Pirate ship cakes

Today is my son’s 8th birthday. He asked me to make him a birthday cake and gave me 3 conditions to fulfill. I have to make him a pirate ship cake. The cake has to be chocolate. All his classmates must go “Wow!

So my darling youngest charge, little C, had her 4th birthday last week. As you can probably guess from the picture, she is more than a little obsessed with pirates. After much teasing about her having a princess party, I finally caved and made her much requested pirate ship cake! I must admit, it turned out a lot better than I had hoped. I'm rather proud of this one! It's got a plank! This cake was actually remarkably straightforward to make. It started off its life as a simple tray bake of…

My version of a pirate ship carved out of Madeira cake, this sits on a 16" board and had edible sails made of wafer paper

A pirate ship cake made for twin boys 5th birthday. All the details hand painted, the sails are rice paper… So proud of myself for being brave with my airbrush, that thing scares me!!! You can view more of my cakes here: https://www.facebook.com/sweet

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Pirate Ship Birthday Cake Vanilla pirate ship covered in chocolate buttercream. Made from 3- 6 inch layers. Two layers torted and placed...

My kindergartener loves pirates, so we concocted a pirate cake for his birthday party. I love the process of turning a child’s wish into reality. The ship was three-tiered, complete with poop deck, bowsprit, topsails, gun ports and a chocolate wafer plank. All told, it took eight hours to make. Then we plunged a knife […]

I made this cake for Slade’s 1st birthday and his Mum didn’t want anything too scary so no skull and cross bones on this cake. It was fun to make the cake and like many of my cakes I di…