A coworker asked me to make a construction scene cake for her sons fourth birthday. I found this website for construction birthday cakes to be very helpful but it was my husband who came up with this idea. Supplies needed: chocolate buttercream icing, (visit the Wiltons website for recipes), buttercream icing tinted green and orange … Read more
I made this Construction Hard Hat Cake for one of my daycare kids. I used a large round for the bottom layer (cherry chip flavor), and a baking bowl and extra cake piece to make the hard hat. I used fondant to make the number 2 plack for the hat. My favorite part are the … 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
My son loves Handy Manny so for his 2nd birthday I thought I would tackle making a Handy Manny birthday cake for him. The first thing I did was look online for ideas. Once I had an idea of what I wanted I searched around and found clipart images of all of the characters that … Read more
This Construction Zone Birthday Cake was pretty easy! I used a star tip with green icing for grass, added fake trees and a couple of construction cars with some crushed Oreo’s for a dump site and wrapped the edges in caution tape. Big hit! The cake was a 1/2 sheet pan size.
I used yellow and black gel for the construction zone stripes and cookie crumbs for the sand/dirt. You can add beige/white/brown M&Ms for rock piles etc. Very fun cake to make! Enjoyed by all!s for rock piles etc. Very fun cake to make! Enjoyed by all!
I made this a few days ago for my sons third birthday party. This was my first time actually decorating a cake and it turned out great. I used two cake mixes (butter and devil’s food) and baked them in the same pan. I got the idea from other construction birthday cakes on this website. … Read more
This Construction Tools Birthday Cake is made of half yellow, half chocolate cake mixes in a half sheet cake size baking pan. I drew the saw and the tape measure free hand. I took an actual hammer and traced it to create a template and then I cut it out of the cake. All the … Read more