They were both simple Victoria Sponge cakes (eggs, vanilla sugar, margarine all the same weight then about 1oz extra SR Flour) with buttercream and lemon curd filling. On the first, smaller one I used fondant icing to cover the cake and make the digger shape – theres a great ‘how to draw a digger’ pattern … Read more
My friends son was turning 3 and they were having a Construction party for him. I purchased a construction vehicle play set (which also served as part of his birthday present) to make a “work site.” After washing the individual pieces I attached pieces of lollipop sticks to the bottoms with royal icing to serve … Read more
We did a construction theme party for my son’s third birthday. I looked at a lot of different construction birthday cakes from the wonderful bakers on this site and came up with this one. I used rock candy along the road. 100 calorie candy cut in half for the white and black edging. I also … Read more
Unique Birthday Cakes for a Construction Theme Party 2
This is the first time I ever did create something like this. My inspiration to do this was my son and also being sick of overpriced chintzy store bought cakes. My 4-year-old wanted his favorite construction trucks featured on his birthday cake. I made a 2-layer cake, (9X13 pans) and trimmed before icing it. I … Read more
This construction scene cake was done for my son’s 1st birthday. It was very easy. I just made a sheet cake and iced it brown. It has been awhile but I think I used crumbled cookie for the dirt. I even dug a hole in the cake where I put the backhoe. I bought the … Read more
Unique Birthday Cakes for a Construction Theme Party 3
For this construction cake, I baked a chocolate sheet cake (any recipe that you like). After it cooled I froze it to make it easier to ice. Once it was frozen I iced it with white buttercream icing. I created a pond using blue Jello Jigglers. I just cut out a pond shape from the … Read more
I made this construction site cake for my son’s fourth birthday. We designed it together after I perused many, many pictures of construction site cakes. The trucks and workers were purchased as a set by Wilton. The base cake was a 9×13 chocolate cake. I cut a small hole out and used that piece and … Read more
His dad sent me a photo of the birthday boy all dressed up in his construction costume so I added him to the construction site as the foreman. I made “sand pile” and a “top soil pile” in the back corners using the mini wonder mold pan for the mounds. I iced them with butter … Read more
I made this Construction Zone cake for my sons third birthday. He was (and still is!) very much into all things construction. I found lots of ideas on this website for construction birthday cakes and took a few ideas from several cakes and came up with my own design. It’s made with an 11×13 rectangular … Read more
This constructions site cake was done for my son’s 5th birthday, his current interest being big trucks and construction equipment. I started with a half sheet cake (Wilton 1/2 sheet pan) and baked a half chocolate, half white cake mix. Using regular white buttercream icing I frosted the entire cake, making some landscape details like … Read more