I got my idea for this Pirate birthday cake, here, on this website, but since I have twins, I always make a cake for each of them, as well as one for the guests, so I decided to make them each a “treasure island” cake (this was my own idea), to go along with the … Read more
Believe it or not, here are our first pirate cakes (Ship and Island)! A joint effort. I got so carried away with making the cake I forgot to take stage by stage pictures but Ill try to explain best I can. Ships ‘planking’ made from brown colored fondant icing (when coloring the white icing I … Read more
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By exploring your theme-site I was able to create my own version of a pirate birthday cake for the party. I love creating cakes and themes for my son’s birthday. I usually take a lot of time in decorating the cakes and making them from scratch. But this year I simplified the task by simply … Read more
I made this pirate ship for my sons third birthday. I wanted to make something different to the usual pirate ship cakes so this is what I made. I baked a round sponge cake and cut it in two in the middle. I cut a bit in the center of the lower half to make … Read more
These Pirate Cupcakes are a first attempt at royal icing cupcakes for a friend’s daughters birthday party. I made 30 cupcakes. I tried my best to level them all and then added ganache. Once that had set I started working on the royal icing. It was a fair amount of work but they were a … Read more
This was my first attempt at a cake with fondant and not knowing a lot about it, I didn’t want to risk the entire pirate kids cake on just one element. I frosted the whole thing with a buttercream crumb coat and let that sit. Then I frosted the entire thing again with buttercream. I … Read more
This Pirate birthday cake is made of one box cake mix, two 8 inch circle pans and icing. This cake was soo easy to make. To make the hat I just cut the bottom of one of the circles and then cut the second piece in half again and used it for the sides. My … Read more
I made this treasure chest cake for a friend. Her son was turning one and her uncle was also having a birthday. The party was pirate-themed, and the main cake was a pirate ship. However, a one-year-old needs a cake of his own because he’s liable to get slobber on it when he blows out … Read more
I found this Treasure Chest Cake online somewhere and decided to try it for my nephews birthday. It was by far the hardest cake I’ve ever made, and I haven’t made many. I made 2 9x 13 chocolate cakes (however I used 2 cake mixes for one of them.) I used melted chocolate and “glued” … Read more
The year of the Pirate! I was challenged to create two cakes to go with the pirate theme for my boys, age 4 & 6. I used two chocolate cake box mixes (Duncan Hines I think) and baked these cakes in separate Pyrex 9×13 casserole dishes. After the cakes cooled I cut them in half … Read more
Like the train and the fire engine I posted previously, this Treasure Chest Birthday Cake Idea is another great cake for people like me who love to produce a ‘homemade’ cake but who are useless at the cake bit! This treasure chest was made from 8 Tesco standard size Madeira cakes sandwiched together with Betty … Read more