This tractor cake was for my two year old grandsons birthday and we didn’t need a huge cake so I baked a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting in a Pyrex loaf pan. It wouldn’t hold the entire recipe but I wanted it to be as tall as possible. I baked the remaining batter in … Read more
For this Dump Truck construction cake, I cut up two-pound cakes (just the pre-made kind in the freezer at the grocery store). I arranged the pieces to resemble a regular delivery truck, and then carved out the section of the back piece to make it the bed of a dump truck. I sliced a wedge … Read more
The base of this dump cake is a 9×13 cake pan. The wheels are 4 mini-bundt cake pans. The “cab” is a mini loaf pan cut to shape. The bed of the truck is made of two 9×9 cake pans. One cut to make the sides. The “lift” is a cake mix box. The dump … Read more
We had our sons birthday at a fire station and I decided I wanted something different. I decided to make a building on fire instead. The cake is a four-layer cake with butter cream icing (the size depends on the number of guests). I used colored fondant for the walls, door, windows and fire and … Read more
My son wanted an airplane cake for his 6 birthday. He specifically said he wanted a plane landing on the road made out of icing. So I baked a 11 x 15 cake. I put icing over the whole cake first then I took a toothpick to mark an air strip out with the large … Read more
My son loves fighter planes. So for his 3rd birthday we decorated with F-22s and F-16s. For his F16 airplane cake, I took his favorite plane and drew it out on some graph paper. This helped me get the dimensions right. I then took those dimensions and optimized it to cut out the correct pieces … Read more
A cake to play with! The whole scenery of the airport activity turned the birthday cake ceremony into an exciting board game for all the little ones who gathered around the table. It was a little bit hard for them, though, having to take apart the flying machine in order to try it out. Nevertheless, … Read more
This is a cake photo of my son’s first birthday cake. I made it myself using a 9×12 pan and a mix. Once the cake was baked, I cut diagonally down the middle so I would have 2 triangles to use as the sails. I made one slightly smaller than the other. I also made … Read more
These “cookies” are made from graham crackers – one square, with one rectangular (quarter of entire graham cracker) for front – stuck together with royal icing. Use royal icing tinted yellow and black decorator icing. The face is a Mento candy (not very diverse, but there may be other types of round candies in varying … 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 used two metal bowls to bake this cake in, and turned them upside down on top of each other. And used a small casserole dish to bake the grass in. I covered the grass with Fondant, and added some detail with buttercream icing and some tips. I covered the two halves of the carriage … Read more
I made this homemade Jeep trail birthday cake for my son’s 2nd birthday party. I thought of my plan of action by baking some cupcakes and arranging them out to make a jeep trail. I used a zip lock bag to pipe out the grass, green dyed sugar to coat some frosting to look like … Read more