This Homemade Treasure Chest Cake was made for my boyfriend’s 18th birthday. It’s my first big cake ever. It’s an apple cake filled with white chocolate and cinnamon ganache to make the layers stick together. Four layers of cakes wrapped in sugar paste and decorated with painted sugar paste elements (skull, octopus, swords, handles to … Read more
The cake is very simple to make. It is made of two 9×13 cakes frosted. Candy is placed on top to look like treasure spilling out. The top is made from a sheet of cardboard covered with foil (for the shiny inside) then a piece of brown construction paper on top. It is propped open … Read more
Starting with three rectangle cakes the same size, spread jam and cream on one layer then sitting a second cake on top, ice them with icing of your choice – I used fluffy frosting. Gently place the third cake on top of the iced base cakes and prop it up with musk sticks. Then ice … Read more
I made this treasure chest cake for my school library’s cake decorating contest. I forget how I made the bottom but (I made this two years ago, I can tell you that to make the lid I used two 9′ round cake pans and I cut them in half. I then frosted them together with … Read more
I made this Treasure Chest Cake for my son’s 7th birthday. He rally wanted to have a pirate birthday party so I made 2 13×9 chocolate cakes and added chocolate butter icing between the layers of the cake and frosted the top and the sides of the cake. For the lid I used foil covered … Read more
My son Devin just turned three and wanted a treasure hunt for his birthday party. I was thrilled with all the creative possibilities and went immediately to work to make this a memorable occasion. I’m fortunate to have a very creative mother-in-law who’s an amateur custom cake baker. For our Treasure Chest Birthday Cake, she … Read more
I made this Homemade Treasure Chest Cookie Cake for my son’s third birthday. He has a severe egg allergy and therefore cannot eat your everyday birthday cake. He can however eat cookies. The treasure chest is made of chocolate sugar cookies. Then fused together with royal icing. Fondant and butter cream icing were used to … Read more
I made the chest using 3 butter cakes cooked in a rectangle pan. I chose the one with the best rise to use as the lid. I first cut the top off each cake and trimmed each to the size that I wanted. I them joined together with a simple butter cream icing. Two on … Read more
It was frosted with Dark chocolate frosting and then I ran a fork over it to give it the wood grain texture. The Gold foil covered coins and candy were stacked close to the front so that the “lid” would rest on top slightly open. To make the lid the last cake half was put … Read more
This was really easy to make and another huge hit with the birthday boy and the party guests.
I made this treasure chest cake for my son’s 3rd birthday party (pirate themed, of course). I had a lot of inspiration from this website. The key to this cake is making it look like it is half open. In order to do this, I had to figure out a way to make the lid … Read more
I made this treasure chest cake from 2 chocolate cakes baked in a loaf tin. Two thirds of the mixture for the base and 1/3 for the lid. The rise in the cake keeps the lid open and it’s secured by toothpicks at the back. I decorated it with chocolate icing and chocolate coins and … Read more