Pirate Ship Cake

Pirate Ship Cake

Supplies:

*Chocolate Cake Mix of your choice and make according to directions in a long Loaf Pan sprayed with cooking spray and lined with parchment paper for easy removal.

*Milk Chocolate Frosting, 16-ounce container

*Glico Pocky Chocolate Biscuit Sticks, row sticks and Bowsprit found at Walmart

*Pirate Silicone Molds, found on Amazon

*Candy Root Beer Barrels

*Milk Duds, window port holes

*Werther’s Original Hard Caramel Candy

*Rolo’s, stacked half-barrels.

*Whoppers Malt Balls, cannon balls

*Twix Bar for the back of the Ship, optional

*Any other candy decor for your pirate ship

*Ghirardelli White Chocolate Melting Wafers, melt according to directions and pour into molds allow to set in the refrigerator.

*Gel Food Colors: Copper, Red, Black and Blue of choice. Start with 4 drops of food gel and add a few drops of lemon extract or vodka (add more as needed) and mix well with toothpick until color gets into extract or vodka and paint onto chocolate with food paint brushes, sometimes your finger is a good tool too. Note: The paint will dry to a tacky state it won’t completely dry. Repeat for each color and make more paint as needed.

*Lemon Extract or Vodka for mixing with gel colors to make a paint to paint on White Chocolate Pirate Characters.

*Small tip Food Paint Brushes

*Scrapbook Paper of your choice for Sails and Flags or Jolly Roger and Scissors and doubled sided tape

*3 Skewers for Sail Masts

Decorate your pirate ship as desired!!!