After searching the internet for a tractor cake to surprise my soon-to-be-three year old son my mother showed up with a Wilton pan. (Whew one step easier!) I didnt start baking this until 8:00 pm. I made the tractor of chocolate and the rebuilt-rectangle-cake wagon of vanilla. The family is large and each has their … Read more
My idea for a Homemade 3D John Deere Tractor Cake started out with thinking that I would use a tractor loaf pan and then add a three dimension to the wheel on the back. However, the more I thought about it, the more I wanted it to stand up completely and really have a 3D … Read more
My husband and I made this Tractor Cake with Driver in 3 steps. 1) Bake the cakes – 1 13×9 cake and 2 standard round cake tins. 2) Refrigerate the cooled cakes for at least 6 hours. 3) Cut and shape. My husband made a template using a John Deere catalog, and cut the template … Read more
My Dad John, collects tractors, toy and real. They are his life. I was asked to create a John Deere Tractor cake for his 71st birthday. I included my memory of him and I as a child with him on the tractor. I used gumpaste, fondant, buttercream with a yellow cake dyed green and yellow … Read more
The little boy that I baby-sit wanted a John Deere tractor cake, but I was having trouble finding a picture of one and I didnt want to buy the expensive tractor cake pan for a one time cake. So, I came up with this cake. I used 3 small loaf pans. I cut two to … Read more
For this John Deere tractor cake we used 2 loaf sized pans for the cakes and stood one up on its end. We took the part that we had leveled off for the windshield and cut the other loaf in half and attached it to the loaf that is standing on end. We also made … Read more
After doing a Google search for ‘Tractor Cake’ I came across this site and got some fantastic inspiration for our son’s 1st birthday. Being farmers I really wanted to do a tractor but wasn’t sure how to go about it so the ideas I got from this site were so helpful. We have an actual … Read more
I made this Tractor and Field Birthday Cake by using a basic sponge recipe. The field was 5 eggs, 315g self raising flour, caster sugar and margarine and 155g plain flour and using a 12″ by 8″ cake tin. The tractor was 3 eggs, 175g self raising flour, caster sugar and margarine and using a … Read more
I frosted the John Deere Tractor Birthday Cake with Wilton’s whipped icing (my favorite). Then I traced the tractor into the icing with a toothpick. I found this tractor from online coloring pages. Then I piped the outline of the tractor with black icing using a writing tip. Then I filled in the colors. I … Read more
I made this John Deere cake for my nephew. It was so much fun. It’s a regular sheet cake with butter cream icing. I purchased the tractor and barn, and the possibilities were endless. On a yellow base I made a muddy road (brown tinted icing with black dye on a toothpick to make strokes), … Read more
I used the cake mix in the box and followed the directions. I used the John Deer Tractor cake pan and 13X 9 for the crop rows. The icing is the Wilton Butter Cream recipe and I used green, black, and yellow gel to get my colors. The brown is just the chocolate butter cream … Read more
I baked two loaf cakes, and bought some chocolate covered donuts in two sizes. I sawed off the tops of the loaves (the rounded parts) with a serrated knife, and used one loaf for the base of the tractor cake. I then cut about a third into the next loaf (with a slanted cut) and … Read more