Our 3yr old is obsessed with construction trucks, so I made him this Homemade Dump Truck Cake and then cut out dumptrucks from construction paper and attached them to sidewalk chalk buckets – added the bottom 1/3 of a paper lunchbag to the top of it and made them into goodie bags/buckets filled with treats. … Read more
The bottom portion of the Dump Truck Cake is 4 13×9” sheet cakes, layered with cookies and cream filling and topped with chocolate icing and Oreo and chocolate chip cookie crumbs. Orange cones are made from fondant and were allowed to dry. The dump truck is made of pound cake baked in two standard bread … Read more
This is one of those cake ideas that was inspired by a one year olds fascination with dump trucks. His Mom brought me the truck to copy and wanted to serve FIFTY people with the cake. It ended up being the same size as the original – as in the picture above! Materials: One each … Read more
My son really loves Felipe on Handy Manny so I decided to give it a try. Since there aren’t any molds for this, I made a 13×9 cake and cut out a rounded rectangle for the top and a narrower rectangle for the bottom of the screwdriver. I just used gel and liquid food coloring … 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
This construction cake I made for my sons second birthday. He loves Bob the Builder so I ordered mini Bob the Builder characters online to put on top. Then I also found the construction signs and construction cone candles online. The cake is a classic yellow cake with a chocolate frosting. I used Crisco Canola … Read more
My son Jude absolutely loves loves loves HAMMERS, so for his 4th birthday I surprised him by making him a hammer birthday cake. I used homemade cake, butter cream, and fondant and used a Black and Decker toy hammer as a guide. It was a lot of fun and he was definitely surprised. I used … Read more
I made this construction vehicle cake for our son’s second birthday. He loves everything to do with construction right now! It was fairly simple once I had all the components prepared. The base was a 9X13 2″ cake cut into an ‘H’ shape and covered with grey fondant for the tracks. The center was a … Read more
This Digger Cake Design is the coolest digger loader cake in the world. My little boy loves construction vehicles and asked for a digger loader cake. I could not find any idea on the net that impressed me, because most people bake a plain cake and decorate them with real toys. So this one came … Read more
After following the tips from some others online (namely the rice Krispy digging arm) I also added licorice straps and mini Oreos for the wheels. The green cake was a chocolate cake which I ‘dug’ into with a spoon to make it look like excavated earth when it was served up(not shown in photo). I … Read more
Bake chocolate cake and break into large pieces. Make chocolate pudding and spoon large pieces of cake and pudding into new clean dump truck. Its one of the easiest birthday cake ideas.s one of the easiest birthday cake ideas.
I created this Handy Manny cake for my son’s 1st birthday and his favorite cartoon is Hanny Manny. This was my first attempt decorating a cake myself. I really enjoyed it and plan on creating many more for many occasions.