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 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
I used two round cakes and cut one in half for body and the other half I cut the hat out of it for this Pirate Birthday Cake. For the second round cake I only cut a small bit off top and used some of it for ears and nose. I used a peppermint patty … Read more
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First I baked the Pirate Cupcakes and let them cool, then did a crumb coat of thin icing. I iced them properly with chocolate frosting (store bought). I rolled out some white fondant and cut the circles with a cookie cutter. I placed a white “face” onto each cupcake and smoothed it in place next … Read more
This pirate cake was extremely easy and turned out SO cute! I modified this pirate cake from a “Golf Course” cake idea to fit my sons Pirate obsession for his 4th birthday party. One package (2-layer size) yellow or white cake mix, one cup of boiling water, one package (4-serving size) green or blue Jello, … Read more
I baked the cake and let it cool, then did a thin crumbcoat. I actually left it in the fridge overnight at this point because I did the cupcakes that night (Friday night). I only decorated the Pirate Birthday Cake on Saturday night (his party was Sunday morning). Before putting it in the fridge I … Read more
This Pirate Party Birthday Cake was a really fun cake to make as I got the older kids involved in making the items in the water such as the Croc. They had great time doing this. This was made for my sons 4th Pirate Birthday Party. The chest is made of chocolate and the cupcakes … Read more
This pirate skull birthday cake was made for a little lad of one of my husband’s colleagues, he is made about pirates. I made a rectangle cake and iced it. I then cut out a skull shape and used some molded lumps of icing underneath to shape the eyes, cheeks and mouth and place the … Read more