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 Homemade Handy Manny Birthday Cake for a little boy’s 2nd birthday. It is a yellow cake with buttercream frosting. Since I hate the taste of fondant, I used modeling chocolate to make the measuring tape border and the Handy Manny tools. The lines on the measuring tape were marked with a food … Read more
My son loves construction trucks, so I decided to make him a construction cake. I used butter cream frosting and the Wilton gel coloring to get the proper colors. The dirt pile was extra cake crumbles, the road was crushed graham cracker, the grass was coconut dyed with green food coloring, and the rocks and … Read more
Unique Birthday Cakes for a Construction Theme Party 6
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