Where to buy a pirate cake?

kissmekate_2

Hi

Need some help. Im no great cook!!! so I need to buy a pirate themed cake (preferably off the shelf rather than specially made) Has anyone seen one. Ive tried Tescos, Sains and M&S. They dont even seem to have even a Pirates of the Carribean one. Help....

Thanks (from me and my 3 yr old son)
Kissmekate xxx

morganb

Hiya
Waitrose do a pirate ship, you have to give seven days notice, and I think it's about £30.
Have you thought about making a raft? Could just be a traybake chocolate cake with chocolate butter icing and flakes on the top to look like wood. You could then decorate it with pirates, flags, etc.
I got someone to make an amazing cake for me last year, a pirate ship, but hard braking caused the sides to break and the flag to topple over ... farewell to my £30. This year I'm going for the raft option. I was a bit worried about feeding young children blue icing so I'm going to put my raft on a big plank of wood, covered with tin foil, and then I'll decorate the tin foil with blue icing waves ...
I am no Nigella but I reckon this one should be fairly straightforward.

Or: how about a load of mini cupcakes decorated with gold coins?? That's what i'm putting in the party bags ... You could even make a treasure chest out of a box, and fill it with the cupcakes. That's my back up plan for if the raft goes horribly wrong. What a shame, I'll have to eat it myself if it does.

LJM

if you cant get one either buy or make a sponge and look on ebay under cake toppers am getting my daughter a dora explorer one from there

jfdi

Easiest Pirate type cake is a Treasure Chest!

I made one for DS (some years ago!) but if you could buy a biggish square/rectangular Chocolate cake, all you need to do is slice the top off & fill with brightly coloured sweets, jellies, coins etc. Overfill so they're all hanging out & it looks brill! Some of those sweet necklaces too help it hang together!

Stick the sweets on with dabs of icing or buttercream if you need to!

A
xx

floyd

This one looks super easy if you buy one of Marks or Sainsburys ready iced sponges

LJM

that looks amazing did you make it

floyd

No I didn't make it, I wish a friend of mine made one similar after copying pictures she found online

Pink_butterfly_3

This is a fantastic pirate cake that https://www.waitrose.com do!

I ordered my DD's birthday cake from Waitrose (it was a fairy princess cake) and the quality was fantastic!

http://www.waitrosedeliver.com/wdeliver/servlet/JSPs/shop/display_ind_fs.jsp?line_number=001331&prrfnbr=280860&siteCode=BI

@Cat

There's a pirate cake tin on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wilton-Little-Pirate-Cake-Tin-Cake-Decorating_W0QQitemZ180075305076QQihZ008QQcategoryZ57211QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

Also a couple of cake toppers (they're in America but shipping might not be too much)
http://cgi.ebay.com/EDIBLE-CAKE-IMAGE-PIRATES-OF-THE-CARRIBEAN-BIRTHDAY_W0QQitemZ200084625346QQihZ010QQcategoryZ46281QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Pirate-skull-edible-cake-image-birthday-party-topper_W0QQitemZ220078260328QQihZ012QQcategoryZ3207QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

hpiper

I cheated a few years ago when my son had a pirate party. I brought a plain, iced cake and stuck a toy pirate ship and pirates on it.

Some shops do photo cakes now so an alternative choice would be to get your son to dress up in a pirate costume, take a photo, and then get that put on the cake.

consumermonkey

Surely, you don't buy a pirate cake, you plunder it along with pieces of eight and other treasure "Me Hearties":rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: