Hello,
It is my brothers birthday in the 2nd of January. I wanted to make him a cake similar to the one in this link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiocake/2191031258/

Can someone PLEASEEEEEE help me on how I can make the ship? I have never carved a cake before. Also I wanted place the ship cake onto a sheet cake, will I need to use a dowl to stop it from sinking into the sheet cake?

I would be grateful for any help as I have no idea how to go about making this cake.

Aish

Here's a great tutorial by karensue: http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=556493&highlight=


and here's the ship she writes about: http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=774043

good luck. I'm sure you will have great sucess on the cake, this site is awesome for its helpful members

There's also a pirate ship cake pan:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0012PU89K/?tag=cakecentral-20

HTH

When I did my pirate ship cake I used an iron and traced the bottom of the iron on a piece of cardboard and then carved the cake from that. Hope this helps. There is a pic of my ship in my gallery.

Just wanted to thank everyone for their help! I made the cake....lol it's not great but I am just learning....

Did you post a pic?

I made a three level pirate theme cake with ship and islands very fun cake to make I just used Alamosweets and the Debbie Brown instructions my nephew loved it here is the link to the picture
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1418984

Molly

Oh wow...I just saw your pics....they look amazing!
No I did not post pics....lol the cake did not look too great....I found it very difficult