Pirate Ship Cake Food

PIRATE SHIP CAKE

Steps:

• Cut the cakes in half (like a half moon shape) and layer them, rounded sides all facing the same direction, adding a thin coat of chocolate icing between the layers.
• Trim the bottom curves of the cakes slightly to help them sit flat, then turn the cakes upright.
• Wrap the cakes in plastic and chill in the freezer to make them firmer.
• Tip: Two drinking straws stuck through the four layers of cake will help keep them together.
• Cover with the chocolate icing, then create planking lines along the hull with a butter knife. Chill at least one hour to firm the icing.
• Use dabs of icing to anchor larger wafer stick gunwales along the edge of the deck.
• Press the smaller wafer rolls into both sides of the ship for cannons.
• Cut sails from the paper, then slip them onto the skewers and set the masts in place.
• Add malted milk ball cannonballs, plenty of Rolo gold booty, and root beer barrels, then station a few pirates to keep watch.
• For safety, place the candles in the cookie cannons on the sides of the ship, far from the paper sails.
• Also, make sure that the surface on which the cake rests is impervious to wax, as the burning candles will drip.