For one of my son's birthday cakes (a long time ago, since he's now 28) he wanted a theme of Pirates. We went to a cake decorating store, nearby, and bought anything having to do with Pirates. The cake I made was half-sheet, doubled so it would be deep. When it came out of the oven,There was a big hold in the middle (where it was thickest) of gloppy batter. It was too late to bake another, so I changed the original design that he and I had made, and used the "empty" middle as a lagoon, with a Pirate Ship in it, and decorated waterfalls, trees on cliffs, treasure chest, etc. It turned out to be a perfectly themed cake!

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