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Cheesy on the Outside (Captain Hammer’s Cake)

By: Pfoinkle

Captain Hammer Logo Cake with buttercream frosting and fondant accents.

Captain Hammer Logo Cake with buttercream frosting and fondant accents.


Let me be clear. There’s no cheese on (or in) this cake. And it’s not pie. I know Captain Hammer’s cake should be a pie, but this is a blog about cakes.

I don’t know how to make pie.

Captain Hammer Cake Supplies

  • 3 Cake Layers, two yellow, one chocolate
  • Buttercream Frosting
  • Fondant
  • Gel Food Coloring (Brown, Yellow, Black)
  • Wilton’s Silver Pearl Dust

And sometimes there's a third, even deeper level.

And sometimes there's a third, even deeper level.

Yellow cake seemed an excellent choice for Captain Hammer (you know, because of his logo), but I didn’t want just a yellow cake. The top layer is yellow cake, the second (middle layer) is chocolate, and the bottom layer is yellow cake.

And sometimes there’s a third even deeper level and that one’s the same as the top surface level.

Frost the cake with chocolate buttercream frosting and use the paper towel method to smoothe the buttercream.

Making the fondant Captain Hammer Logo

Making the fondant Captain Hammer Logo

The logo on the top is made from fondant. Download theCaptain Hammer Logo pattern and cut the circle out of yellow fondant, the hammer haft out of brown fondant, and the hammer head out of grey fondant.

Dry brush Silver Pearl Dust on the grey fondant hammer head. Attach the hammer to the circle my lightly moistening the back of the pieces and placing them on the circle.


Pressing the fondant logo into the buttercream.

Pressing the fondant logo into the buttercream.

Allow the fondant logo to “rest” for 10-15 minutes and then place it on top of the buttercream frosted cake. Gently press the logo edges down into the buttercream.


The Captain Hammer cake before adding trim.

The Captain Hammer cake before adding trim.

At this stage, I thought I was finished with the cake. But it needed more, something to pull it together.

Something to make it look less like a big chocolate ball.


The manly cake ruffle.

The manly cake ruffle.

I thought about piping a buttercream border around the base, but dismissed the idea as “too feminine”. Imagine my chagrin when I ended up making a fondant ruffle for the base of the cake. When I realized what I had done, I considered removing the border. But Mr. Pfoinkle walked in and as I was bemoaning the ruffleness of it all, he stared at the cake. And then he said,

“Lacy, gently wafting curtains.”

I married well.

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