My son loves tractors and construction trucks, so I did a little of both for his birthday. I made a construction birthday cake from a 11*13 white cake with a fresh strawberry buttercream inside. Finished it with a neoclassic buttercream. I used crushed Nilla wafers for the road and border and pile of dirt. I … Read more
I got all my ideas for the construction cake from the construction site down the street. I just got out of the car one day and started taking pictures and tried to recreate all the things I seen. The hard part was going to the store and finding candy that matched all the things on … Read more
I made this cake for my dads birthday. He is Mr. Fix-It. The tools were made from candy melts in tool molds. The cake is two 8″ square cakes set side by side and covered in fondant. The fondant is then airbrushed black. I colored strips of fondant brown to lay around the outside for … 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
For my son’s 3rd birthday he initially requested a crane cake. After doing a little research online I quickly realized that my cake making skills are not yet refined enough to make a cake hang in the air! I decided to persuade him to want a Homemade Bulldozer Birthday Cake. Once I did this I … Read more
This dump cake was made for a three year old that loves tractors. I wanted to make it extra special so I made it on lazy-Susan. I took the lazy-Susan apart and attached a square board instead of the round one that comes on it (very simple to do; only one screw). I also used … Read more
My neighbor’s son wanted a Handy Manny cake so I went ahead and attempted it. I think I did pretty well. He doesn’t look exactly like Handy Manny but close. I also attempted to do each tool in his toolbox and managed to accomplish it.
I made this Construction Site Birthday Cake for my grandson’s 4th birthday. To come up with the design, I Googled for photos of other construction site cakes, many from this wonderful website. I chose my favorite parts of several different cakes and put them altogether on my cake. The cake is 2 cake mixes in … Read more
My son is fascinated with heavy equipment. As a gift I bought him some Hot-Wheels sized equipment but before he could play with it we put it on his construction cake. The cake is actually completely made of ice cream. My three year old son usually leaves the cake and just eats the ice cream … Read more
This cake was for my father in law. The wood part is all cake and the saw is gumpaste. It’s a very easy cake to make.
This construction digger cake was requested by my daughter for her second birthday. My wife made two loaf-shaped, hot milk sponge cakes. One was cut in two for the ‘axels’ and the other rested across them for the ‘body’. The wheels were two large and two small ring doughnuts, coated in black icing. The two … Read more
My son was turning 3 and nothing suited him better than a Backhoe cake. I got my basic ideas from this site and went from there. I started by baking cakes- one in a large loaf pan and 2 in small loaf pans. I cut the end off the loaf pan cake to make the … Read more