The cake was made with 7″ x 11″ pans (it was 3 cakes stacked on top of each other). The back of the cake was a piece of cardboard which I decorated with icing. To get the cardboard to stick to the cake, I had to stick long wooden skewers through the cardboard and into … Read more
Both the Cakes were covered in chocolate buttercream and then I used fondant to cover. Chocolate Fondant was used for the Chest and normal white fondant that I colored for the pirate. Trying to get the lid of the Treasure chest to sit open was a challenge but I used chopsticks to hold it up … Read more
I made a treasure chest cake for my nephew’s 6th birthday. I used a square pan and cut it in half. Put one piece on top of the other. It was made from chocolate cake filled with chocolate fudge frosting. I covered it in fondant and painted it with food coloring to give it the … Read more
This was a pirate treasure chest cake for my son’s 4th birthday. It was fairly simple to make, but a little time consuming to decorate (but end result was worth it). I used 5 cake mixes to bake 4 9×13 cakes and two loaf cakes (in chocolate). I placed two leveled 9×13 cakes next to … Read more
I made this small Treasure Chest Birthday Cake for my friend from work. I had made a larger one for my husband a couple of weeks before and she loved it. His was made with 3 13×9 sheet cakes so it was a lot bigger. All I did for this one was bake a 9×9 … Read more
This open faced treasure chest cake was chosen by my friend’s two boys. They were having a pirate party. To make this cake I used a traditional Chocolate Cake and a vanilla buttercream frosting. First I made three 9×4 inch rectangle cakes, and two 10×6 jelly roll pan. Then froze all cakes overnight. To make … Read more
Our cake was for a Pirates party. We got the treasure box cake idea from a magazine but I wanted to do a cake that is easy to prepare. The treasure box cake is made from a regular cake mix (we took vanilla). I used a pound cake baking pan and baked it for 45 … Read more
Take candy strips or fruit by the foot to make the straps on the chest on each side. Put small candies along the straps to appear as nails. Then carefully fill with an assortment of candy: gold coins, rock candy, candy necklaces, and/or bracelets. Whatever you want to fill your cake with. Enjoy! This really … Read more
I made this treasure chest cake for my 6 year old twins birthday Party. I made three separate cakes in a 9’11 cake pan. I froze the cakes till they were hard. I took 2 frozen cakes and placed one on a cake board. I used Playdoo like white frosting between the two cakes and … Read more
I made this pirate treasure chest birthday cake for my little girl’s first birthday – having read lots of posts about using doweling to prop the lid open or making the lid out of rice krispies or wedging it open with extra bits of cake I was starting to panic that it was all very … Read more
This was a Treasure Chest Birthday Cake I made for my child’s 3rd pirate birthday with ideas I found off the net. It was cooked in a 13×9 pan. I cut a 2in wide section off and then evenly cut the cake in half to make the top and bottom. The 2in wide section was … Read more
I made this Homemade Treasure Chest Birthday Cake for my grandmother’s 80th birthday party (Pirate theme: Arg Matey! Faye is Eighty!). I made 3 (or 4?) 9×12 cakes from marble cake mix (2 boxes) and froze them until it was time to assemble. The freezing helped with carving the barrel shape of the lid. I … Read more