I made this Dump Truck Birthday Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I got the idea from a Wilton Fondant Yearbook. We used blue and grey to match my husband’s flat bed truck. To make the truck I covered a Styrofoam block with foil to raise the cake. For the truck body, I baked chocolate … Read more
For this Dump Truck construction cake, I cut up two-pound cakes (just the pre-made kind in the freezer at the grocery store). I arranged the pieces to resemble a regular delivery truck, and then carved out the section of the back piece to make it the bed of a dump truck. I sliced a wedge … Read more
The base of this dump cake is a 9×13 cake pan. The wheels are 4 mini-bundt cake pans. The “cab” is a mini loaf pan cut to shape. The bed of the truck is made of two 9×9 cake pans. One cut to make the sides. The “lift” is a cake mix box. The dump … Read more
This Construction Site Dumper Truck Cake is my second attempt at making a creative birthday cake, the first one was a Disney princess castle. I made this for my nephew’s first birthday and was told by my sister that the theme of the party was dumper trucks and diggers. So I started off thinking about … Read more
With a little boy who loves bulldozers and me keen to try cake making, this seemed to be the best way to do my first decorated bulldozer cake. I made a cake in a 27cm long loaf tin that had pretty straight sides. I then cut the top 1/3 of the cake off and placed … Read more
This dump truck cake was the second cake I have every made. It was more of a challenge than I thought it was going to be. I first made a homemade chocolate cake in a half sheet pan. I then cut out the shape of the truck free hand, and set a side the extra … Read more
We had a dump truck party for my sons 2nd birthday. I made his invitations in the shape of a dump truck and looked for construction cake ideas to do a construction cake the same way. I made 3 cake mixes and put each into their own 7×11 pan. I just used 2 marble cake … Read more
Other than running to the grocery store at 10:00 pm for more yellow food coloring this dump cake was fairly simple to make. You will need two 11 x 13 cakes and a fairly large (4 ft x 4 ft) piece of cardboard to assemble it on. Step 1: Cut out a section of one … Read more
I made this Tonka cake for my son’s 2nd birthday, it was a Tonka theme party. It is 2 13×9 cakes layered. I used the extra cake from when I leveled it for the dirt path and the dirt in the trucks. I found some trucks he had in his toy box and used them … Read more
My eldest son was mad about trucks generally, especially diggers and bulldozers, so my husband and I set about trying to make him a ‘digger’ cake for his 2nd birthday. The base was easy, I just made my favourite caramel chocolate mudcake recipe and put it into a large square tin. I bought an icing … Read more
This is a cake that I did for a one year old birthday. The mom had sticker of what she wanted the dump truck and smash cake to look like. Both cakes are frosted with butter cream frosting. For the Dump Truck, I baked 3 bread loaf pans. Cut in one in half, and stacked, … Read more
My nephew/godson turned one on June 3rd and since I gave his mom the idea of doing a construction site birthday theme & he is nicknamed tank, I figured it was only logical that I make him a Tonka truck. I used 3 sheet cakes for the main body parts, French Curlers dipped in chocolate … Read more