I made this construction site cake for my son’s fourth birthday. We designed it together after I perused many, many pictures of construction site cakes. The trucks and workers were purchased as a set by Wilton. The base cake was a 9×13 chocolate cake. I cut a small hole out and used that piece and … Read more
For the icing for the construction cake I tinted butter cream frosting brown and iced the cake and hill. I used some blue frosting to make a small pond and covered that in blue gel to make it look more water-like. I took some black frosting and made a small blacktop road on the construction … Read more
My friends son was turning 3 and they were having a Construction party for him. I purchased a construction vehicle play set (which also served as part of his birthday present) to make a “work site.” After washing the individual pieces I attached pieces of lollipop sticks to the bottoms with royal icing to serve … Read more
This constructions site cake was done for my son’s 5th birthday, his current interest being big trucks and construction equipment. I started with a half sheet cake (Wilton 1/2 sheet pan) and baked a half chocolate, half white cake mix. Using regular white buttercream icing I frosted the entire cake, making some landscape details like … Read more
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This is the first time I ever did create something like this. My inspiration to do this was my son and also being sick of overpriced chintzy store bought cakes. My 4-year-old wanted his favorite construction trucks featured on his birthday cake. I made a 2-layer cake, (9X13 pans) and trimmed before icing it. I … Read more
My son loves construction trucks, so I decided to make him a construction cake. I used butter cream frosting and the Wilton gel coloring to get the proper colors. The dirt pile was extra cake crumbles, the road was crushed graham cracker, the grass was coconut dyed with green food coloring, and the rocks and … Read more
I used yellow and black gel for the construction zone stripes and cookie crumbs for the sand/dirt. You can add beige/white/brown M&Ms for rock piles etc. Very fun cake to make! Enjoyed by all!s for rock piles etc. Very fun cake to make! Enjoyed by all!
For this construction cake, I baked a chocolate sheet cake (any recipe that you like). After it cooled I froze it to make it easier to ice. Once it was frozen I iced it with white buttercream icing. I created a pond using blue Jello Jigglers. I just cut out a pond shape from the … Read more
This Construction Zone Birthday Cake was pretty easy! I used a star tip with green icing for grass, added fake trees and a couple of construction cars with some crushed Oreo’s for a dump site and wrapped the edges in caution tape. Big hit! The cake was a 1/2 sheet pan size.
I started with a large sheet pan and I used 2 cake mixes total to fill the pan.I iced the cake with buttercream frosting, tinted a slightly beige color. I did my lettering and borders using yellow and black icing (I use Wilton paste colors). The lettering was yellow with a thinner black line on … Read more
I made this Construction Zone cake for my sons third birthday. He was (and still is!) very much into all things construction. I found lots of ideas on this website for construction birthday cakes and took a few ideas from several cakes and came up with my own design. It’s made with an 11×13 rectangular … Read more
I made this construction site cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I had the party themed based on Construction Site. I made a basic chocolate cake with rich chocolate ganache filling and topped it with chocolate icing. I baked the cake at 5 in the morning. I let it rest for 5-6 hours and iced … Read more
This was a chocolate cake for my sons 2nd birthday. He loves cars and trucks! I went to a party store and purchased mini trucks and cars and arranged them on the top of cake. I used brown sugar to make a “dirt pile” and trimmed with M&Ms his other favorite thing. He really loved … Read more
For my sons first birthday we decided on a construction theme (my husband works construction and since my son loves trucks and such we thought it was perfect!). We actually used some of the ideas from this site for construction birthday cakes to construct our cake and finalize our ideas (thank you!). I started by … Read more
This Construction Zone Birthday Cake was made for my son’s 3rd birthday party. We own a construction company so I was familiar with equipment. We already owned most of this things and a few I picked up at Walmart. The cake was really big but it had to be that size to get the look … Read more
For my sons fourth birthday he wanted a construction party. I searched the internet for cake ideas and finally put this one together using many different cake ideas I found. I used a plain yellow cake and iced it with chocolate frosting. I dug a small hole out and filled it with M&M boulders. I … Read more
A coworker asked me to make a construction scene cake for her sons fourth birthday. I found this website for construction birthday cakes to be very helpful but it was my husband who came up with this idea. Supplies needed: chocolate buttercream icing, (visit the Wiltons website for recipes), buttercream icing tinted green and orange … Read more
My son loves anything to do with tractors (farming or construction). We have a lot of construction going on in the area that he gets a kick out of everytime we pass it. So I knew he would have a construction birthday party with a Construction Site Cake. I just made a yellow cake (from … Read more
I used a devils food cake mix and a yellow cake mix and made cupcakes out of both mixes. I arranged the cupcakes in a rectangle; one half devils food and the other yellow. I mixed up 3 batches of Wilton s buttercream frosting. I originally had planned to dye the icing brown for dirt … Read more
I made this a few days ago for my sons third birthday party. This was my first time actually decorating a cake and it turned out great. I used two cake mixes (butter and devil’s food) and baked them in the same pan. I got the idea from other construction birthday cakes on this website. … Read more
This special construction birthday cake was created for my nephew’s first birthday. It is a two layer half sheet and a two layer 6-inch round white cake with strawberry and banana filling decorated with fondant. The roads were lined with piped butter cream grass. Two holes were carved into the top layer of the sheet … Read more
After having three girls and finally getting a boy we sure did have fun making this construction cake! Pretty simple, just a regular cake with a play construction set. We used chocolate chips for the dirt. I put a plain white paper table cloth down and had his sisters and cousins draw a town for … Read more
First I want to say thank you for all of the ideas of construction birthday cakes that I saw on this site! This construction zone cake was so easy to make. I used two 11″x15″ sheet cakes as the base. The icing was chocolate with a black icing road in the middle. I used sugar … Read more