This construction digger cake was requested by my daughter for her second birthday. My wife made two loaf-shaped, hot milk sponge cakes. One was cut in two for the ‘axels’ and the other rested across them for the ‘body’. The wheels were two large and two small ring doughnuts, coated in black icing. The two … Read more
My son was turning 3 and nothing suited him better than a Backhoe cake. I got my basic ideas from this site and went from there. I started by baking cakes- one in a large loaf pan and 2 in small loaf pans. I cut the end off the loaf pan cake to make the … Read more
We built a dump cake for my sons second birthday. Bought a chocolate cake mix and made it in a loaf pan for the shape. (Cheated and also bought a Swiss roll). Cut the loaf pan cake short for the correct shape. Cut the Swiss roll in half lengthways to make the front end scoop … Read more
For my son’s third birthday he wanted a construction party, complete with a bulldozer cake. Having never really created anything other than simple cakes with “Happy Birthday” spelled out on top, I was determined to make it myself and utterly unsure how I was supposed to create such a request. He did not want Bob … Read more
My son is your typical digger/truck/tractor mad kid and for his second birthday I decided to get creative and make him a cake reflecting that. I had a good look at all the cakes on this website and then ended up getting the idea from one of his t-shirts which had a 2-D picture of … Read more
I made this template for the dump cake on an 8.5″x11″ sheet of paper and I baked a 9x13in. cake for the body of the bulldozer and a 9x9in. square for the bucket and used the remaining batter for cupcakes. As I was making it I realized that my tracks were too small but it … Read more
I wanted to make a cake for my son’s 1st birthday and was inspired by the cute dump truck invitations I found for the party along with ideas from this website. I should mention that I’ve never decorated a cake before, unless you count watching chefs on TV! Honestly, this dump truck cake took some … Read more
I made this Excavator cake for my friend’s son’s 2nd B-Day….he loves “diggies”! The base of the machine is a 12×18 vanilla pound cake that I cut and carved into shape. I had a lot of help from my husband with the design after he informed me that me original drawing was “all wrong”! The … Read more
This dump truck construction cake was for my sons first birthday last week. He loves his toy dump truck so we used that theme. The cake turned out much bigger than I thought, it easily would have fed over 30 people. I started with 11×13 and 9×11 sheet cakes. I used a small box covered … Read more
I first want to explain that Michael Paul wanted a Scoop cake but his mother didnt want the face on it just the truck; therefore I made Scoop without a face. To make dump cake I used two regular sized loaf pans and four mini loaf pans. The body of the truck is the two … Read more
This dump truck was so much fun to make but time consuming too. I started by baking two 9×13″ cakes. Once cooled I cut out the shapes I needed and put the pieces together to resemble a dump truck. It took 2 tubs of icing to cover everything and that was the most time consuming … Read more
A friend of ours has a company of dump trucks. I was asked to commission a truck cake for their to be 13 year old son. His mother suggested a Homemade Double Dump Truck Cake and said that orange was his favorite color. After making the main truck and realizing it was rather small (they … Read more