We live in a mining town and my son is obsessed with the haul pack trucks his dad fixes. I made this dump cake out of 3 23cm cakes. One cake I cut a little off one side to make it rectangular and that was the base piece. I used the next cake to create … Read more
My friend Megan and I made a bright yellow Tonka Truck Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday party. We made 4 white chocolate mud cakes in different tins for the different parts of the truck. We covered some cardboard shapes in foil to sit the truck onto. The wheels are two wagon wheels stuck together. … Read more
First of all, I am not a cake-maker! I watched my mom make cakes my whole life, but this is really my first cake! So, although I have observer knowledge, I have little experience. So this IS something YOU can do (if you have supplies)!! And I am very proud of myself. The terms I … Read more
This Homemade Dumptruck Birthday Cake Design couldn’t be more simple. I made it for my son’s 3rd birthday party at his daycare. I baked and froze a 9×11 chocolate cake. Once frozen I took it out and broke it apart into pieces and set them into the dumptruck box. I had some mini chocolate cupcakes … Read more
This is my sons 1st birthday cake – a dump truck. I used 3 loaf pans and cut out the shape of the front of the truck in one and cut a hollow in the other for the dump and used the other to fill in and heighten it. To join it I used a … Read more
I created this Tonka Truck cake for my six year old’s birthday party last July. I got the idea from a birthday invitation my son received. I thought that it would make a cool cake so I free- handed it and added the Fun Zone, and the cupcake on the back of the truck.
Thanks to Yvonne E. I was able to start with a drawing template like she did. I am a construction worker as well as an artist. I knew I was going to make the best cake ever to my artistic ability. Then in the end I had one Blemish. Anyway, I like to thank Yvonne … Read more
I made this Crane Truck Birthday Cake Design for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loves mighty machines and of course picked one of the more complicated ones, a crane truck! I baked 2 9×13 cakes and then cut and stacked them into the shape of the truck. I made marshmallow fondant to cover and decorate … Read more
Next I cut a small chunk for the cab and adhered it to the top using icing. I left a one-inch gap and then adhered the third layer to the second layer with icing. For the top of the dump part I used the 8×8 square- trimming it down to a 7×6 size. When I … Read more
For my son’s 2nd birthday, we decided to make a big yellow Tonka Truck Cake, as it was his current favourite toy. The sponge is a white choc mud cake, baked in a variety of tins to get the right types of shapes. We then iced in butter cream, and used a variety of available … Read more
Our 3yr old is obsessed with construction trucks, so I made him this Homemade Dump Truck Cake and then cut out dumptrucks from construction paper and attached them to sidewalk chalk buckets – added the bottom 1/3 of a paper lunchbag to the top of it and made them into goodie bags/buckets filled with treats. … Read more
The bottom portion of the Dump Truck Cake is 4 13×9” sheet cakes, layered with cookies and cream filling and topped with chocolate icing and Oreo and chocolate chip cookie crumbs. Orange cones are made from fondant and were allowed to dry. The dump truck is made of pound cake baked in two standard bread … Read more