Pirate Ship Cake

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 2 round cake, premade (9 or 10 inch)
• 3 -4 cups chocolate icing
• chocolate rolled wafer cookie (such as pepperidge farm pirouette cookies)
• milk chocolate wafer cookie (sticks, waffeletten cookies)
• 3 pieces of colored paper
• 3 wooden skewers (10 inch each)
• malted milk balls
• rolo chocolates
• root beer, barrels

Recipe

• 1 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.
• 2 trim the bottom curves of the cakes slightly to help them sit flat, then turn the cakes upright.
• 3 wrap the cakes in plastic and chill in the freezer to make them firmer.
• 4 tip: two drinking straws stuck through the four layers of cake will help keep them together.
• 5 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.
• 6 use dabs of icing to anchor larger wafer stick gunwales along the edge of the deck.
• 7 press the smaller wafer rolls into both sides of the ship for cannons.
• 8 cut sails from the paper, then slip them onto the skewers and set the masts in place.
• 9 add malted milk ball cannonballs, plenty of rolo gold booty, and root beer barrels, then station a few pirates to keep watch.
• 10 for safety, place the candles in the cookie cannons on the sides of the ship, far from the paper sails.
• 11 also, make sure that the surface on which the cake rests is impervious to wax, as the burning candles will drip.