Pirate ship cake

[GhostofNatt]

"with ghosts and treasure and ghost pirates". Grateful for any suggestions, too hot to work...

Ok, I know everyone has been waiting anxiously for an update, oh yes. Have two round 10 inch cakes in my fridge chilling so that they will carve beautifully into semicircles thsi evening. Also some new playmobil pirates, malteser cannonballs etc. Am not convinced is going to look anything like the Disney pic but oddly excited anyway. Anyone else had a go??

Ughhh, thsi thread has just come into ghastly conjucntion with the one about pubic hair so am posting again to get it somwehere more salubrious...

do you know, I have been wondering

please, are you going to do the ghosts?

Oh thank you binkie. I hope it hasn't been keeping you up at night. I am hoping to be doing the ghosts - DP has promised to pick up ready-to-roll icing on his way home, but he expressed great dubiety as to whether such a thing could exist so he may get slecetively blind in the bakings ection in which case i will have to purloin one of the boys' playmobil ghosts. I don't belive there are are any Peter PAns by the way hf - playmobil catalogue very well thumbed in our hosue...

Will post pic focussing on binkie's ghosts, unless it is an utter catastrophe and have to make cupcakes with skulls and crossbones on instead.

Well, I know many of you (binkie) have been wiating breathlessly to hear all about this. Course of events:
8:30 pm, kids in bed, make two round cakes
9:30: two cakes sawn in half and stuck together with icing and stood upright, growing unease, stick three skewers through to be on safe side
10:30 pm: cake covered in icing, playmobil pirate in place, plus treasure chest full of silver balls, SS DS2 name piped on side. Congratulate self and take break before attempting binkie's ghosts.
11:30 pm: back to kitchen, cake has fallen to pieces along fault lines, playmobil pirate peering from rubble.

2:30 am: finish round cake decorated as above - very fat round pirate ship
WARNING: if making Disney pirate ship cake, make with very dry cake stuck together with glue!

it's the growing unease that got me

Still, I bet it tasted great, didn't it? The coalsack similarly was delicious.

it's ok, am laughing now. Felt a bit superhero-ish once finished second cake. would love to have seen coalsack barbie, binkie, tee hee. hf - my advice would be make cakes based on things which are naturally round - eg the sun, a face, a football, an island, a cake. last year stuck a castle together with so many wooden skewers am lucky no child had splinters in throat...

id you have a piccy for us...would love to see these cakes...