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
Other than running to the grocery store at 10:00 pm for more yellow food coloring this dump cake was fairly simple to make. You will need two 11 x 13 cakes and a fairly large (4 ft x 4 ft) piece of cardboard to assemble it on. Step 1: Cut out a section of one … Read more
I made this Tonka cake for my son’s 2nd birthday, it was a Tonka theme party. It is 2 13×9 cakes layered. I used the extra cake from when I leveled it for the dirt path and the dirt in the trucks. I found some trucks he had in his toy box and used them … Read more
My eldest son was mad about trucks generally, especially diggers and bulldozers, so my husband and I set about trying to make him a ‘digger’ cake for his 2nd birthday. The base was easy, I just made my favourite caramel chocolate mudcake recipe and put it into a large square tin. I bought an icing … Read more
This is a cake that I did for a one year old birthday. The mom had sticker of what she wanted the dump truck and smash cake to look like. Both cakes are frosted with butter cream frosting. For the Dump Truck, I baked 3 bread loaf pans. Cut in one in half, and stacked, … Read more
My nephew/godson turned one on June 3rd and since I gave his mom the idea of doing a construction site birthday theme & he is nicknamed tank, I figured it was only logical that I make him a Tonka truck. I used 3 sheet cakes for the main body parts, French Curlers dipped in chocolate … Read more
My son announced he did not want a dump cake for his construction-themed 4th birthday party but a crane cake! And not only a crane but a crawler crane — not a truck crane. (No using of cookies or doughnuts for wheels!) Well I like a challenge. The crane arm is pieced together with Pepperidge … Read more
I made this Pumper Truck cake at my three year old’s request. Of all things, he wanted a pumper truck! I baked one 9″ x 13″ and two 8″ x 8″ cakes for the cab and flat bed. Once cooled, I stacked them, with icing between the layers, and wrapped the whole thing in plastic … Read more
My little boy had a “construction” party for his 5th birthday and I made him this excavator / Construction Digger Cake. I made chocolate fudge brownie cake as it is firmer than other cakes and built the basic shapes of the cab and the bulldozer part and covered it all in yellow coloured fondant icing … Read more
I got all my ideas for a dump truck cake from this web site. A little bit from each cake I saw. I cut out the shape of the truck and iced the brown first. Then the yellow. I used two donuts for each tire and cocoa puffs for the dirt. Very simple to do. … Read more
To make this construction cake, I started with a rectangular cake. I printed the image off on the computer, and placed it on to the cake. I carved around the paper to shape the cake. Then, I iced the Shrek cake using butter cream icing.
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