Today we hosted a party inviting a few of our favourite mums, dads and kids to showcase the Pirate Party Cake Kit available to buy from Baking Mad. This was one of our more challenging Talk to Mum campaigns.  Although we have made cakes from scratch many times before this one was quite ambitious!

It was great to try a filled cake.  The colourful chocolate beans look incredible when they spill out. I don’t know why we haven’t baked a similar cake to this before.  We possibly thought it would be harder than it is. But mainly I think having the Baking Mad recipe gave us more confidence as a family to go ahead and try something new. I did feel we were in good hands with them seeing as they are so enthusiastic about baking. We have mastered mini battenburg with one of their recipes before.

So Much Included In the Kit

The kit included many of the ingredients you need to get started. Although that doesn’t include eggs and butter.  But they are kitchen staples you hopefully have in. It’s still very convenient having most of the items delivered because it saves traipsing around the shops. Our local supermarket doesn’t always stock everything either.  Getting a cake board or a black icing pen isn’t guaranteed, it’s the luck of the draw what’s left on the shelves.

We could have done with a bit more icing sugar included in the kit and possibly a stencil for the skull and cross bones sugar paste shape.  Although its amazing what you can achieve when you put your mind to it. There was plenty of vanilla essence left over so that will be handy for our next bake.

The Finished Cake

The end-result looks so professional, we have bought cakes before made locally and this was easily as good as anything made by those regular skilled bakers.

The party was a success! The cake looked great and tasted delicious, all the mums, dads and kids enjoyed sampling it @talktomumsuk #bakingmadwom #talktomums great concept @bakingmad it challenged us to be better bakers x

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My children enjoyed being involved in the process too, mixing the butter icing, rolling out the little black sugar paste balls to decorate around the top and bottom of the cake and even trying their hand with the icing pen.

The pirate cake is coming along nicely (scroll for more pics), the boys have enjoyed doing their bit to help! It’s our first filled cake so VERY excited to cut it open later and for the chocolate beans to spill out #bakingmadwom @talktomumsuk @bakingmad x

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Yes you can go to the shops and buy a cake already made and ready to go.  Alternatively you can pay a lot more again and have it done by a local baker.  But the one you make with this kit will leave you feeling so proud of your achievement. I don’t think you can compare that. It was quite time consuming.  However with practise I think we would get quicker and better.

Cutting the Cake

The Baking Mad cake was so moreish! It had a lovely vanilla taste was moist and appetising.  The children all loved those chocolate beans.

I think the dog thought it was a barking mad party instead as she tried to get in on the action too.  Although she does make a cute pirate dog no cake for you sorry!

The Baking Mad kit is reduced at the moment from £44.99 to £33.74.  So it’s a great time to try it out if you have a special birthday coming up that needs that show stopping cake that will take center stage. Accessories like the plates and pirate ship centerpiece are extra but well worth adding to your order if you want to build on the theme.