Are you planning to throw a children's party or a pirate-themed party? So, you can’t do without cake! What will it be like? Perhaps you imagine a "Pirate" cake with sails? Or maybe it's a chest filled with treasures? Or a funny pirate face with an earring in the ear and an eye patch? Let's look at a few popular ideas that you can implement yourself. And at the same time, let's talk about the materials with which you can decorate baked goods.
The biscuit is easy to use. You can easily cut out parts of the desired shape from it and glue them together with cream. It is perfectly soaked in syrups and tastes well with meringues, butter cream, fruits, jelly, chocolate and many other products that may be useful to us in “Pirate” can also be baked based on the “Zebra” recipe, beloved by many, because a children’s dessert should be beautiful not only on the outside, but also on the inside.
Great idea - cakes with a rich chocolate aroma and taste will make a worthy match for an unusual design. And adding to the dough coconut flakes will take you into the atmosphere of the tropical islands that all pirates love so much.
But it’s hardly worth experimenting with puff pastries. They are too fragile for our purposes. It’s unlikely that “Pirate” will work based on a meringue recipe. In short, choose a recipe that produces stable, fluffy cakes.
Perhaps this option can safely be given the first position of the top. The cake will be the centerpiece of your party.
Don't be afraid of its intricate shape. It's not at all difficult to assemble. It's done something like this:
In your work, you will need bamboo sticks-skewers, which will not only act as masts and flagpoles, but will also give the elements of the ship additional fixation. And to decorate the deck, it is best to use chocolate buttercream. Although the well-known mastic, which will need to be painted brown, will also work. It will also be useful for making cake figures, because our schooner is a combat ship, not a ghost ship.
How to make a flag? It's very simple. For sails and banners, rolled out mastic or plain paper is suitable. By the way, you can write congratulations on it to the hero of the occasion.
An excellent option for those who find the ship too complicated. Still, the laconic shape of the chest is simpler, but such a dessert looks no less expressive. It's really easier to prepare. For this we need rectangular cakes. From these we assemble the base of the chest, which we generously coat chocolate cream. Using a toothpick, we make many small stripes - so the surface will look like wood. To fill the chest, we will stock up on candies in the form of gold coins, beads made from dragees, and confectionery decor “pearls”. Who said that all pirates value only gold and precious stones? Maybe someone would prefer a chest filled with M&M's candies? Such a cake will look no less great!
All that remains is to cover with a lid and generously coat it with cream. From mastic tinted yellow, you can build a lock and upholstery of corners.
The next “Pirate” cake will appeal to those who don’t like mastic. Honestly, it couldn't be easier to prepare! We will need a syringe with a nozzle. Let’s take any favorite recipe as a basis, according to which we will prepare a round-shaped cake.
First, apply white, beige, pink or light chocolate cream to the sides and top. Simply level its surface with a silicone spatula. And then using a pastry bag we squeeze out the cream of a contrasting color to make a bandana. To draw a face, you can get by with a small amount of melted chocolate. We will use it to make a bandage for the lost pirate eye.
Another spectacular dessert that does not require its creator to have a diploma from a culinary university is the Pirate Flag cake.
In this case, the culinary artist's job is solely to create the Jolly Roger banner itself and localize it on any cake. Do you want to achieve maximum believability? Use black and white mastic. To maximize the effect, before making the flag, practice drawing a skull on paper, then cut out the pieces and use them as a pattern.
Don’t forget that it is not a registered brand and no one is forcing you to make it black. You can make it orange, pink, purple. Young pirates will be especially pleased with this design. By the way, how can we not remember the sugar turtles painted with flowers! They fit well into the pirate concept.
An excellent option would be a “Pirate” cake in the shape of a card. Don’t try to repeat the outlines of the earth’s continents on it; it’s better to come up with something of your own. To make the sea surface, blueberry jelly, diluted twice as strong as the manufacturer recommends in the instructions on the pack, is perfect. And continents and mountains can be laid out with green or yellow cream.
Imagine and experiment, then the result will definitely please you.
