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Birthday Cake Ideas - Pirate Ship Cake

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 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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  1. 1 On September 5th, 2007, Free Grocery Gift Cards! » Blog Archive » The perfect cake for Talk Like a Pirate Day said:

    […] planning on posting about it here until I stumbled across the recipe and design instructions for a Pirate Ship Cake and realized that it was a match made in heaven. Now, I haven’t made this recipe personally, […]

    posted on September 5th, 2007 at 4:23 am

  2. 2 On September 5th, 2007, The perfect cake for Talk Like a Pirate Day | Health Foods Blog said:

    […] planning on posting about it here until I stumbled across the recipe and design instructions for a Pirate Ship Cake and realized that it was a match made in heaven. Now, I haven’t made this recipe personally, […]

    posted on September 5th, 2007 at 10:24 pm

  3. 3 On September 13th, 2007, Stephanie said:

    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?

    posted on September 13th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

  4. 4 On September 14th, 2007, TheCookDuke said:

    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.

    posted on September 14th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

  5. 5 On October 5th, 2007, Jack said:

    Jack…

    Good job on this post…

    posted on October 5th, 2007 at 2:00 am

  6. 6 On October 5th, 2007, Ann-Marie said:

    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

    posted on October 5th, 2007 at 7:12 am

  7. 7 On October 23rd, 2007, kneetlywek said:

    Excellent site with fantastic references and reading…. well done indeed…!

    posted on October 23rd, 2007 at 10:12 pm

  8. 8 On October 27th, 2007, sworieces said:

    Enjoyed the visit!

    posted on October 27th, 2007 at 11:38 am

  9. 9 On October 27th, 2007, kneetlywek said:

    Thank you! I delighted!

    posted on October 27th, 2007 at 3:42 pm

  10. 10 On October 27th, 2007, sworieces said:

    Very nicely done, Thank you!

    posted on October 27th, 2007 at 11:21 pm

  11. 11 On October 28th, 2007, kneetlywek said:

    Good stuff, very nicely done!

    posted on October 28th, 2007 at 3:42 am

  12. 12 On October 28th, 2007, quiend said:

    Good resources here, Enjoyed the visit!

    posted on October 28th, 2007 at 8:23 am

  13. 13 On October 29th, 2007, sworieces said:

    Like! Thank you!

    posted on October 29th, 2007 at 2:24 am

  14. 14 On October 30th, 2007, kneetlywek said:

    Very good contents

    posted on October 30th, 2007 at 9:17 pm

  15. 15 On October 31st, 2007, Rochelle said:

    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

    posted on October 31st, 2007 at 1:41 am

  16. 16 On November 5th, 2007, Amazing Cooking Guide said:

    Amazing Cooking Guide…

    posted on November 5th, 2007 at 7:40 am

  17. 17 On November 6th, 2007, Best Wedding Ideas said:

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    posted on November 6th, 2007 at 3:38 am

  18. 18 On November 7th, 2007, Payday said:

    Great post

    posted on November 7th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

  19. 19 On November 14th, 2007, Darren said:

    Just what I was looking for - 10X

    posted on November 14th, 2007 at 9:18 am

  20. 20 On November 20th, 2007, Vicky said:

    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!!

    posted on November 20th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

  21. 21 On December 6th, 2007, kristin said:

    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.

    posted on December 6th, 2007 at 8:15 am

  22. 22 On December 7th, 2007, Jenna said:

    i can not leave this site…

    posted on December 7th, 2007 at 11:41 pm

  23. 23 On December 12th, 2007, Baby Shower Cakes - Picture gallery of baby shower cakes to suit any party's theme said:

    […] Birthday Pirate Ship Cake […]

    posted on December 12th, 2007 at 10:04 am

  24. 24 On December 14th, 2007, John said:

    Great site and useful content!

    posted on December 14th, 2007 at 5:17 pm

  25. 25 On March 7th, 2008, Lisa said:

    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.

    posted on March 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

  26. 26 On March 13th, 2008, B-Guide said:

    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

    posted on March 13th, 2008 at 12:34 am

  27. 27 On April 19th, 2008, pirate birthday cake said:

    […] make and great looking pirate Ship cake that will sure be the centerpiece of your child’s birthdayhttp://thecookduke.com/pirate-ship-cake/Cake Brag BookPhoto of a pirate Theme birthday party cake. Fishermen birthday cake Photo of a […]

    posted on April 19th, 2008 at 1:33 am

  28. 28 On May 15th, 2008, gloria said:

    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.

    posted on May 15th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

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