Another Great Geeky Cake: The Pirate Ship

There is an excellent Instructable on this one, too! User erigeka shows the step-by-step process for building this wonderful cake, sure to excite the little pirate in all our geeklings.

To make this pirate ship cake you'll need the following

-Toy pirates (I found mine at a local party store)

-Candles

-Malt balls (these are you cannons)

-Pepperidge Farm Pirouette Chocolate Creme Filled Rolled Wafer Cookies (any brand or flavor is fine)

-drinking straws

-wood skewers

-ice cream cone

-12x18 1 1/2 inches deep or an 8 inch square baking pan depending on what size cake you want

-colored construction paper to make the sails

-sword shaped cocktail stir sticks (I found these also at my local party store)

This one looks like a winner for my younger boy's next birthday. Ahoy!

Link to the Instructable.