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Treasure Map Cake

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Ahoy thar, me hearties! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day on this here 19th September, so for the occasion I been a bakin' and decoratin' away on this particular assemblage, what do ye think?

This was actually an order from the landlord of what is quite likely my favourite pub: The Lamb, in Lewes, Sussex. The 'Lamblord', as he is fondly known, is just about the best pub owner there is. He loves music, is very friendly and welcoming, and orders my cake! ;) Anyway, the Lamblord is all for celebrating piratey things, so for TLaP day, he's having a bit of a do: pirate shanties from a pirate band, pirate fancy dress, chocolate 'gold' bars (containing Kraken rum), and a treasure map cake with actual treasure inside! Yes! Thar be prizes in slices! (Don't worry, it's all plastic then foil wrapped before being concealed in between the layers.)

So, the cake is a vanilla sponge (plus buried silver and gold!), vanilla buttercream and strawberry jam. The waves bordering the cake are made of buttercream dyed blue, and the 'sand' below is light brown muscovado sugar. Both the scroll and map are rolled out fondant icing that I daubed with a sponge in browns/yellows to create that classic aged effect of pirate's treasure maps. Once dried, the detail was all painted on with slightly watered down colour paste, with the writing carefully added in edible pen ink. The map is entirely my own creation; I had a mental image of what I wanted and thankfully it came out just as I'd hoped :)

The ship and treasure chest are handmade out of icing, with customised cocktail stick & paper sails (just about the only inedible bits of the cake - along with the hidden treasure!), and various edible sugar decorations for the 'treasure' in the chest.

I was really excited about doing this one, so I hope you like my work! :D Thank you for viewing, faving and commenting :heart:

Oh, and have yerselves a swashbuckling adventure talking like a pirate! :pirate: :ahoy:

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Image size
1024x1365px 248.58 KB
Make
Panasonic
Model
DMC-FS30
Shutter Speed
10/400 second
Aperture
F/3.4
Focal Length
5 mm
ISO Speed
80
Date Taken
Sep 18, 2013, 1:39:28 PM
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ginas-cakes's avatar
Great job. The map looked like it was fun to do...and the details are really good :D