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
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
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
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
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
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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
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 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!
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
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
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