I made this construction birthday cake for my grandson’s 2nd birthday. I started with a three tier mountain cake with a chocolate road leading to a one tier cake. To make the large construction cones I used ice cream cones covered with orange candy melts placed on chocolate covered graham crackers. All the lettering and signs … Read more
For 3 weeks leading up to my son’s birthday, all he could talk about was the Bob The Builder birthday cake that he was going to have. I searched high and low for Bob characters, toys and decorations to put on his cake. I couldn’t come up with anything. It was now the night before his … Read more
This Bob the Builder cake was made for a special little boy for his first birthday. I enjoy making cakes for friend’s and family. When I showed up at the party with Bob no one wanted to eat it, they all said it was to good to eat. The kids there loved it and told me … Read more
This is a Craftsman toolbox cake I did for my handyman Dad. It was inspired by a wrench and screwdriver cookie cutter set I found. I made some of those out of sugar cookies and placed them on and around the cake for decorations. The cake was chocolate sheet cakes that I cut into rectangles and stacked and … Read more
I got my inspiration for this construction cake from a friend who’d made a similar one. I just made a basic chocolate cake recipe and I used an online guide to cut the pieces of cake and join to make the ‘3’. “How to make number cakes” by H. Harris seems to be a popular one to … Read more
My son Tyler’s digger cake, that’s what he call’s it. Oh, he loves to dig. So my husband and I have been thinking about this cake for the last couple months, what are we going to do. We had bought the dump truck already, then two days before his birthday I had this idea, lets … Read more
My sister in law called me as my nephew’s birthday was approaching and asked me if I could combine his two favorite characters, Scoop the Dozer from Bob the Builder and Nemo, into a cake for his second birthday. I asked her to text to my phone a picture of Scoop, which she promptly did, and off … Read more
With some help from family I made these construction cakes for a 2 year old’s birthday party. They are all made from bread pans and I used funfetti cake. Everything about them is edible. Yes those are donuts with Oreo cookie rims on the loader! The loaders’ shovel is supported by cake in the dump … Read more
They were both simple Victoria Sponge cakes (eggs, vanilla sugar, margarine all the same weight then about 1oz extra SR Flour) with buttercream and lemon curd filling. On the first, smaller one I used fondant icing to cover the cake and make the digger shape – theres a great ‘how to draw a digger’ pattern … 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
Like most 3 year old’s, my son is crazy about construction equipment. His ultimate favorite is the Impact Hammer – or maybe it’s also called a Hydraulic hammer or something else. Either way it’s his favorite and when I asked him what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday it was the obvious answer! … Read more
I made this cake for my 3 yr old son. He has been wanting a bobcat cake for months. His daddy has taken him for many bobcat rides, so this was defiantly going to be his birthday theme! I baked a 9×13 size yellow cake and then cut the shape of a bobcat. I had … Read more