A lot has been happening these past weeks. For starters, IM ENGAGED! whoopie! Big shocker. But you can read up all about my wedding plans and engagement here. 

In cake news (shop news next post) I’ve been working on a Pirate ship cake for the past 2 weeks. The first cake I shaped like a ship and it was a disaster when I put the fondant on. Then I cut the cake in half to make it smaller, and left it in the freezer for 3 days because we ended up going on a weekend vacation. So, when I got back from the weekend I wasn’t feeling in the mood to make the cake, til yesterday of course. 

This cake is for my nephew for his 3rd birthday. I have toppers in my shop for this cake on sale here.

HOW TO MAKE A FONDANT TREASURE CHEST

This week I will be making my nephews birthday cake! A pirate ship! I’m getting a head start on some of the little details.

- Take your colored fondant (i used brown) & shape it into a square. I used 2 cake smoothers to shape it.

- Take another piece of fondant and roll it to be a fat oval w/ your hands & then flatten what would be the bottom & both sides. Leave the top round. This piece will serve as the top of the chest.

- Carefully cut out a squarish hole in the bottom part of the chest. This doesn’t have to be perfect, no one will see it.

- I used a fondant tool to then make marks in both pieces to give the effect of “wood”

- Then I took strips of black and placed them on the pieces. I also gave the black fondant a print to give it a more fabric/leather look prior to cutting the strips.

- Lastly I added little brown dots & took a separate piece of fondant to add key hole (to make a key hole: use the end part of a paint brush to smooth a hole in the fondant & then a more pointer tool to make a line/rectangle, this should give your chest a more realistic look)

The gold coins I made in advance using gold luster dust and the map I just put together to add to the cake too.