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DSmiffy
DSmiffy Posts: 791 Forumite
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My uncle is going to be 70 soon and used to be in the navy. I want to make him a cake in the shape of a navy frigate. Anyone know any sites that I can pinch ideas for the shape and decoration etc.
Thanks

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  • squeaky
    squeaky Posts: 14,129 Forumite
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    Hiya,

    If you google uk using "royal navy frigate"+shipname without the HMS bit you're likely to get a few pages up - one of which will hopefully have a picture of any frigate that you know your grandad was on.

    After that it's work out a design and start cooking. For that you're on your own :)
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  • KTFrugal
    KTFrugal Posts: 74 Forumite
    With a square cake tin, you can cut the resulting cake into 2 rectangles or 2 triangles, then divide those shapes into smaller triangles. From the pieces, you can jigsaw together a boat shape, which you can stick together with icing.

    You can buy black food colouring and add it to a basic icing recipe to get battleship grey.

    Write the name of his ship on the side, with gel icing pens.

    Best of British...
  • Katgoddess
    Katgoddess Posts: 1,821 Forumite
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    http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&lr=&q=ship+cake&btnG=Search

    :D
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