Are you planning to have a children's party or a pirate-style party? So you can’t do without a cake! What will he be like? Perhaps you imagine the Pirate cake as a ship with sails? Or maybe it's a treasure chest? Or a funny pirate face with an earring and an eye patch? Let's look at some popular ideas that you can bring to life on your own. And at the same time, let's talk about those materials with which you can decorate pastries.
Cakes
The biscuit is convenient in work. It is easy to cut out the details of the desired shape from it and glue them together with cream. It is perfectly saturated with syrups and combines to taste with meringue, butter cream, fruit, jelly, chocolate and many other products that may be useful to us in the design. Pirate cake can also be baked on the basis of the Zebra recipe beloved by many, because a children's dessert should be beautiful not only outside but also inside.
Great idea - brownie recipe. Intense chocolate aroma and taste will make a worthy batch of unusual design. And adding coconut into the dough will take you to the atmosphere of the tropical islands that all pirates love so much.
But with puff pastries it is hardly worth experimenting. They are too fragile for our purposes. It is unlikely that they will be able to assemble the Pirate cake based on the meringue recipe. In a word, choose a recipe that produces stable lush cakes.
Pirate schooner
Perhaps this option can be safely given the first position of the top. Cake "Pirate ship" will be the main dish of your party.
Do not be afraid of its intricate shape. It is not at all difficult to assemble it. This is done like this:
In the work you will find useful bamboo sticks-skewers, which not only act as masts and flagpoles, but also give the elements of the ship an additional fixation. And for decorating the deck, it is best to use butter chocolate cream. Although the well-known mastic, which will need to be painted brown, is suitable for everyone. She is also useful in order to make figures on the cake, because our schooner is a warship, not a ghost ship.
How to make a flag? Everything is very simple. For sails and banners, rolled mastic or plain paper is suitable. On it, by the way, you can write congratulations to the hero of the occasion.
Pirates' Treasures
A great option for those who think the ship is too complicated. Still, the laconic form of the chest is simpler, and such a dessert looks no less expressive. Cooking it is really easier. For this we need rectangular cakes. From them we collect the base of the chest, which is generously coated with chocolate cream. Using a toothpick, we make many small strips - so the surface will look like wood. To fill the chest, we stock up on candies in the form of gold coins, dragee beads, and pearl confectionery decor. And who said that all pirates value only gold and precious stones? Maybe someone prefers a chest filled with M & M's sweets? Such a cake will look no less cool!
It remains to cover and generously coat it with cream. From mastic, tinted in yellow, you can build a lock and upholstery.
Himself
The next Pirate cake will appeal to those who don’t like mastic. Honestly, cooking it is easier than easy! We will need a pastry bag or syringe with a nozzle. And as a basis we take any favorite recipe, according to which we will prepare a round cake.
First, apply the cream of white, beige, pink or light chocolate color to the sides and top. Its surface is simply leveled with a silicone spatula. And then using a pastry bag we squeeze a cream of a contrasting color to make a bandana. To draw faces, you can do with a little melted chocolate. From it we will make a blindfold on a lost pirate eye.
Jolly Roger
Another spectacular dessert that does not require a culinary university diploma is the pirate flag cake.
In this case, the work of the chef is solely to create the banner with the "Jolly Roger" and localize it on any cake. Want to achieve maximum credibility? Use black and white mastic. To maximize the effect, before you make a flag, practice drawing a skull on paper, and then cut out the details and use them as a pattern.
Do not forget that the pirate flag is not a registered brand and no one forces it to be black. You can make it orange, pink, purple. Young pirates will be especially pleased with this design. By the way, how can you not remember the sugar turtles painted with flowers! They fit perfectly into the pirate concept.
Treasure Island Map
A great option would be a pirate cake in the shape of a card. Do not try to repeat the outlines of the earthly continents on it, it is better to come up with something of your own. To make the sea expanse, blueberry jelly diluted twice as good as the manufacturer recommends in a pack instruction is perfect. And continents and mountains can be laid out with green or yellow cream.
Imagine and experiment, then the result will surely please you.