My awesome mom-in-law celebrated her birthday two weeks ago ... and we finally got around to celebrating this weekend! She and my dad-in-law love to go camping and kayaking. Thus, they own probably 8 kayaks! The family joke is that she is going to get her pirate ship next! It was definitely appropriate then to make her birthday cake a pirate ship! This cake was extremely intimidating to make -- but ended up being so much fun! I used a Nordic Ware pirate ship cake pan for the shape. I then made individual pieces of "wood" out of Duff chocolate fondant, made two masts, an anchor, a plank, and some waves out of buttercream frosting. It was a very fun cake and I am so glad it tasted good too! That's always the final test!
Here are two photos of the final product:
And the ship on fire..... :)
Ship wreck! :)
I am constantly learning new tricks to make this process easier and better. This week I learned... any sort of decoration that does not get affixed to the cake per se needs to be made well in advance and/or refrigerated for it to harden. (For instance, in this case the "plank" was not dry enough so it started to droop... thank goodness we snapped a photo before that happened!)
Anyways, this was a fun project!! :) Happy (belated) birthday to a wonderful mom!
Love,
Aly
wow aly this is awesome. you have so much tallent! these cakes are awesome. i love them all. what do i need to do to taste some yummy cakes of yours?
ReplyDelete~Amber Bondi