Pirated Sweets
September 19, 2010 ARRRRRRR mateys! Swab the poop and hoist the yardarm off the main-fore-mast-sail...thing! Today be Talk Like A Pirate Day, though sadly, we only be finding out as the sun be settin' o'er the blast horizon. So the cakey victuals, they be already chosen. Avast! Poop deck! Yet by Davy Jones' locker, we'll be doin' ARRRR best!
Now, bring on the victuals, ye scalawags!
By Colette's CakesAy! This be a mighty fine cake! Flowers and butterflies good enough for the scurviest wenches in all of Tortola. ARRR!
And what have we here?
And what do me eyes be seein'?
ARRR! More daisies! And rickrack! Rickrack's a piratey word! ARRR!
This pretty be the fairest I've seen in many a winter!
Submitted by Anne M. and made by KaylaskakesBy the powers! I feel like I be in Fiddler's Green! Where's me spyglass?
Now thARRR's some detail fer ye!
By Sweet Designs by LarissaAlas! Ahoy! Avast! Aye! um... grog! I be needin' a closer gander at this here winsome wench:
Aye, she be sweet as spiced wine, but now...We wants the redhead!
Submitted by Julie L. and made by Dragonfly
Arrr, tharrr she be.
Shiver me timbers, the redhead's a MERMAID?!? Never ye mind, lads, we'd best be hauling anchor to fairer ports; the Cap'n, he be waiting.
By Lenagc
Aye, ye never be wantin' to rile the Cap'n; he packs a right nasty left hook.
(Ahoy, be it a mite smelly in here, or is that just Smee?)
Reader Comments (80)
Arrrrr.... I be lovin' the cakes today. Me matey's and I held a morning tea at work on Friday just as an excuse to eat pirate food and talk like pirates. Two days early - but lots of fun!
That has got to be the cutest hippo I have ever seen. And the flower cakes were really pretty too. It's always nice to see the examples of when cakes go right instead of horribly wrong lol.
There is a certain irony in the fact that the cake made for Jasmine is actually Belle and not Jasmine at all.
LOLOL@ the commentary, but the cakes were beautiful
"Daisies remind me of the very first song Dr. Chandra taught me to sing, Dave. Would you like to hear it? No?
Well that be too bad for ye, Matey! Now step outside! Arr!"
HAL did conduct a mutiny of sorts...
The neat thing about flowers is, while I don't know what each and every one is properly called -- horticulture isn't my area of expertise -- I can still enjoy them. Just like I enjoy a running gag.
The one year old with the hippo cake has my name!! Which makes me really excited because I've never met anyone with my name before, and I'm 27!
Aye, that Captain Hook cake be loverly, but I thought ya should know, in JM Barrie's fine book, it's the Captain's RIGHT hand that be a hook.
what is the name of the art of paper curling? two of those cakes have flowers made like that. so cool!
the details on the flower photos are incredible.
i would not be able to cut up the darling hippo.
As soon as I read winsome wrench, I knew we wants the redhead was not far behind.
A little bit of trivia for ya. My sister in law's grandpa designed and oversaw the construction of Pirates of the Caribbean. Yup, my brother married Claude Coats' granddaughter.
I have to admit, the "We wants the redhead!" line made me just CRACK UP.
Splee!!!! There be nothin' finer nor more piratey than pretty flowers!
The perfect post for today. Not only is it Talk Like a Pirate Day, it is also my birthday!
I didn't get a cake, though... Sigh....
I want that beautiful Belle cake. But she is too pretty to eat so I guess I would just stare awhile until I am forced to eat the cake lol. I swear some of these are so beautiful I bet the people cried when they had to cut them up.
pirate-talking cakes!what a good combination! i love the intricate design on jasmine..but i cant eat it..I refuse to eat it! Its too pretty to eat..
i love eating this cake while playing
solitario mah jong. cant wait to have one..lol
*nitpickery voice*
...Don't you mean 'Talk like Robert Newton's Exaggerated West Country Accent Day'?
Fantastic post! I only grieve that 'cannibal' was misspelled on that gorgeous Captain Hook cake.
I love hippos! I hope to get an awesome hippo birthday cake some year.
This has to be the second or third time you've gotten me with the 'daisies' as I'm always at first like "what the hell? That's not a daisy.... OH! OK" And then I get that they're really just the flowers that surround Epcot :D
Quilling = win. And the rickrack cake is gorgeous!
That's also the prettiest Belle ever. Ariel looks a little wonky but not bad.
The only thing funnier than John referring to all flowers as daisies, is knowing I will find a bunch of comments from people correcting him!!
Is it just me...Or does Belle bear a striking resemblance to Olivia Wilde (#13 on House)???
Jennifer D.
I have a very strong feeling that most of this pirate speak was gleaned from Facebook Pirate English. Yarrr!
beautiful works of cake art.
I sent an e-mail to Jezebel the Webwench at the International Talk like a Pirate Day website. She was very excited and posted a link to today's Cakewrecks page. Look for the link (listed alphabetically under "Blog -and Tweet- Like a Pirate) here: http://talklikeapirate.com/tlapd10.html . She is already a fan - very cool!
Two cakes with quilling on them! Magnificent! Thanks for sharing these.
physicsmom
Hey! That Captain Hook cake was made by my sister-in-law's mother-in-law!! She does amazing work: http://www.facebook.com/#!/photos.php?id=1307824708 .
She also made an UNBELIEVABLE Very Hungry Caterpillar cake for my son's first birthday.
This post was more piratey than you thought! By the label, the rickrack cake was made for Calico Jack Rackham himself! (with some creative assumptions made, of course)
THANK YOU for remembering "Talk Like A Pirate Day"! You are the best.
Uh oh. A plane crash in the jungle. That can only mean one thing ... Hippos!