Customer Reviews

Nordic Ware Pro Cast Pirate Ship Cake Pan

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The Nordic pirate ship pan was great in that it popped out of the pan perfectly with all detail in place. However, frosting is thick and there is no way you can get the detail of cannons, the planking on the exterior, the steering wheel, etc...they just get buried under frosting, Someone would have to devise a spray frosting for this purpose. I used a McCormicks red velvet cake recipie and it filled the pan 3/4 full to allow for rising-which was perfect. In this pan, the cake baked for an hour until it was done. The pan makes a perfect slicing cake of large pound cake like slices. For decorating, since you could not get the detail, I frosted that top then used colored frosting to draw cannons with candy dot ends and used a plastic pirate figurine holding a steering wheel, and gently inserted Hershey bar pieces for floor planks, etc. The ship came out great and I love the even baking quality, easy release and easy cleanup of the pan.

Although some of the little details are hard to see, most of them are great. All of the different levels on the top allow for a lot of different options to decorate the cake, from a simple glaze to lots of candy and frosting accents with different items in different places. The cake also came out very evenly baked and didn't stick at all after I sprayed it with baking spray.

Loved this pan. It was so easy to use (used the floured Pam) and made a big hit once decorated (a little or a lot). A hit with the adults as well as the children.

Knowing my penchant for whimsically-shaped bundt pans, my son gave me the Nordic Pirate Ship Cake Pan as a surprise gift. It is adorable, but it wasn't until I finally baked the first rum cake (what else would you bake in a pirate ship?) that I realized how fabulous this pan is.

Like my other Nordic pans, the workmanship is excellent - this pan will last longer than I will. ;o) Every detail comes out perfectly, with a little help from my baking spray (the one with flour in it.) I added a couple of wooden skewer masts, a few sails and flags - including, of course, the Jolly Roger - and that's really all the decoration it needed. I've added my photos above - I was really pleased with how it came out!

Regarding the complaints about how difficult it is to frost this cake: don't! I would not even attempt to frost this cake (my hat is off to everyone who's tried), because the fine details can't help but get lost. Rather, if your plain cake needs a little something more, I recommend using a glaze. Actually, I highly recommend my recipe - it is adaptable for non-alcoholic flavors - just google "Bacardi Rum Cake". Just skip the nuts unless you are going for more of a ship wreck kind of effect!

I love this pan, the castle shaped pan and the stadium shaped pan all from Nordic ware. The pans are exceptionally well made and worth the price even tho it is high.

This pan works really well (grease and flour well despite the non-stick coating). There are a lot of details, but be prepared to do a lot of decorating to highlight the details because they are hard to see when the cake is all one color.

The detail is all but impossible to bring out if you use any kind of icing at all. i ended up using chocolate ganache to cover, and then i added marzipan planks and decking. turned out pretty well, considering. i did like that nothing stuck inside the cakepan, despite the detail. pan's a little heavy