Cool Homemade Pirate Skull Cake

Pirates of the Caribbean

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!

Coolest Pirate Hat Birthday Cake

Pirate Hat Cake

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

Coolest Pirate Flag Cake

Homemade Pirate Flag Cake

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

Coolest Homemade Pirate Party Cakes and How-To Tips 1

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

Coolest Pirate Birthday Cake

Homemade Pirate Birthday Cake

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

Coolest Homemade Pirate Party Cakes and How-To Tips 2

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

Coolest Pirate Birthday Cake

Homemade Pirate Birthday Cake

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

Coolest Homemade Pirate Party Cakes and How-To Tips 3

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

Coolest Pirate Birthday Cake

Homemade Pirate Birthday Cake

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

Coolest Pirate Cupcakes

Homemade Pirate Cupcakes

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

Coolest Homemade Pirate Party Cakes and How-To Tips 5

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