Take a look at these cool homemade Pick-Up 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!
For my son’s second birthday we decided to do a truck theme, since trucks are his absolute favorite thing in the world. I loved the idea of the farm/pick-up trucks with the pumpkins in the back, that I saw on this site, for an October birthday. I made two loaf pound cakes and froze them … Read more
BJ Baldwin, the world’s best off road racer had a birthday and a big race the same week, so I made this BJ’s Trophy Truck Cake for him. It’s my replica of his SCORE race series trophy truck. Fortunately he loved it. It’s all cake and fondant. The rocks are chocolate, the dirt is vanilla … Read more
My nephew loves his trucks so I carved from a three layer 9×13 cake this Pickup Truck Birthday Cake. A trip to the specialty candy store gave me chocolate covered Oreo’s for wheels, candy rocks, strips of gummy for lower paint trim, M&M’s for headlights, tail lights and of course one box of cocoa pebbles … Read more
I got this idea from an easy cake recipe on this website and added some details. Thanks for some great cake pictures to get me off and running! Prepared the cake a few days early and froze it so that it would cut easier. First I baked an 11×13 inch cake, cut it lengthwise and … Read more
I used a 9 x 11 pan to make the pickup truck cake. The wheels are chocolate frosted doughnuts! The headlights are a type toddler cookie and the “dirt” in the truck bed is chocolate sprinkles. This cake was so much fun to make and I did not need any special equipment.
I dont use a template for any of my cakes. I just have an easy cake recipe and carve them out while looking at a picture. The front ends of this truck, the wheels, the toolbox and the side view mirrors are made using rice crispy treats. I made the middle of the cake using … Read more
I used a loaf tin for the body of the pick up truck cake and two miniature tins for the top. I used licorice to decorate the windows and Oreo’s for the tires. I also used Oreo’s to put in the back of the truck. The icing was a butter icing which put one layer … Read more
I saw a truck cake on the internet and decided to modify it to suit my personal needs/tastes, in other words, to change it in to an easy cake recipe. Because my sons birthday is in October I was able to buy little pumpkin candies in bulk from my local grocery store to put into … Read more
This truck cake made from white cake mix. Frosting was a mixture of cool whip and Duncan Hines vanilla frosting mixed with strawberry syrup and dried coconut. The wheels were made from figs and almonds and chocolate chips used for car handles and lights. The truck road track was made from green mixture of herbs.
This cake was done for my nephews 2nd birthday. It was a construction party. The detail on the dump cake is all fondant. The “load” in the pickup truck is the crumbled trimmings of the cake.s 2nd birthday. It was a construction party. The detail on the dump cake is all fondant. The “load” in … Read more
well this truck cake was very easy. Boxed confetti cake for the ground and pound cake for the trucks. I dyed the pound cake blue since there were two boys and two trucks, they each had their own. Bought chocolate rocks for the decoration. I frosted the cake green then put the rocks on sides … Read more
It is fun to try new things; this was my sons fairly easy cake recipe last year. I just used two bread pans, gram crackers, and chocolate stick Oreo cookies for wheels. Cool whip and the rest of the Oreo for the back.s fairly easy cake recipe last year. I just used two bread pans, … Read more