Talk like a pirate day

It just so happens that this is also Jakub's B'day so I made him a pirate ship cake.
To start with I googled images with "pirate birthday cake" query and got an idea - in fact tons of ideas but this one seemed particularly simple and doable with what I had.
Needless to say I even went to store first, but as usual did not find what I was looking for and did not want to fork out almost $40 for mostly plastic cake (and I would have to go back to the store again to pick it up once they made it!). So I just went downstairs where my colleagues have stash of candy for the rest of us got some Rolos, Kit-Kats, and Twix bars, knowing that at home there is box of Legos and we did have one pirates island lego a while back. The hard part was to actually sift through the box full of Legos and find pirates and some accessories.
I pulled out my zucchini bread from freezer the day before, so I knew that that part is definitely done. (I baked about 12 of those weekend before I froze most of them - we will eat them through the winter I have like freezer full of those now.)
Anthony suggested that if I make pirate ship one guy must be walking the plank so the final version is here.


I cut the zucchini bread so it has point in the front and saved the pieces for islands. I left to sift through Legos, but by the time I got back Tomas ate one of the Islands. That was actually ok, plus he did not have a clue, they were islands while he was eating it.
I put the frosting on teh cake and ran around with the knife to make impression of wooden planks. decorated with candy bars - Rolos are great side cannons!
added candles and sails - they quickly recognize my artwork on the sails.
The only trouble was that once I lit the candles (18 is quite a lot) teh sail actually caught fire. Thanks to Jakub's big lungs he blew it out quickly and nothing else burned. Anyway it was quite a special effect.

So Happy B'day Jakub.