First my husband made a stand for the cake to be lifted off the ground. It was a thin but stable piece of wood attached to four small blocks that were covered by the wheels of the truck. The dump cake it self was simply cake mix as I wanted to put more time into … Read more
I baked a sheet cake and covered it in white icing for this Homemade Handy Manny Birthday Cake. I traced Handy Manny out of a coloring book onto wax paper. I laid the wax paper down on the cake and used it as my guide to decorating Handy Manny. I read that you could use … Read more
We did a construction theme party for my son’s third birthday. I looked at a lot of different construction birthday cakes from the wonderful bakers on this site and came up with this one. I used rock candy along the road. 100 calorie candy cut in half for the white and black edging. I also … Read more
Unique Birthday Cakes for a Construction Theme Party 2
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
I honestly came up with the idea for this wrench cake out of the blue. Nov. 29 was my fiancee’s 24th birthday so him being a mechanic I wanted to do something special for him. I thought about just going to the store and buying him a cake, but I wanted this one to be … Read more
I made a dozer cake for my son’s school party and after a few people saw it, I got my first order. The hardest part was constructing the dozer and the sponge was crumbling because I prefer using a sponge cake for a good tasting cake. Everthing is edible on the cake, and the fondant … Read more
My son was approaching his 21st and said he would like a bulldozer cake. He works for Caterpillar as a heavy machinery mechanic, so I knew he would pay attention to detail. My daughter and I spent the morning with all sorts of machinery books, rectangular sponges, yellow icing and licorice covering our dining table. … Read more
I made this dump truck birthday cake as a smash cake for my God son’s first birthday! I had been looking at dump truck cakes online trying to find a recipe and some instructions I could follow. I never really found one that I fell in love with so I sketched out a blueprint for … Read more
I am very proud of how this Bull Dozer construction cake came out. I made two rectangular cakes and stacked them on top of each other and then angled the front to look like a dozer. The treads on this cake are extra cake frosted with chocolate icing. I used wedding pillars to form the … Read more
This dump cake was for my sons 1st birthday. His favorite toy was a yellow dump truck so that’s where the idea came from. I used a couple of Sara Lee frozen pound cakes and cut to shape. I had seen directions somewhere on how to cut the pieces but when the time came to … Read more
My son was in a Handy Manny phase when he turned 2, so the theme of the cake was easy. I shopped the web for ideas and came up with this version of Manny’s toolbox for my son’s cake. I baked a 10×15 inch cake (vanilla) for the bottom, which I cut to look like … Read more