Ingredients:
For the biscuit
eggs – 8 pieces
flour – 200 g
sugar – 300 g
vanilla sugar – 30 g (optional)
For the syrup:
water – 120 l
sugar – 130 g
For cream:
butter – 200 g
uncooked condensed milk – 8 tablespoons
For mastic:
marshmallow candies – 300 g
lemon juice – 3 tablespoons
powdered sugar – 4 cups
For chocolate glaze:
dark chocolate – 150 g
butter – 15 g
milk – 4 tablespoons
A mandatory attribute of any celebration, any holiday is birthday cake. What can you say? Children are always waiting for a birthday cake to blow out the candles and feel like the main character of this day. Therefore, it must be special, unusual and memorable. But one of the most important properties of a children's cake is its quality: the quality and conditions of preparation, the quality and freshness of the products from which it is made. Today there are various options for decorating and preparing a cake, but can we be 100% sure of its quality? Unfortunately no. Therefore, I suggest making a cake for a child’s birthday yourself. Of course, you'll have to tinker, but believe me, it's worth it. Children's eyes shining with joy and admiration will prove this to you.
Today I want to show an example of decorating a cake in the shape of a ship using a classic one. To prepare a cake in the shape of a ship, you will need to bake a base from biscuit dough, make cream, syrup, chocolate glaze and mastic decorations. Please be patient and have time, I invite you to the kitchen!
1. To prepare the mastic you will need white marshmallow candies. Cooking recipe.
IN In my case, 1 color: white (sails for the ship). Therefore, we do not add dyes.Wrap the resulting mastic in film and put it in the cold for about 30 minutes. After cooling, the mastic will be completely ready. You can sculpt anything from it.
1. Break the dark chocolate, put it in a bowl and melt it in a water bath.
2. Add the required amount of milk and mix well.
3. Then add butter, mix until smooth.
1. Cut out the base of the cake from the sponge cake.
2. Cut it lengthwise into 2 parts, soak it in syrup
3. Lubricate with cream.
4. Let's add these two parts again, we get the base for the ship. We also grease the top with cream.
5. Cut out additional parts of the ship from the sponge cake.
6. Let's assemble all the parts and grease them with cream.
7. Grind the remaining sponge cake, mix with some of the cream and form a homogeneous mass.
8. We will sculpt the sides of the ship from the mass.
9. Let's pour the whole cake chocolate icing and let it brew in the refrigerator.
10. Cut out rectangles-sails from white mastic; there should be 9 of them.
11. Sails for rounding can be placed on a rolling pin or bottle to give the desired shape.
12. We use large wooden skewers as a mast, on which we also string sails. Insert skewers into the cake.
You can also make letters out of white fondant and “write” the name of the birthday boy on the side of the ship. Having slightly moistened the letters with water, they stick perfectly and hold well.
Children's cake in the shape of a ship is ready!
If you want to be sure of a good outcome for your child or New Year's holiday, you should make your own cake. No matter how your cake turns out, it is definitely made with love for your child and guests.
A birthday cake prepared by mother’s caring hands will not only guarantee its quality, but will also give the child inexhaustible joy and pride in his mother!
Every little boy loves to watch movies about pirates, and after watching them imagine himself in the role of a ship captain. Loving parents always find a reason to please their child. And now comes the long-awaited children's birthday party. To surprise all the guests and the little birthday boy, you can give a cake in the shape of a ship. Also, such a gift is perfect for an adult man whose work is related to the courts.
How to make a "Ship" cake
It seems easy to make this cake at home. In fact, you will have to spend a lot of time. But the result of the work performed will not leave anyone without surprise and admiration. This cake is made from sponge cakes or from cakes made from puff pastry. The choice depends on the preferences and taste of the housewife. The cakes are baked according to any favorite recipe. If time is short, you can buy ready-made cakes in the store. Decorate a cake in the shape of a ship with cream or mastic. You can also buy it ready-made in the store. To make the cake delicious, you need to choose your favorite filling. The cream can be made quickly.
To create a “Ship” cake with your own hands, you need to bake four cake layers. Prepare the dough and cream according to your proven recipe or use the recipe written below.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Mix all ingredients and beat with a mixer until you get a homogeneous dough without lumps.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Place all ingredients in a bowl and beat with a mixer.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Whip the cream until stable peaks form. Then, beat with a mixer on low speed, gradually add powdered sugar. Color the finished cream in the desired color.
It is best when the dough for the “Ship” cake is made on a rectangular baking sheet. You need to prepare the dough and bake in the oven (180 degrees). While the cakes are baking, you need to prepare the cream. It can be anything: butter, protein, sour cream, semolina-based, caramel, curd. When the cakes are completely baked, remove them from the oven and wait until they cool completely. Next, coat each surface of the cake with cream and stack them on top of each other. Now it takes four hours for the cake to stand in the cold and soak.
To make it easier to make the base of the future cake, you need to take a drawing of the desired vessel, a toy, or open a photo on the computer. Using a large knife, we begin to shape the cake in the shape of a ship. We cut the nose with a triangle, rounding the edges (all trimmings should be placed in a bowl). We cut off part of the cake from the back so that the surface is even, and round each side. If it is difficult to give a shape just by looking at the example, then you need to cut out a template from paper and apply it to the cake, cutting off the necessary parts.
