My nephew is really into cars and trucks, so I decided to make him a dump truck cake for his birthday. I used the Wilton’s Dump Truck Pan. Since it was a small cake I decided to make it a 2 layer cake. I made two cakes in the same pan and iced them together. … Read more
My son’s favorite truck was his orange garbage truck. So for his 2nd birthday I’ve decided to make a replica of the truck. I’ve covered the garbage truck cake with fondant and made the details with tubed red icing. I used Oreo cookies for the wheels and black licorice for the chimneys, and it is … Read more
My son LOVES all things garbage so I decided he needed a garbage truck themed 3rd birthday. I made a Garbage Truck Birthday Cake from a single-layer 9×13 cake, cut out a small chunk at the top left, and eased the top right corner to make the shape of a garbage truck. I also cut … Read more
My son LOVES garbage trucks, so I naturally decided to make a Homemade Garbage Truck Birthday Cake for his 2nd birthday. I really wanted a 3-dimensional cake and was surprised that I could not find specific instructions for one online. I drew much of my inspiration for this cake from other cakes on this site … Read more
I made this Garbage Truck Birthday Cake for a friend of mine who is a garbage man. I searched EVERYWHERE for an orange toy garbage truck because the town he works in has Orange garbage trucks. I wanted it to look authentic. The truck even made real garbage truck noises. I also purchased a mini … Read more
I used a box cake and added crushed Oreos for this garbage truck. My four year old son loves garbage trucks and asked for a garbage truck cake. I used cookie cutters for the wheels, frosted them and then put them into place. I used my sons toy as a garbage man and crushed Oreos, … Read more
Our son LOVES the garbage truck so we decided to have a trash party for his third birthday!! My husband cut the cake out form one 9×13 square cake pan and two 9″ circle pans. He pieced it together and iced with store bought icing. It was so much fun creating this garbage truck cake!
My son loves garbage trucks, so I had to make him a garbage truck cake. I started off with a half sheet pan for my cake. I just used store cake mix, baked it then cut it into a rectangle ( the bed of the truck ) and then made the cab another square. I … Read more
I used two 9×13 chocolate cakes, one for the body and the other for the wheels of this garbage truck cake. Froze the cake and then cut in the shape of the garbage truck to match the birthday invitation. Frosted the entire cake with a thin layer of icing. Froze cake again, then used green … Read more
My son has been into garbage trucks for sometime and when I asked what sort of cake he wanted for his 3rd birthday, sure enough he said a garbage truck birthday cake. I thought I’d better try and although it took me quite a few hours to decorate I was very pleased with the outcome. … Read more
For my son who was obsessed with garbage trucks I made this Garbage Truck Cake. I had a hard time finding any online so I ended up making two pound cakes in bread pans , cut and stacked them. Most are squares or rectangles and I set it up on two rectangles to attach the … Read more
My son is obsessed with garbage trucks so it was only appropriate for him to have a garbage truck birthday cake for his birthday. After discovering that it was difficult to get one made for a reasonable price I decided to attempt one myself. I actually love to cook, but never-ever bake so I was … Read more
My 4 year old asked for a Garbage Truck Birthday Party this year. I’ve always wanted to do a 3-D cake and this turned out to be the perfect opportunity with this Garbage Truck Birthday Cake. This was also my first time working with fondant – I was pretty anxious about it, but it ended … Read more