I made this dump truck birthday cake as a smash cake for my God son’s first birthday! I had been looking at dump truck cakes online trying to find a recipe and some instructions I could follow. I never really found one that I fell in love with so I sketched out a blueprint for … Read more
I am very proud of how this Bull Dozer construction cake came out. I made two rectangular cakes and stacked them on top of each other and then angled the front to look like a dozer. The treads on this cake are extra cake frosted with chocolate icing. I used wedding pillars to form the … Read more
This dump cake was for my sons 1st birthday. His favorite toy was a yellow dump truck so that’s where the idea came from. I used a couple of Sara Lee frozen pound cakes and cut to shape. I had seen directions somewhere on how to cut the pieces but when the time came to … Read more
I made this Construction birthday cake for a four year old friend of mine. The base cake, which formed the construction site, was a yellow cake and the dump truck was a pound cake.
I made this bulldozer cake for my son’s first birthday. It was made out of 2 loaf tins (large and medium) and a 24cm square cake. I used 4 Green’s buttercake packet mixes. To construct it I used the large loaf cake for the body of the bulldozer, cut the medium loaf as the cab … Read more
I made this Dump Truck Birthday Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I got the idea from a Wilton Fondant Yearbook. We used blue and grey to match my husband’s flat bed truck. To make the truck I covered a Styrofoam block with foil to raise the cake. For the truck body, I baked chocolate … 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
This Construction Site Dumper Truck Cake is my second attempt at making a creative birthday cake, the first one was a Disney princess castle. I made this for my nephew’s first birthday and was told by my sister that the theme of the party was dumper trucks and diggers. So I started off thinking about … Read more
With a little boy who loves bulldozers and me keen to try cake making, this seemed to be the best way to do my first decorated bulldozer cake. I made a cake in a 27cm long loaf tin that had pretty straight sides. I then cut the top 1/3 of the cake off and placed … Read more
This dump truck cake was the second cake I have every made. It was more of a challenge than I thought it was going to be. I first made a homemade chocolate cake in a half sheet pan. I then cut out the shape of the truck free hand, and set a side the extra … Read more
We had a dump truck party for my sons 2nd birthday. I made his invitations in the shape of a dump truck and looked for construction cake ideas to do a construction cake the same way. I made 3 cake mixes and put each into their own 7×11 pan. I just used 2 marble cake … Read more