To form the deck, cut off part of the cake in the center. Shape so that the back deck is higher than the front, distributing the remaining cut cake pieces evenly.
When the desired shapes of the ship are completely formed, you need to level the cake. Grind the remaining trimmings and rub them with your hands to form a mixture reminiscent of a “potato” cake. Coat the entire cake in the shape of a ship with the resulting mixture. Now you need to apply the cream over the entire surface. And again send it to a cold place for a couple of hours so that it soaks, hardens and holds its shape well.
After two hours, you need to take out the cake and cover it with ganache. Ganache is melted chocolate in a water bath, diluted with cream in a 2:1 ratio. Apply with a spatula, leveling over the entire surface. To make the cake smooth, you need to heat the spatula in hot water, wipe it dry and, applying it to the surface of the cake, smooth it out. Place in the refrigerator for another hour.
Now all that remains is to give the ship a finished look. To do this, its surface must be covered with cream or sugar mastic. It depends on what you like to work with more.
Roll out a thin layer of white mastic, make an imitation of wood ( special tools or you can use a toothpick) and cover the entire cake with the ship. You don’t have to do the tree relief right away to make it easier to cover, but do it on an already covered cake. If the ship turns out to be large, then you can, by cutting out the pieces of the required length and height, separately plaster first the sides, then the mast. When everything is ready, you need to paint the ship brown. To do this, dilute the brown dye in a small amount of water or vodka and stir. Dip the sponge into the dye and carefully paint the entire cake.
From the remaining mastic you should mold the necessary elements:
Sails can be made from plain paper, from wafer or sugar paper, or from mastic. They need to be attached to wooden skewers.
How to decorate ready cake"Ship"? Cream can be used to make a wonderful deck. To do this, give the mass the desired color. The main thing is to completely evenly cover the ship with cream. Level with a spatula. You can use a toothpick to imitate a wooden surface. From above, the deck is decorated with mastic elements necessary for the design of the ship.
I spent a long time looking for something to make masts out of, because... their length should be about 40-45cm just above the cake, i.e. total length not less than 50 cm.
And I unexpectedly found such sticks in a flower shop. These are bamboo sticks that are stuck into the flower pot and used to support the flower. I washed them well. I took sticks 5-6 mm in diameter.
Here they are
First, I marked how far the stick should be inserted into the cake and into the base underneath the cake. I marked the remaining height of the mast for the yards. Then my husband drilled holes for the yards with a drill using a thin drill bit. For the rais, I took skewers for kebabs with a diameter of 2 mm.
I inserted skewers into the holes and got these two masts.
In one of the masts I made a hole obliquely for a slanting sail at the stern. I received this mast.
I made patterns for the base of the ship and the upper deck. I outlined where the masts should be.
On the backing for the cake I marked how the cake would be located and where the masts would be located I drilled holes for them
I made patterns for sails in the form of trapezoids on paper. The lower base of the largest sail was made slightly wider than the deck, all other sails were gradually reduced
Here
Then I made patterns for the slanting sails in front - the bottom one is the shortest, the top one is the longest.
I made the pattern for the rear slanting sail by eye
Now I cut out the sails using the mastic according to the pattern, making an allowance at the top.
At the same time, I marked where the pattern line was.
I laid wire for the flowers along the top line of the pattern so that the ends of the wire extended beyond the sail.
We fold the mastic along the wire so that it remains in the fold of the mastic.
Smooth out the joint. I cut the plastic corner folder into pieces according to the size of the sails. I laid the sail with a pressed seam on the plastic and laid it to dry on the bottle so that the sail turned out to be round. And the seam should remain on the concave side of the sail, i.e. it will be facing the mast
So with all the convex sails on the masts. These are the sails I got after drying
Now we fasten the sails with the ends of the wires to the yards
this is how the mast turned out
Now we make oblique sails - we insert a wire into the front ones along the long side of the sail. Then it will be attached with one end of the wire to the front mast, and the other to a skewer inserted into the bow of the ship. We insert wires into the rear sail on both sides. One side of the sail will be attached to the rear mast, and the other to the slanting yard.
