If you take a lot of love and hard work and a mind to make something special for your grandson--Owen's 4 birthday, you will end up with a special cake.And it taste' great too.....
Karolyn was nervous for weeks. How to make this cake better than the pirate cake for Nate.
First it had to be Awesome.
2nd it had to feed up to 50 people.
Shopping took days. Karolyn hit all the party stores and dollar stores looking for pirate stuff.
Pirate Gummies were a good find as well as Shark Gummies.
Then gold colored chewing gum. Yum, Yum.
Finally, she went to the local Sarah Lee bakery outlet store, a half block from our home. Sorry but with all the graduations most of our tray cakes are gone.
Why don't you call some of the others. The Palatine store manager said he had three and would save them for us.
An hour drive there and back and we had the 3 layers of cake.
She made a cardboard template of the shape and that's how it got its design.
Layer upon layer and she used the trimmings to make the fore and aft decks...what ever those are.
Next the frosting. She makes it herself and used her fudge recipe, applying it thick and heavy.
We waited to decorate it until we got to the birthday party house in YEP..Palatine.
The boys eye's got big when they saw it being carried it. Shortness of breath from carrying it too. Heavy...
Karolyn put it on a new poster board...you know like a 1/4 inch thick.
The cakes were placed on it. I did mention she made a second cake. She decorated that one like a pirates island.
She smooied a blue/green frosting around the boat and island. The gummy fish were stuck into these. Sharks, Octopus' Squid and Dolphins.
The sails were made of Pirate wrapping paper twisted and clued together..
While doing this, the boys ran and put on their new pirate costumes.
They were now into the spirit.
The photos just don't do the cakes justice.
As all the guests arrived and they saw the cake, their eyes all popped out and each one asked if she would agree to make/sell one to them.
After 3 weeks of shattered nerves, the answer was just an eye-ball stare.
A few hours later everyone gathered around the table and the kids sat there for 20 minutes staring at the cake and waiting for the candles to be lit.
It was a great cake and every child asked their parents if they could have AN AWESOME PIRATE cake for their birthdays.
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