Cute Homemade Handy Manny Birthday Cake for my Grandson
I got a lot of ideas for my grandson Brayden’s 2nd Handy Manny Birthday Cake from this site. Thank you to all who always share such great ideas.
I got a lot of ideas for my grandson Brayden’s 2nd Handy Manny Birthday Cake from this site. Thank you to all who always share such great ideas.
I made this construction site cake for my son’s fourth birthday. We designed it together after I perused many, many pictures of construction site cakes. The trucks and workers were purchased as a set by Wilton. The base cake was a 9×13 chocolate cake. I cut a small hole out and used that piece and … Read more
His dad sent me a photo of the birthday boy all dressed up in his construction costume so I added him to the construction site as the foreman. I made “sand pile” and a “top soil pile” in the back corners using the mini wonder mold pan for the mounds. I iced them with butter … Read more
I made this Construction Zone cake for my sons third birthday. He was (and still is!) very much into all things construction. I found lots of ideas on this website for construction birthday cakes and took a few ideas from several cakes and came up with my own design. It’s made with an 11×13 rectangular … Read more
I made this Carpenter Birthday Cake for my father-in-law Ken who is a master carpenter. I baked a home made 2 layer, 12 inch chocolate cake and filled with chocolate fudge butter cream frosting. I then frosted the entire cake with white butter cream frosting. The tools are made from a chocolate chip bar, which … 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
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 my son’s two tier cake from white and chocolate cake and marshmallow fondant. The marshmallow fondant actually tasted better than the regular store bought stuff. I carved out the middle and added jam to each layer also. I then covered the bottom layer in the fondant and then added the second layer and … Read more
This constructions site cake was done for my son’s 5th birthday, his current interest being big trucks and construction equipment. I started with a half sheet cake (Wilton 1/2 sheet pan) and baked a half chocolate, half white cake mix. Using regular white buttercream icing I frosted the entire cake, making some landscape details like … Read more