Everyone will be screaming "Shiver me
timbers!" when they see this swashbuckling cake.
INSTRUCTIONS: Click
the links for the products (items not linked can be found locally and are
not listed for sale at http://www.sugarcraft.com):
• 2 baked 9"
or 10" round cakes
• 3 to 4 cups chocolate icing
(or add Hershey's powdered cocoa to white buttercream for fast chocolate
fudge icing - about 2/3 cup to 1 recipe)
Decorations:
• Chocolate wafer sticks (such as
Pepperidge Farm Pirouette Cookies)
• Milk chocolate wafer rolls (Waffeletten
cookies)
• Several pieces of white or off-white
paper Or try EDIBLE
wafer paper sprayed yellow, thin layer of piping gel, let dry, cut
out.
• 3 10" wooden skewers
• Malted milk balls
• Rolo candies
• Root beer barrels
• Plastic
pirate figures
Step
1:
Step
2:
Trim the bottom curves of the cakes
slightly to help them sit flat, then turn the cakes upright, as shown.
(Tip: If necessary, wrap the cakes in plastic and chill in the freezer
to make them firmer. Also, two drinking straws stuck through the four layers
of cake will help keep them together.)
Step 3:
Cover with the chocolate icing, then
create planking lines along the hull with a butter knife. Chill at least
one hour to firm the icing.
Step 4:
Use dabs of icing to anchor wafer stick
gunwales along the edge of the deck.
Step 5:
Press the wafer rolls into both sides
of the ship for cannons.
Step 6:
Cut sails from the paper, then slip
them onto the skewers and set the masts in place.
Step 7:
Add malted milk ball cannonballs, plenty
of Rolo gold booty, and root beer barrels, then station a few pirates to
keep watch.
Step 8:
For safety, place the candles in the
cookie cannons, far from the paper sails. Also, make sure that the surface
on which the cake rests is impervious to wax, as the burning candles will
drip.
PARTY IDEA!
Your swashbucklers will have loads
of fun at a Pirate Party (go to familyfun.com for party inst.)!