Our cake was for a Pirates party. We got the treasure box cake idea from a magazine but I wanted to do a cake that is easy to prepare. The treasure box cake is made from a regular cake mix (we took vanilla). I used a pound cake baking pan and baked it for 45 … Read more
Take candy strips or fruit by the foot to make the straps on the chest on each side. Put small candies along the straps to appear as nails. Then carefully fill with an assortment of candy: gold coins, rock candy, candy necklaces, and/or bracelets. Whatever you want to fill your cake with. Enjoy! This really … Read more
I made this treasure chest cake for my 6 year old twins birthday Party. I made three separate cakes in a 9’11 cake pan. I froze the cakes till they were hard. I took 2 frozen cakes and placed one on a cake board. I used Playdoo like white frosting between the two cakes and … Read more
I made this pirate treasure chest birthday cake for my little girl’s first birthday – having read lots of posts about using doweling to prop the lid open or making the lid out of rice krispies or wedging it open with extra bits of cake I was starting to panic that it was all very … Read more
This was a Treasure Chest Birthday Cake I made for my child’s 3rd pirate birthday with ideas I found off the net. It was cooked in a 13×9 pan. I cut a 2in wide section off and then evenly cut the cake in half to make the top and bottom. The 2in wide section was … Read more
I made this Homemade Treasure Chest Birthday Cake for my grandmother’s 80th birthday party (Pirate theme: Arg Matey! Faye is Eighty!). I made 3 (or 4?) 9×12 cakes from marble cake mix (2 boxes) and froze them until it was time to assemble. The freezing helped with carving the barrel shape of the lid. I … Read more
This was so much fun and one of the coolest cake decorating ideas. I got the idea from just looking at examples of pirate themed parties. I decided to use a loaf pan for the chest. I took a package (18.25 oz) of moist chocolate cake mix, added 1 cup of water, 1/3 cup of … Read more
The sand is graham crackers crushed. I added some Lego palm trees, beads, and candles from local store. The whole pirate birthday cake took less than 45 minutes. You can make any flavor cake and make it as intricate as you want.
I started this Treasure Chest Birthday Cake Idea with a square cake tin, and made (of course!) a chocolate cake (the recipe was Loni Kuhn’s Devil Food Cake recipe – easy to make, but delicious). This was cut in half laterally, and then chocolate buttercream put in between, to bump up the size of the … Read more
Before my son was born I decided that I would maintain a nautical theme baby shower, RED and BLUE (primary), room, propeller fan, light house pictures, Red furniture, blue suede wall below chair rail, you get the idea. Well, after he was born, he was ALL boy, all 11 lbs of him (1 week early), … Read more
I made this Pirate’s Treasure Chest Birthday Cake for my 4 year old boy. It was made from 3 vanilla cakes. I chose the top section from the 3 cakes first, by deciding which cake had the most domed rise (to give the effect of the lid of the chest.) I placed one on the … Read more
This Treasure Chest Cake was made for my son’s 1st grade teacher for her birthday. His whole class was decorated in a pirate theme so I thought a treasure chest would be perfect. I made 2 13×9. I cut one in half and stacked them on each other. I then frosted that part of the … Read more