Coolest Fire Truck Kids Cakes and Preparation Tips 5

For my sons second birthday I made a fire engine cake using several kids cakes ideas from this site as well as others. I started by baking a 9×13 in yellow sheet cake which I froze for a few hours to make cutting the various pieces a little easier. I then cut and stacked the … Read more

Coolest Homemade Fire Truck Cake Ideas 8

I made the fire truck cake using the Wilton Long Loaf pan. I cut about four inches off the end of the loaf and stacked it onto the other end matching up the rounded corners. I used red icing between the layers and let it stand for a few hours. I also added skewers to … Read more

Coolest Structure Fire Birthday Cake

Homemade Structure Fire Birthday Cake

I wanted to make my fire captain boyfriend something different for his birthday. I have made the fire truck and other fire department “significant others” made the other cakes that I found online. SOOOO… I got my creative juices flowing. For this homemade structure fire birthday cake I used homemade pound cake and homemade cream … Read more

Cool Firetruck Cake with Dutch Cocoa Cookie Wheels

Homemade Firetruck Cake

I modeled my Firetruck Cake after the coolest birthday cake #29 and used their design for inspiration. I made 3 9×13 cakes. The bottom and middle layer were cut in half vertically and measured about 6×8. I put one half in front of the other to make a ~6×16 firetruck bottom. I also cut the … Read more

Coolest Fire Truck Cake Design

Homemade Fire Truck Cake Design

We used three cake mixes– a chocolate and a vanilla stacked for the base and a vanilla cut in half and stacked upright for the front for this Homemade Fire Truck Cake Design, baked in standard 9 x 12 rectangular cake pans. We used sandwich cookies for the wheels, licorice for the hoses and dots … Read more

Cool Homemade Fire Truck Cake Design

Homemade Fire Truck Cake Design

This Fire Truck Cake Design is a birthday cake I did for my 16 year old nephew’s birthday. It is 3 layers of yellow cake with buttercream frosting. The “hoses” on the roof are black licorice, the “lights” are chewing gum and the dog, boots, hat and fire hydrant are candles. I did the windows … Read more

Coolest Fire Truck Kids Cakes and Preparation Tips 2

Thanks to everyone who posts kids cakes on this website. I was able to gather a number of ideas to make my sons cake work for us. My son just loved the thin red licorice hose and the ladder made with chocolate icing. The best part was using Wilton’s ready-to-use rolled fondant icing. I bought … Read more

Coolest Fire Truck Kids Cakes and Preparation Tips 6

This is one of those kids cakes thats easy to prepare! Using large loaf tins I baked two chocolate cakes. For this cake I used a Hershey’s chocolate cake recipe from their site. I placed the two loaf cakes end to end to form the body of the truck (cut off a couple of inches). … Read more

Coolest Homemade Fire Truck Cake Ideas 9

My son Joel is so fond of all types of vehicles so I decided to make a vehicle cake for his 2nd birthday. I searched a lot and found your site very interesting. He has a fire truck so I selected a fire truck cake to make since its familiar to him. I got lots … Read more

Coolest Fireman Helmet Cake

Fireman Helmet Cake

By making this Fireman helmet cake I bought a two pound tub of red fondant and used almost a full pound. I used boxed cake mix from the store for each layer but added an extra egg and spoon size scoop of sour cream to give it more body. You can bake the cake itself … Read more

Fire Truck Cake

Fire Truck Cake 27

My son insisted on a fire truck cake for his 3rd birthday. I found some ideas here, then figured out how to do it myself. I used one box of chocolate cake mix (with one extra egg and a teaspoon of vanilla to make it taste more homemade) to bake two loaf cakes. I cut … Read more