Pirate Chest and Pooh Bear

This weekend I had two Saturday cakes. A pirate chest and a Winnie-the-Pooh. I was exhausted! The pirate chest was a cool cake, but I was disappointed in the appearance. I misjudged the measurments on the lid and it ended up two inches too short. Oh, well. I made the lid from cake even though I had planned on rice krispies. I am surprised it turned out this well!

The chest is made from three 8x8 square cakes. I cut the third in half and stacked it next to the other two. I would've just used a 9x13 pan, but mine is a piece of junk, so I used my good pan instead. The lid is made from one 8x3 and one 8x2 cake, cut in half and sandwiched together. I needed one more 8x2. Oops. It's all chocolate with chocolate buttercream icing and chocolate fondant accents. My fondant flopped on me so I wasn't able to cover the entire chest and could only use it for accents. I bought a can of Duff Goldman (is that his name?) silver spray from Michael's and it was junk! I am hoping to try it another time on white fondant and see if that works better, but I was sadly disappointed and had to send Louis back for a second can because I thought my first was defective. Turned out it just had much less in it than they claim. I crushed graham crackers for the sand and attached it with corn syrup.


Winnie-the-Pooh was made from my Care Bear cake pan that my mom got when I turned three. It turned out pretty good, and I had enough batter left from the pirate chest baking that I was able to make a small pooh bear for the birthday girl using my mini bear cake pan.

The large cake is a yellow mix and the small one is chocolate. I bought the Wilton tube icing in red and black, and it was expensive, but worth it to me to get the vibrant colors and not worry about mixing. It's worth my sanity.

I found out this time around that I just don't enjoy doing this like I used to. It takes me so long and costs me more than I make in time and materials. Sigh.