Whoa, this is so awesome! Your Pirates are perfect and so cute, your cake is perfectly smooth and the treasure chest is the perfect topping for this flawless cake....kudos to you!!!!!!
Wow, this is awesome!!! The most impressive smooth buttercream and pirates!! Please share techniques for smoothing buttercream. This is an art and skill built into one... Thanx in advance. 8)
Thanks everyone for the compliments! I'll try to answer as many questions as I can (1) "SM" is swiss meringue buttercream. (2) I wish there was an easy way to tell you how to get the icing smooth. Truthfully, it takes me a long time (at least an hour just to frost the cake!). I just keep playing around until I get it right. Start with a crumb coat and use a six inch spackle from the hardware store to apply the buttercream. Be sure to wipe the spackle in warm water and dry it off between applicat...
(3) To prop up the lid on the treasure chest, I hid bamboo skewers (cut to the appropriate length) in the pot of gold and inside the silver sword on each end of the treasure chest. This way no one could see the supports. (The cake that forms the lid is placed on cardboard and is completely covered in fondant.
Did you take classes how to make such an beautiful sculptures? This is so amazing, You surely have gifted hands. Keep up a great work love to see more of your work. :D :D
Thank you for posting this - it inspired me to make my own pirate figures. They didn't turn out as well as yours, but yours is so exquisite! I need to practice more! I made these for my son's pirate ship cake and it was a hit! Thank you so much!
Adorable. So much detail in your little pirates!!!
I love it, very nice job!!!! 8O
I have a pirate cake this weekend, wish I had seen this sooner. So very cute, Great Job!!!!
Love 'em!!!
So cute!! All of the details are awesome! That took some time!!
This is so adorable!!! I hope I get asked to do a pirate cake so I can use this for inspiration someday! Great job!
Wow, how did you get your buttercream so smooth? Fab details on the pirates :D
I just love ALL you fondant figures on this cake and in your gallery. You have such a wonderful talent.
They are so cute.
Such adorable pirates. The one on the end look like he has had too much rum! LOL!!
This is SOOOO cute - Love it!
so cute..how did you do these???
outstanding best pirate cake i ve seen ;-D
This is a fantastic cake ! love the blue BC , love the pirates, love the chest :D
That's so adorable! I just love all those little pirates!! Great job on the rest of the cake and the chest, too!!
i LOVE IT!!!!
Wow, these are lovely!!
This is absolutely precious. I love it! AWESOME job!
Absolutely adorable!!! Awesome job ;-D
they are so adorable!
that is the most darling little cake - the pirates are great!
Oh my goodness! These are just ...there are no words...cute and adorable don't do them justice! Your work is just amazing!
How very cuuuuuuute!
Wonderful! Each has his own personality. Love the expressions!
Whoa, this is so awesome! Your Pirates are perfect and so cute, your cake is perfectly smooth and the treasure chest is the perfect topping for this flawless cake....kudos to you!!!!!!
Absolutely wonderful! Love all the detail that you put into this cake. Great job!
Oh I am so glad to see the whole cake!! I loved the little guys all by themselves but this is great!!!
Is this fondant with gum tex??
OMG-these are SO adorable!!! The details are so great!! Did you use edible markers on their shirts or roll lines in the fondant??
This cake is entirely TOO cute! Awesome detail!
LOVE this cake! The pirates are sooo cute!
WOW! What talent you have!
Pirates kids are adorable. Great job!
Awesome !
Um... wow!!! so well done! AWESOME.... gret job, so cool!!!, love it!!!
Wow, this is awesome!!! The most impressive smooth buttercream and pirates!! Please share techniques for smoothing buttercream. This is an art and skill built into one... Thanx in advance. 8)
I LOVE this.. I have 5 months till my husbands birthday... I wonder if I can make something event remotely as cute.. he loves pirates! : )
This is the cutest cake ever!
How did you get the treasure chest to stay open?
How did you get the treasure chest to stay open?
Just adorable!
Love your cake! What is SM Buttercream? I'm new to this site and I'm having a little trouble with the abbreviations. Is there a list somewhere?
so adorable!! great job
Oh my gosh! I love the one in the middle!! He has that little pirate snarl going on and still looks so cute!!
Sooo cute!
Your characters are just adorable!
Great attention to detail. Added to my favs for sure.
i just love these guys they are super cute!!!
So pretty!. Nicely done!!Sooo cute!
Adorable! I love the parrot - so cute!
Adorable!
As if the little pirates couldn't get any cuter? Absolutely adorable!!
These are great. I love your attention to detail.
Thanks everyone for the compliments! I'll try to answer as many questions as I can (1) "SM" is swiss meringue buttercream. (2) I wish there was an easy way to tell you how to get the icing smooth. Truthfully, it takes me a long time (at least an hour just to frost the cake!). I just keep playing around until I get it right. Start with a crumb coat and use a six inch spackle from the hardware store to apply the buttercream. Be sure to wipe the spackle in warm water and dry it off between applicat...
(3) To prop up the lid on the treasure chest, I hid bamboo skewers (cut to the appropriate length) in the pot of gold and inside the silver sword on each end of the treasure chest. This way no one could see the supports. (The cake that forms the lid is placed on cardboard and is completely covered in fondant.
Your pirates are so cute and very detailed! I love everything about it
You did such a great job. Your figures & detail on them is wonderful.
Another perfect design!
Love'em!
Fantastic! Love all the detail in the little pirates.
Very Cute! Now we could see how you used the pirates!! Great job!! :D
Oh my gosh that is the most precious thing! What a lot of work and absolutely adorable!!! I think this is one of my favorite pirate cakes ever!
Did you take classes how to make such an beautiful sculptures? This is so amazing, You surely have gifted hands. Keep up a great work love to see more of your work. :D :D
i love this cake it sooo cute :)
I love the expressions, the variety, the customes... They are lovely. Congratulations for your work, your hability and your imagination.
Thank you for posting this - it inspired me to make my own pirate figures. They didn't turn out as well as yours, but yours is so exquisite! I need to practice more! I made these for my son's pirate ship cake and it was a hit! Thank you so much!
Supercute! Oh, I mean superscarry... :D