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Pirate Ship Birthday Cake

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I made this Pirate ship birthday cake for my youngest’s 3rd birthday. 

I took two 9″ round devil’s food cakes…

… and cut them into equal halves.One of them I sliced off the top to make it flat…

…and sandwiched the layers together with buttercream frosting (you’ll need 3 x the quantity given in the devil’s food cake recipe for the whole ship). Keep the thinner layers in the centre. The rounded layers on the outside give a more rounded ship shape.

I then sliced the top off all 4 layers of cake to make a smooth base for the hull of the ship.

I rolled out half a package of ready-to-roll white icing and painted water on it using a paintbrush and green and blue food colouring.

I positioned the ship so that there would be room to pipe a message on the water and frosted the ship using an edging nib (I’m unsure of the correct term for the one with the straightish bottom and curved ridged upper edge – it’s the nib you use to pipe fancy edges on cakes). I left a little space between each ‘row’ to give the illusion of wooden planks. Rollos were used for portholes/ cannonholes and Quality Street Matchsticks were made into a ‘fence’ around the edge of the ship. I used thin dowel rods and black sugar paper for the sails and glued a skull and crossbones to the front (use Google images to locate one you like).
Tip: freeze the cake for an hour before you start decorating it – this helps keep crumbs from falling off and ruining your icing.
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  1. Laura says

    Oh how clever! This is the sort of thing one of my nephews would love. Come to think of it, it’s the sort of thing I’d love being a massive PotC fan and an even bigger chocolate fan =)

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