I used a devils food cake mix and a yellow cake mix and made cupcakes out of both mixes. I arranged the cupcakes in a rectangle; one half devils food and the other yellow. I mixed up 3 batches of Wilton s buttercream frosting. I originally had planned to dye the icing brown for dirt … Read more
First I want to say thank you for all of the ideas of construction birthday cakes that I saw on this site! This construction zone cake was so easy to make. I used two 11″x15″ sheet cakes as the base. The icing was chocolate with a black icing road in the middle. I used sugar … Read more
This Construction Zone Birthday Cake was made for my son’s 3rd birthday party. We own a construction company so I was familiar with equipment. We already owned most of this things and a few I picked up at Walmart. The cake was really big but it had to be that size to get the look … Read more
This cake was for my sons fourth birthday party, he likes John Deere but we wanted a construction themed party. We couldn’t find any ideas besides a shaped dump truck so I designed this construction cake all by myself. The cake was very easy to do and fed over 35+ people. It took an 11×15 … Read more
This construction cake was made for my four year old sons birthday and technically our theme was “dirt” since he’s all boy! You will need a 12″ two layer, 8″ one layer and a 6″ two layer cake. Also you will need cake circles and dowel rods for stacking. I used chocolate sprinkles and Heath … Read more
My son loves anything to do with tractors (farming or construction). We have a lot of construction going on in the area that he gets a kick out of everytime we pass it. So I knew he would have a construction birthday party with a Construction Site Cake. I just made a yellow cake (from … Read more
This construction cake I made for my sons second birthday. He loves Bob the Builder so I ordered mini Bob the Builder characters online to put on top. Then I also found the construction signs and construction cone candles online. The cake is a classic yellow cake with a chocolate frosting. I used Crisco Canola … Read more
My son loved cars and trucks from early on so for his 1st birthday I decided to make him a construction cake. I made two sheet cakes from a store bought cake mixes. I used canned frosting and just added the food coloring to make the grass chocolate frosting for dirt and mixed white frosting … Read more
My son loves tractors and construction trucks, so I did a little of both for his birthday. I made a construction birthday cake from a 11*13 white cake with a fresh strawberry buttercream inside. Finished it with a neoclassic buttercream. I used crushed Nilla wafers for the road and border and pile of dirt. I … Read more
I got all my ideas for the construction cake from the construction site down the street. I just got out of the car one day and started taking pictures and tried to recreate all the things I seen. The hard part was going to the store and finding candy that matched all the things on … Read more
I made this Construction Site Birthday Cake for my grandson’s 4th birthday. To come up with the design, I Googled for photos of other construction site cakes, many from this wonderful website. I chose my favorite parts of several different cakes and put them altogether on my cake. The cake is 2 cake mixes in … Read more
My son is fascinated with heavy equipment. As a gift I bought him some Hot-Wheels sized equipment but before he could play with it we put it on his construction cake. The cake is actually completely made of ice cream. My three year old son usually leaves the cake and just eats the ice cream … Read more