A Pirates Life for me.
Hi Everyone,
It’s been some time between postings but most of you know I’ve been really sick.
The pneumonia just won’t give up. I guess it had a good head start before I went to the ER.
Today, May 4th we celebrated a bday. He had one request for a gift. Jimmys request "Would his mother bake him a Pirate Ship Cake?"
Well, we looked it up on the internet, got some ideas. Bought supplies and this morning the putting together began.
No baking. We bought 2 flat pan cakes with no frosting. Kinda of large as we didn’t know how big it would be. We also bought a bag of plastic pirates and pirate wrapping paper and tubs of frosting/with colorings.
A big knife and the construction began.
Karolyn covered the bottom of a large flat pan with blue frosting for the ocean water.
The bottom deck and then middle deck followed by the decks that are in front and back and hold the steering wheel.
We used plenty of white frosting between the yellow cake layers.
Then tubs of Karolyn’s chocolate fudge frosting were prepared. When it was warm we poured it over the decks but as soon as it hardened it was too difficult to use and we nuked the tub to make it soft.
Finally, the frosting was finished after at least an hour to put it together.
We cut the pirate wrapping paper into strips and clued them back to back so we could have some pirate sails.
Then the plastic pirates were placed all over. All were different with: swords, stumpy legs, shoulder monkeys, rifles and more.
Cookies made the rails. And round candles were stuck in the sides like cannons.
When my son and his boys saw the finished product they really laughed and screamed, with the boys immediately sticking their fingers into the fudge chocolate.
We all gathered around and sang the song. The cannons were blown out and more clapping and laughter.
This cake brought back memories of her spaghetti and meatball cake of a few years ago.
So, hope you had a happy bday party Jimmy. I know the boys enjoyed it. And we certainly did.
Hi Everyone,
It’s been some time between postings but most of you know I’ve been really sick.
The pneumonia just won’t give up. I guess it had a good head start before I went to the ER.
Today, May 4th we celebrated a bday. He had one request for a gift. Jimmys request "Would his mother bake him a Pirate Ship Cake?"
Well, we looked it up on the internet, got some ideas. Bought supplies and this morning the putting together began.
No baking. We bought 2 flat pan cakes with no frosting. Kinda of large as we didn’t know how big it would be. We also bought a bag of plastic pirates and pirate wrapping paper and tubs of frosting/with colorings.
A big knife and the construction began.
Karolyn covered the bottom of a large flat pan with blue frosting for the ocean water.
The bottom deck and then middle deck followed by the decks that are in front and back and hold the steering wheel.
We used plenty of white frosting between the yellow cake layers.
Then tubs of Karolyn’s chocolate fudge frosting were prepared. When it was warm we poured it over the decks but as soon as it hardened it was too difficult to use and we nuked the tub to make it soft.
Finally, the frosting was finished after at least an hour to put it together.
We cut the pirate wrapping paper into strips and clued them back to back so we could have some pirate sails.
Then the plastic pirates were placed all over. All were different with: swords, stumpy legs, shoulder monkeys, rifles and more.
Cookies made the rails. And round candles were stuck in the sides like cannons.
When my son and his boys saw the finished product they really laughed and screamed, with the boys immediately sticking their fingers into the fudge chocolate.
We all gathered around and sang the song. The cannons were blown out and more clapping and laughter.
This cake brought back memories of her spaghetti and meatball cake of a few years ago.
So, hope you had a happy bday party Jimmy. I know the boys enjoyed it. And we certainly did.
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