th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Thx u a lot! This pirate ship cake rocks!
October 15th, 2009 at 3:49 am
Loved the pirate ship cake recipe, will let you know how easy it is to follow
October 15th, 2009 at 6:26 am
Hi
Made this pirate ship cake for my son’d birthday and it was a great success.
Where can i send the pictures to
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I made this pirate ship cake to my son b-day and it was great!
I’ll send you pictures of my pirate ship cake soon, thanks
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:31 am
Great work cookduke, nice pirate ship cake
October 28th, 2009 at 5:53 am
I was looking for a birthday cakes ideas and found this site.
I’m going to try your pirate ship cake, hope it’s as easy as it looks
October 28th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
This pirate ship cake recipe really helped me. Thx u a lot.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Love the pirate ship cake idea, I will recommend to friends and acquaintances
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Hi. I wanted to let you know that I used your pirate cake idea twice alrady and it was a huge hit. I put the link to a picture of it here. I did do some variations, but it was your idea and I loved it. Thanks! Christie from Baltimore