My husband wants to do a viking motif for my son's second birthday. He found this website that has a viking cake he wants to try and replicate. I'm new to doing cakes but I was trying to figure out if this was half circles layered vertically or was it standard horizental layers that were carved?


http://littlesomethings-ch.blogspot.com/2010/01/wikinger-geburtstagsparty.html


Any suggestions on how to do this?

It looks like a cake cut in half and then a little shaved off the bottom for stability with lots of ganache holding the 2 halves together. I see Pocky candy being used for the oars and maybe Rollos and candy melts being used for the shields/portholes. HTH!

Edited to add: I bet you could really make an awesome viking helmet cake by either carving or maybe even using the Wilton wonder mold pan.

Here are pictures of the practice cake I made today. The first is all the cake trimmings I cut away from four round cakes to make the ship. The second is the final result. I will do a proper sail for his birthday. Still trying to decide how I want to decorate the top. The last is Sebastian admiring the results.

https://picasaweb.google.com/pbuder/10291102?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCOXvgf3jh_aH_AE&feat=directlink