Just catching up with things. Hope that the pneumonia is under control (be glad that you aren't a real pirate shouting into the icy winds) and that your son appreciates all the stories. A Captain Jack cake would be a rum deal. I'd make it just like a fruit cake and hide small treasures in it. (There are traditional 12th Night cakes with small lucky objects.) Yellow frosting with a "pieces of eight" coin design. Pirate trivia: What do c 3 o S stand for? They are all pieces of "8" Carolly