Ahoy Mateys!

It's wonderful to note that everything I need to know about making a birthday cake is on the web! And it isn't just any birthday cake at that. It is a pirateship-looking cake for my Captain P who is turning four on the 21st of February.

Thanks to google search, I found a simple and highly rated chocolate cake recipe as well as one for choco frosting.

It was one thing to make it and to make it look fun and interesting. It's another thing to wrap it up and transport it. Visions of my college friends who took up engineering came to mind while I was wrapping up the cake. They would have measured every angle and side and produced a well-proportioned and stable packaging for this. In my own layman's way, I got a used file folder, wax paper, a stapler and tape and voila! I managed to package the Pirateship cake and bring it to Captain P's Precoce all in one piece. Whew!

Ok, so it looks more like a barge or something than a ship but it won Captain P's approval and the favor of his classmates and teachers. :)

Not bad for a first (well, ok second cake because I did a dry-run two weeks ago... hehehe). Thanks to the expensive cost and lack of sweetness and options for children's birthday cakes here in Luxembourg, a corporate lady turned homemaker like me is finding joy in making sweet fun treats for my boys.

Thanks to the links below, I am slowly redeeming my reputation as a bad-floppy baker. Hahaha!!!

One bowl chocolate cake recipe
Rich Chocolate frosting
Piping bag instructions
Nutella Frosting
Pirateship Cake Design Samples