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
This is one of those cake ideas that was inspired by a one year olds fascination with dump trucks. His Mom brought me the truck to copy and wanted to serve FIFTY people with the cake. It ended up being the same size as the original – as in the picture above! Materials: One each … Read more
I made this construction vehicle cake for our son’s second birthday. He loves everything to do with construction right now! It was fairly simple once I had all the components prepared. The base was a 9X13 2″ cake cut into an ‘H’ shape and covered with grey fondant for the tracks. The center was a … Read more
This Digger Cake Design is the coolest digger loader cake in the world. My little boy loves construction vehicles and asked for a digger loader cake. I could not find any idea on the net that impressed me, because most people bake a plain cake and decorate them with real toys. So this one came … Read more
After following the tips from some others online (namely the rice Krispy digging arm) I also added licorice straps and mini Oreos for the wheels. The green cake was a chocolate cake which I ‘dug’ into with a spoon to make it look like excavated earth when it was served up(not shown in photo). I … Read more
Bake chocolate cake and break into large pieces. Make chocolate pudding and spoon large pieces of cake and pudding into new clean dump truck. Its one of the easiest birthday cake ideas.s one of the easiest birthday cake ideas.
I made this bulldozer cake for my son’s 2nd birthday party. It was a hit. The cake consisted of 2 9×13 cakes stacked on top of each other. The blade and top portion of the cake is 2 loaf pans divided and shaped. The roll cab and blade lifters are made with pipe cleaners. The … Read more
My son announced that he would like “a digger cake” about 2 days before his birthday, and after much panic, frantic trawling of the internet and taking inspiration from the cakes on this site, I came up with this Construction Digger Cake. I had to use a small Lego ‘Scoop’ from Bob the Builder as … Read more
I was throwing my son a party for his 4th birthday for my 3 children and some friends, so as well as the clown cake -submitted, I made this Digger Cake also. I asked him what cake he wanted and he wasn’t bothered -he just wanted the party, so I thought I’ll try a 3d … Read more
We baked three cakes in three loaf pans and let them cool. For this dump cake we stacked two on top of each other to create the cab and cut the other in half and placed each half on top of the other for the cab. The windshield was then cut out. We applied the … Read more
I made this crane cake for my son’s first birthday. I got the idea from a Wilton cake year book. The crane is made out of the 3D train pan and we just cut off a few things to make it look like a crane. We used a plastic dowel and wrapped it in black … Read more