Take a look at these cool homemade Semi Trailer 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!
Even though this is a kids cake, I made it for my dads 60th, a copy of his truck. I made two loaf pans of vanilla cake for the truck and a baked a round cylinder cake for the trailer/tanker (I think it was nut loaf tin and baked standing up). I then cut the … Read more
This was the hardest cake I ever attempted. Both in time and in challenges. I’ve been making cakes for friends, family and charity for many years, and when my friend came to me with a picture of a semi truck that his mom started out driving I was a bit hesitant as I know nothing … Read more
My 4 year old son thought it was the coolest Optimus Prime cake ever! This cake was born out of pure frustration of having to always pay a fortune for pretty but tasteless cakes that need a year supply of coffee to flush it past the gag reflex to try and swallow and eventually after … Read more
Someone who I’d make a cake for previously was really pleased with the outcome that she asked me again but this time she wanted a large lorry cake. I’d made a lorry cake before but a lot smaller and it didn’t turn out that well to be fair. I thought it’d been in an accident, … Read more
The tank is a chocolate roll cake with marshmallow cream filling. We added 2 cherry Twizzlers on the top, and rolled in fondant. The truck is made of 2 loaf size cakes and cut to desired size. They are covered in chocolate icing. The wheels are fudge covered Oreos. I used white icing to make … Read more
I made this kids cake using a Wilton long cake pan. Instead of having it right on the tinfoil, I put it up on a box the same length as the cake itself. I tinted the frosting and used Twizzlers, Skittles and Oreos for the wheels.
Jordan’s dad is a truck driver for a grass company so his mom wanted this cake for his 2nd birthday. We used pound cake for the cab, covered it in butter cream icing and then rolled fondant. For the lights on top we used candy corns which we cut the orange part off of. For … Read more
First of all, thanks to the other kids cake enthusiasts who submitted their masterpieces – they totally inspired me! I used one 9 x 13″ Chocolate Cake (Cake Mix) cut the long way, filled with buttercream frosting (homemade) and layered. The double-layered cake piece was frosted with blue tinted buttercream frosting. I also used one … Read more
This cake was for my nephew’s third birthday. He loves trucks, so I decided to make him a homemade Hess truck birthday cake. I baked a 13 X 9 sheet cake, cut and stacked it. I iced the layers and outside with butter-cream. I made the wheels out of fondant that I dyed black and … Read more
This cake was made out of a loaf pan and cut / trimmed to look like the front of a truck. Small Oreos were used as the wheels, toothpicks were covered with frosting to look like smokestacks.
This Semi Trailer Birthday Cake was a cake my husband and I did for my father-in-law’s birthday. We used 6 loaf pans, 4 for the trailer and 2 for the cab and cut the cab to the desired shape. I then iced the cake with homemade buttercream icing, added pretzel sticks for the smoke stacks … Read more
This Peterbilt Potbelly Livestock Truck Cake was my first fondant cake that I made for my nephew Trevor on his 7th birthday. It was going to be a surprise to him as to what the cake would be, but we knew it had to be this Peterbilt- he “LOVES” it. The cake was a challenge … Read more