Take a look at these cool homemade Monster Truck cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
When my nephew turned one, my sister-in-law asked me to make the cake. Since he loves trucks we decided on a monster truck. I started with 2 loaf cakes. I left one cake whole and cut a piece of the other one and placed in top to make the cab of the truck. I then … Read more
I got ideas for this Monster Truck Cake from many other cakes that I made in the past. I started one day with baking the cakes first for the base and for the truck. The base I cut in half and did a cream cheese, condensed milk and whipped cream filling inside as well as … Read more
Like many of you, my son is totally into monster trucks (Grave Digger and Big Foot 5 are his favorite). For his birthday, I wanted to do something special so I planned out the design of a monster truck cake a few weeks ago. This was only my second attempt at using fondant, and first … Read more
This Monster Truck Birthday Cake was my second attempt for a monster truck cake and this time it had to be GraveDigger. I did the bottom as a plain sheet cake. The monster truck was carved out of a plain vanilla loaf cake, covered with a skim of icing to seal the crumbs. I made … Read more
My son wanted a Monster Truck Birthday Cake. I baked a 9X13 cake and two loaf pans. I used the loaf pans to make the cab of the truck. A monster truck needs to sit up off the ground, so I put the cake on a cake board (cut to size) and under that I … Read more
My son wanted a monster truck birthday when he turned 5. So, of course, we had to have a monster truck cake for the occasion! I looked through the pictures on this site to get some ideas. I got some very helpful tips about using a platform and freezing the layer for the cab to … Read more
For this monster truck cake I used a 3D Cruiser cake pan. I elevated the platform to make it look like a monster truck. I used frosting to frost and Crueller donuts were used for wheels.
My son is allergic to dairy, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, sunflower, and coconut, so I couldn’t use the donut wheel method as shown in so many other monster truck cakes. I asked my husband to build me a 4-legged table approximately 4″ x 12.5″. We then attached two PVC pipes to the tabletop as “axles”- … Read more
My best friend Debbie and I made this monster truck cake for our loving Zack who is turning 12 this year. We used a car-shaped cake pan and put it on top of a 9×11 cake to make the monster truck. We also trimmed the car cake to give it more of a bed and … Read more
My son wanted a monster truck theme for his 5th birthday this year. Sadly, I had extreme trouble finding anything with Monster Trucks on it….believe it or not. I really thought this would be an easy theme but not so much! I ended up making my own invitations, party hats, and birthday shirt for the … Read more
A co-worker asked me to make her son a monster truck cake. I told her I would and since I had never made one before I thought I should make a “sample” cake. So I started by baking 2 cakes in loaf pans and carved them for the truck. I also baked a rectangular cake … Read more
It was my brother in law’s birthday and we decided to make him a birthday cake, he’s a lorry driver so this truck cake is what we decided to make. I started by making 3x square sandwich cakes and when they were cold I sandwiched two of them together with butter cream, then the other … Read more