Ahoy! Pirate Ship cake.

Ahoy! Pirate Ship cake.

by Georganne

(Fountain, Colorado)

Pirate Ship Cake

Pirate Ship Cake

I used 3 boxes of cake mix. I baked each of them in a 9 x 13 inch pan. I drew the basic shape of a ship on a piece of paper, put it on the cooled cakes, and cut the shape out of each of them. I filled the cakes with chocolate butter cream frosting and stacked them. After they were stacked, I cut down at an angle so that the bottom of the cake was narrower than the top. I added pieces from the leftover cake on top to increase the height of the deck.

I used chocolate marshmallow fondant to decorate the cake. I rolled it out and then cut planks out of it. I used a sucker stick to make nail holes and lightly pressed with a pizza cutter to make the wood grain. Starting at the bottom, I pieced the wood planks together to cover the ship’s hull and deck. The upper part of the hull was covered in one piece of fondant that was rolled lightly with the pizza cutter to make it look like thinner planks of wood.Then I painted it with gold luster dust to make it look old. For each cannon, I rolled to balls of fondant. One I flattened, and the other I made flat on two sides. I put them together with a tiny bit of water and then attached them to the side of the cake. The windows in the back were cut out of fondant and painted with silver luster dust to make them look shiny.

For the deck, I rolled tootsie roll shaped logs out of the fondant and placed them along the edges of the deck. Then I cut a thin rope out of the fondant and carefully placed it across them. The sails are made of paper. I brushed them with vegetable oil, and put them in a 200 degree oven for 5 minutes. (BE VERY VERY CAREFUL THAT YOU DO NOT LEAVE THEM. THEY WILL CATCH FIRE QUICKLY!!!!) I threaded the sails on dowels that I had painted with brown food coloring.

I placed the entire cake on a cardboard cake round that I had spread blue royal icing on to look like waves.

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So great!

by: Jennifer


Thank you so much for sharing this-I am really inspired by your cake and keep thinking about how I’m going to try to make this for my son’s first birthday party. How did you get the shaped of the sides of the ship on the deck so perfect? Did you just hand carve them off the cake?


Awesome!

by: funkreativekakes


This cake is awesome! My son is having a pirate 6th bday and I’ve been searching the web for a great ship to model after..I wanted to make the sails out of paper and these are so great. Gratetful to have found your picture.


Pirate Ship Cake with Cannons and Photo Flag

by: Nancy


AMAZING idea for my grandson’s birthday cake.
I followed your wonderful instructions, but added a few extra touches such as:

1) Placing Pirate of the Caribbean LEGO pirates on the ship.

2) Personalizing the largest flag on the ship by printing a black and white photo of my grandson in his pirate hat from last year’s Disney World trip. A smaller flag was the traditional skull and crossbone. The smallest flag at the top was a number 7. I made BLACK flags from scrapbook paper. I made my photos Black and White instead of color…but copied them on copier paper so they would not appear glossy. I carefully cut them out and glued them on three flags (leaving several other flags plain!)

3) Making the portholes on the sides look like cannons by placing black candles in them sideways. When they were lit, they actually looked like cannons were fired!

THANK YOU SO-O-O much for the wonderful idea and instructions. He was thrilled!


Terrific

by: Anonymous


What an awesome cake. Thanks for the instructions. Where do you get marshmallow fondant? THanks


Great Stuff!

by: icedartstyle


Thank you for all the inspirations!


Great cake

by: Bevals


I love this cake. Thank you so much for sharing.


Awesome – thanks for sharing!

by: Houston


This is undoubtably the best pirate cake I’ve ever seen (we don’t count Iron Chef, etc.) You did an awesome job of making it look realistic and taking time for the small details. I’m making one this weekend and hope mine looks half as good as yours.


how?

by: Anonymous


Did you buy a stencil?


Sword artwork

by: Louisiana Mom


Where did you find the artwork on the sail? I’ve tried to find these crossed swords without a skull and haven’t seen anything like it. Great cake!


WHAT A WINNER

by: ARIZONA


FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SELFLESS ACT OF SHARING ALL YOUR SECRETS ON MAKING THIS AMAZING CAKE. MY NEPHEW CHOSE THIS FOR IS GROOM’S CAKE. I HAD SO MUCH FUN IN MAKING IT AND GOT MANY COMPLIMENTS ON IT. I PRINTED A FAMILY CREST OF SORTS AN THAT MEANT SO MUCH TO HIM. THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME WORKING WITH FONDANT AND IT REMINDED OF MY DAYS OF WORKING WITH CLAY…SO MUCH FUN AND YOUR INSTRUCTIONS WERE GREAT…THANKS


Inspiring

by: Anonymous


Amazing Pirate ship, I love how you aged it with the sails etc. I will certainly be giving it a go 🙂 Thanks for the inspiration


Great detail and shape

by: Anonymous


Wow – looks professional!


Awesome Pirate Ship Cake!!

by: Marnie


This cake is unbelievable- I’m just not sure if I could re-create it.

You have done an awesome job, any kid would be blown away to have this cake at their Pirate Birthday Party!


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