I would also like to add how I assembled the ship. I first inserted the sticks (wrapped in foil) into the backing in place of the masts and put the soaked cakes on them, then spread them with cream and laid the layers. Then, when the cake was in the refrigerator, I cut out the shape of the ship, and when the cake was almost ready, I pulled out the sticks that replaced the masts and inserted the already assembled masts with sails (also wrapped in foil at the bottom). And then she attached oblique sails to the finished ship. Because The holes on the backing turned out to be too big, so when I lifted the cake, the masts fell down. So I'm from the bottom side
I sealed the holes with tape.
Cake "Ship" - great dessert for a children's party. It will delight the kids! Making something so delicious and original delicacy it can be done in different ways. We will present two recipes: the first is from sponge cakes, the second is from honey. You can choose the option you like best.
In order to prepare the above dessert you will need:
The cake in the photo shown in this article is not very difficult to make. The main thing is to use your creative imagination.
So, to prepare the dough you need to grind egg yolks together with white sugar, and then add the whites whipped to a stiff foam. Having received a lush, homogeneous mass, add flour to it, as well as soda slaked with vinegar.
To get a beautiful “Ship” cake, you need to use a not very wide, but deep rectangular pan to bake the cake. It needs to be lubricated vegetable oil, and then fill it with biscuit dough approximately two-thirds of its volume (the dough will rise). It is recommended to bake a soft and fluffy product for 56 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
After the cake is ready, it should be carefully removed from the dish, placed on a board and cooled completely.
A cake in the shape of a ship turns out to be especially tasty if you use it to prepare it. For it, you need to purchase high-quality butter and soften it thoroughly. Next, you need to thoroughly beat the product using a mixer, gradually adding condensed milk to it. To make the cream brown, add a few tablespoons of cocoa to it.
To make a “Ship” cake, you need to give the baked sponge cake a shape that will fully correspond to its name. To do this, you need to divide the rectangular cake in half lengthwise, and then cut off two corners, forming the stern. From the pieces you need to make the sides of the ship and so on.
After all the parts are cut out, they should be fastened using cream. They also need to grease the already formed dessert.
Having prepared the glaze, pour it over the entire dessert and place it in the cold. In the future, the “Ship” must be decorated with confectionery sprinkles, and also install masts (use kebab sticks for them) along with sails (they can be cut out of white paper).
Before presenting an unusual delicacy to festive table, it should be kept in the refrigerator for several hours. It is advisable to serve it to guests in the form of a ship along with a cup of tea.
We talked above about how to make this dessert from biscuit dough. Now I would like to present a recipe with honey cakes.
So, to prepare it we need:
The “Ship” honey cake, a photo of which you can see in this article, turns out incredibly tender and tasty. Before you shape it, you should make the cakes. To do this, you need to beat large eggs together with sugar, and then add honey to them and place in a water bath. Brew the ingredients for about ¼ hour. Next, you need to add a glass of flour to them and keep them on the stove for a couple more minutes. After this, the egg mass should be removed from the heat. By adding the rest of the flour to it, you should get a cool and dark place, which is recommended to be placed in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
After the specified time has passed, the base should be divided into 8 pieces, roll them into a layer, lubricating butter, and then cut out the necessary parts (stern, sides, etc.). In the future, they must be baked in the oven (for 25 minutes).
What does the Ship cake look like? You should definitely keep a photo of this dessert in front of you if you are preparing it for the first time. Then you will definitely succeed.
The cream for this delicacy is made just as easily and quickly as in the previous recipe. To do this, you need to combine condensed milk and butter, and then beat them thoroughly.
In order to make mastic, you will need:
To prepare chocolate mastic, you need to mix all the listed ingredients. As a result of these actions, you should get a fairly thick and elastic mass. It should be rolled out into a thin layer and then cut into the required parts.
If you want to get a mastic that is not dark, but white, then you do not need to add cocoa. We suggest you make mastic in two colors.
After preparing all the components of our ship, you can safely start creating the dessert. To do this, you need to place everything one by one on a flat cake pan. honey cakes, lubricating them with butter cream. The top of the dessert should also be covered with cream. After this, it must be decorated with chocolate and white fondant. As a result of such actions you should receive homemade cake, which will look very similar to a toy ship.
Make masts and sails in the same way as in the previous recipe. You can also decorate the ship with glazed sweets, which will serve as portholes.
As you can see, making it in the shape of a ship is quite easy. The main thing is to follow the sequence of the recipe. After the chocolate vessel is ready, it is recommended to send it to the cold. In a few hours it will be completely ready for consumption.
Serve the honey boat to children's party follows in its entirety. And only after the kids enjoy its unusually beautiful appearance, the dessert can be cut into portions. It is advisable to serve this beauty to the table with a cup of hot and strong tea. Bon appetit!
