This buried treasure cake was an eight inch vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing. It was made for a pirate theme birthday party that was around Halloween...

For this pirate ship cake, I made 2- 9x13 sheet cakes. I cut one into about thirds (cut short length when cake is horizontal). Two pieces were about an inch longer than the 3rd...

This treasure chest cake was so much fun! I started by baking 3 layers of 9X13 cakes. And cooled. I froze one of the layers for a few hours, this will be the lid, it's easier to carve when frozen...

I used the pirate ship shaped cake pan to bake the cake and I used buttercreme icing to decorate this pirate ship cake...

Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. With an icing filled bag and round tip, size #5, draw the pirate on the top of the cake. Cut the cake away from the pirate outline...

Bake a sheet cake the size you will need. Draw on the cake using an icing filled bag with a round tip #5 using the above picture as your guide. (If you mess up, you can just scrape it off and do it again until you are satisfied with your shape.)...

I used two round cake pans, size 6, then crumb coated it with butter cream and put a cream cheese filling in the middle first. I used fondant in tan color for the whole cake...

Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. Ice the cake in white or ivory buttercream icing using a cake spatula and making sure the surface is smooth. Let it set about 15 minutes...

To make this pirate treasure cake, I used a sheet cake and frosted the entire cake with white butter cream, on the diagonal I applied crushed Nilla wafer cookies...

To make this pirate ship cake, bake three 1/4 sheet cakes or size needed. Stack all three cakes with icing, making sure to use dowels for support...

This ship cake is made up of one 6x12" chocolate square cake, with cream icing and fondant for the tree's decorations. I made this cake for my friend's husband who really loves ships...

I made this treasure chest cake with a half sheet cake cut in 4 pieces. I covered in supposedly gold color buttercream. I added some wiggly decorations made with chocolate at the 4 corners...

To make this treasure chest cake, I used white cake mix, white icing colored brown, yellow icing, and black icing gels for the detailing. I also used toy gold coins for the details around the treasure chest...

This treasure chest cake is 3 layers of chocolate slab cake stuck together with jam. Stack them up and then hollow out the top layer to make the chest bit!...