My son loved cars and trucks from early on so for his 1st birthday I decided to make him a construction cake. I made two sheet cakes from a store bought cake mixes. I used canned frosting and just added the food coloring to make the grass chocolate frosting for dirt and mixed white frosting … Read more
I made this bulldozer cake for my son’s 2nd birthday party. It was a hit. The cake consisted of 2 9×13 cakes stacked on top of each other. The blade and top portion of the cake is 2 loaf pans divided and shaped. The roll cab and blade lifters are made with pipe cleaners. The … Read more
My son announced that he would like “a digger cake” about 2 days before his birthday, and after much panic, frantic trawling of the internet and taking inspiration from the cakes on this site, I came up with this Construction Digger Cake. I had to use a small Lego ‘Scoop’ from Bob the Builder as … Read more
I was throwing my son a party for his 4th birthday for my 3 children and some friends, so as well as the clown cake -submitted, I made this Digger Cake also. I asked him what cake he wanted and he wasn’t bothered -he just wanted the party, so I thought I’ll try a 3d … Read more
We baked three cakes in three loaf pans and let them cool. For this dump cake we stacked two on top of each other to create the cab and cut the other in half and placed each half on top of the other for the cab. The windshield was then cut out. We applied the … Read more
This garden cake is a simple three layered chocolate cake in rounds. Prepare any standard cake mix that will make three layers. After cooling place on a sturdy plate or something that you can carry it on. This cake will get heavy. Frost the bottom layer with chocolate frosting sides and top. Crush Oreo cookies … Read more
My son loves tractors and construction trucks, so I did a little of both for his birthday. I made a construction birthday cake from a 11*13 white cake with a fresh strawberry buttercream inside. Finished it with a neoclassic buttercream. I used crushed Nilla wafers for the road and border and pile of dirt. I … Read more
I got all my ideas for the construction cake from the construction site down the street. I just got out of the car one day and started taking pictures and tried to recreate all the things I seen. The hard part was going to the store and finding candy that matched all the things on … Read more
I made this cake for my dads birthday. He is Mr. Fix-It. The tools were made from candy melts in tool molds. The cake is two 8″ square cakes set side by side and covered in fondant. The fondant is then airbrushed black. I colored strips of fondant brown to lay around the outside for … Read more
I made this crane cake for my son’s first birthday. I got the idea from a Wilton cake year book. The crane is made out of the 3D train pan and we just cut off a few things to make it look like a crane. We used a plastic dowel and wrapped it in black … Read more
For my son’s 3rd birthday he initially requested a crane cake. After doing a little research online I quickly realized that my cake making skills are not yet refined enough to make a cake hang in the air! I decided to persuade him to want a Homemade Bulldozer Birthday Cake. Once I did this I … Read more
This dump cake was made for a three year old that loves tractors. I wanted to make it extra special so I made it on lazy-Susan. I took the lazy-Susan apart and attached a square board instead of the round one that comes on it (very simple to do; only one screw). I also used … Read more