Heres the deal – with cool cakes its all about the decoration and being creative. Thus, the pirate cake is super bad ass. This is how you make it.
Ingredients:
Blue powder candy – pixie sticks
skewers, two or three – these become your masts
some pieces of paper for your flags
gummi fish – blue whales too
cake mix supermoist from the store
3 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 1/4 cup milk or water
4 whoppers (tiny choclate milk balls)
The masts:
For the pirate masts take small pieces of paper skewers and tape. You can decorate these however you desire. (“I desire macaroni pictures” epic lulz)
The flags are your pieces of tape, cut them in the shape that you want them stick them on the skewers, puncturing both the top and bottom if the flag. Because we wanted to look pro, andrew used guash paint and painted the flags. This made the ship look kind of creepy and was pretty sweet.
The cake:
For the cake itself mix your cake mix, eggs, milk or water, and vegetable oil and make it a smooth batter. We used the sprinkle one.
Oil the pan you are using to bake your cake. It MUST be oiled. put on a thicker layer of oil than you woudl otherwise use if you want. This is an important step. Pour in your batter.
Bake your cake according the box instructions. Set it to 350 on bake for approximately 20 – 25 minutes. Once your cake is done you should be able to slide a butter knife in and out of it without anything sticking to the blade. Also, the top will be a little brown.
The reason oiling the pan is important is shown here. Once you remove your cake from the oven and allow it to cool you will see that it is not sticking to the side of the pan. This is important because it is easier to handle the cake this way. The baked cake is like your building block. I made a very simple pirate ship foundation here, but you can get more complex by building one onto the other and using icing as the glue. (as you will see in my future FIRETRUCK CAKE) Anyways, this cake is super easy because now all you do it cut the shape of a boat out using a sharp knife.
You can see the cuts I made here.
These are the outside pieces I gently pried away.
Now, once you are confident in your abilities, you want to slowly and carefully lift your boat cake out of the pan and onto the plate you will ice it an eat it from. Dont worry if the icing gets messy and sticks to the plate, we have plans to cover this up. Because the bottom of the pan has been oiled only a little bit of the cake will stick to it. It should come away fairly clean and easy.
Now, ice your boat cake with brown icing. This is the wood of your pirate ship.
The next step is to put out your fish. It is at your discretion if you would like to place your fish on top or underneath the sugar. We opted for on top because otherwise it woudl look like all the dead fish had floated to the surface.
Put the blue powder as your water.The great part here is that any mess you made with your icing will be covered up by your fish and powdered sugar.
Place three whoppers in a triangular formation and the fourth on the top so you have a small pyramid. These are canons.
Now stick your masts in the center.
Its all about the little details……
When you light the cake, stick the candles in sideways. This gives the illusion of cannons and wont start a massive fire by burning the masts.
This cake is pretty awesomezaurs. I guarantee it will blow the recipients mind.
Happy birthday Lauren!!!!!!!
