Take a look at these cool homemade Pirates/Skulls cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
I made this Pirate Birthday Cake for one of my daycare kids. She picked out the design from looking at cakes on the internet. She was having a pink pirate party. I made one large and one small round and stacked them. The stripes were made with fruit by the foot.
I made this Pirate Birthday Cake for a customer. She said the theme was Pirates and left the rest up to me. The cake is Half Chocolate cake and half white cake. I used a box cake mix and added a few secret ingredients to make it taste almost homemade. I just used a butter … 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 Pirates cake for a friend. It was just a chocolate cake with milk chocolate icing and I drew the movie logo. I think it turned out pretty well!
First I prepared the cake as directed on the box. Then I poured the batter into a round, 9-inch cake pan and followed the baking directions on the box. After baking, I let the cake cool for 15 minutes and then flipped it onto a cake board. I then took a knife and cut off … Read more
I made this pirate flag cake for my nephew’s 4th birthday party this past spring. He was really into pirates at the time and this matched the party decorations perfectly. I used a 13 x 9 pan to bake the cake and then cut it into the shape of a flag. I used icing color … Read more
I made strips out of fondant for the sides of the cake. The strips were dark and light blue. I cut out a red circle out of fondant for the top of the cakes. I then drew out the skull and crossbones out of white fondant. I made a bandana out of dark blue fondant … Read more
This Pirate Birthday Cake I made for my son’s 1st birthday. The cake is a caramel mud scratch mix. I iced it with fondant icing, the flesh colour I coloured using paste, the red and black I bought pre-coloured. It’s much easier to buy these than to mix them. The cake was a great hit, … Read more
I hope that you find these two cakes helpful when you make your own cakes. I browsed the internet to get ideas then finished up with these two cakes for our pirate party. The pirate face is very simple, just a round cake and use your imagination to decorate. As for the pirate ship, you … Read more
I layered two ten inch round cakes for the bottom tier and two six inch round cakes for the top of this Pirate Birthday Cake. I covered the two tiers with white fondant and then made red and brown fondant for the balls around the top and bottom tiers and cut out strips and laid … Read more
This pirate party cake was for my Son Sams 4th birthday. We had the party at a park that the playground area was a pirate ship so we thought we would make it a pirate themed party. The cake was Duncan Hines (is there any other?) yellow cake and was baked in a Wilton stand … Read more