Design the cake as a ship
You can easily design a cake in the shape of a ship yourself. You don't have to be a back genius to do this. The decoration is also simple. You will have no problems with this ship cake.
Ingredients:
- Cake base (Wiener Boden)
- 2 packets of dessert cream of your choice
- milk
- 20 sheets of gelatin
- Plastic styles of balloons
- White paper
- Food coloring / cocoa powder
- characters
This is how the cake becomes a boat
- Take a finished three-piece cake base and place a paper template - which looks like a top view of a boat hull - on the first base. This should be as long as the diameter of the bottom.
- Cut out the shape with a sharp knife and make the template smaller by cutting a little all around. Now cut the 2nd Floor off and then - with the even smaller shape - the third floor. Make sure that the shapes for the ship's cake are not too small because the cake has to stand on the smallest base.
- You can cut out a cabin or superstructures for the bow from the remaining pieces of the floor. Put the 3 shelves on top of each other, the smallest must be at the bottom and bevel the side walls of the ship cake a little.
- Shorten the tubes that are attached to the balloon so that they can be used as masts for a sailing ship. These should extend through all 3 floors. Cut typewriter paper for the sails. If you want to build a three-master, the sails are rectangles, other sailing ships have triangular sails. Remember that the finished cake will get taller and make the masts a little higher. Wash the chopsticks off with hot water.
- Insert the tubes into the ship's hull and make holes in the sails. Cut small notches in the tubes into which you can slide the sails that you put on the masts. So the sails sit on the masts without slipping. If necessary, you can also fix the sails to the rods with all-purpose glue.
- Paint the sails with food coloring and use a felt pen to write the name of the person who will get the cake in the shape of a ship. The edges of the paper can come into contact with the cream of the cake, so food coloring is better.
- Wash the figures that will serve as a team well with hot water away. You can use Playmobil men or those from the Ü-Egg as figures.
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Completion of the ship
- Prepare the dessert cream, for example mousse or paradise cream, in separate containers according to the instructions on the package. Dissolve 10 sheets of gelatine in cold water and melt them one after the other by heating. This can be done in the microwave at 30 W in approx. 30 sec. or carefully in a saucepan on the stove.
- Fold the gelatine under the two creams and spread part of one of the creams on the smallest base. Place this on the cake plate. Put the next floor on, spread the other cream on top and put the last floor on.
- Color the cream that you have left over brown with cocoa and cover the cake with it. Put on the superstructures as well.
- Put the prepared masts in the cake. Color part of the remaining cream blue and use a smooth nozzle or a leaf nozzle to tip some “water” around the bottom of the ship. This gives the cake more stand and it looks nice.
- Color the rest of the cream as you like and use it to point some decorations onto the vessel. Now all you have to do is put the crew on the ship and stick a cardboard or plastic steering wheel in the cream. Please put cardboard decorations just before the Serve on the ship cake.
Now the ship cake only needs a few hours in the refrigerator become solid.
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