Anyone made a Pirate ship cake?

[Maudy]

DS2 is having his 4th birthday party next weekend and i'm thinking of making a pirate ship cake. I've seen a few on the internet where you bake two round ones, cut them in half, sandwich them all together and then turn them on their sides to form the hull of the boat. It sounds easy but i know from experience that these things are never as easy as they first seem and i wondered if anyone had made anything similar, or had any other ideas.

[JackieNo]

Blimey - sounds ambitious! Good for you. Post a pic when it's done - I'm full of admiration for people who can do this stuff. Judicious use of matchmakers for the rigging?

[zippitippitoes]

someone made a pirate ship cake last year and there were some pics posted..trying to remember who?

[zippitippitoes]

\link{http://mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1379&threadid=87004&stamp=050707184220\ pirate cake thread}

[robin3]

There's one in a food magazine this month....basically large chocolate cake cut in to boat shape and covered in choc icing. Rolos stuck down each side as portholes and a mars bar at each end as the helm then with pirate flags, pirates and a treasure chest bought from a toy shop stuck on top...looks great. I'll look tonight to see which mag it is....came free with Homes and Gardens or something similar.

[fullmoonfiend]

Did a jolly roger cake once. Quite easy, and decorated the surround with gold coins etc.

[Gingerbear]

treasure chest is easier?

[Blu]

I made a Pirate Ship cake. Actually, I constructed it from those marble-cake loaves, stuck together with butter icing. Hull, a chunk for the fore-deck and another at the back. I covered the hull in choc fingers to look like planks.

I have also made two Treasure Island cakes. One was an island, made of brojen up sandwich cakes, with a small mountain in the middle, a cove etc, all put on a board covered in sea icing, with the island iced in green mountains, yellow beaches, a blue waterfall..all done with coloured roll-out icing.

the other was a treasure map cake - much easier. Cake covered in 'parchment' colour roll-out, with directions and features done in the writing icing. Treasure chest with foxes galier fruit jewels etc.

Also, pirate buns. fairy cakes decorated as pirate faces. White basic icing, eye patches from black roll-put cut into rounds with a pastry cutter and cut in half, hair, mouths, iced on with writing tube icing.

Selection of pirate-theme games?

Play 'what's the time captain hook?' instead of 'Mr Wolf'. Have a treasure hunt with little barrels wrapped in gold foil from the pick'n'mix - or gold coins, play musical statues, but they have to make statues of characters from Peter pan, do Pass the Parcel, to a selection of piratey sea-shanties (DP downloaded from iTunes), and as it was hot, we did walking the plank fom the garden table into the paddling pool - but that was considered downright irresponsible by some of the parents (or maybe, as it was a P pan party, it was the 4 year-olds brandishing a broom handle to smash the croc pinata from Woolies that they thought was dangerous!)

have fun!

[Maudy]

fab, thanks everyone. Going to do a practice run this weekend as i'm refusing to do another last minute trip to Tesco's.....

[Maudy]

Blu, thanks for all that info too. I wasn't palnning on doing a pirate party but it's a joint party and the other mum, who is doing the party bags, decided to do pirate theme bags. I thought i would therefore do a cake to match but as we've got a bouncy castle and a magician, i'm hoping not to have to do too many games .....if any!!

[fullmoonfiend]

that's awesome HF!

[PPH]

Maudy just in case you decide not to do a ship, you could do something easier which is a treasure chest with gold coins spilling out. THe gold coins are just the chocolate money you can get, and the trunk shape is very easy to make and cover with sugarpaste. I did this instead of a full ship for a pirate themed party, and it went down v well (mostly because they all picked off the gold coins in an excited fashion)

[bea]

Made this with a friend the other day and it was easy peasy and looked highly impressive... bet someones pasted this link already... sorry if repeating!



\link{http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/cake/cake_pirateship/\pirate cake}

[bea]

oops do't think my link is working... just follow cake finder and it's ion the birthday section!

sorry!