My son is your typical digger/truck/tractor mad kid and for his second birthday I decided to get creative and make him a cake reflecting that. I had a good look at all the cakes on this website and then ended up getting the idea from one of his t-shirts which had a 2-D picture of … Read more
I made this template for the dump cake on an 8.5″x11″ sheet of paper and I baked a 9x13in. cake for the body of the bulldozer and a 9x9in. square for the bucket and used the remaining batter for cupcakes. As I was making it I realized that my tracks were too small but it … Read more
I made this Handy Manny birthday cake for my son’s 3rd Birthday. For this cake I focused on the tools. My son got the Handy Manny Toolbox with tools for Christmas. I used the removable tools as my stencils for my cake. After cooling an 11×15 inch sheet cake, I iced the sides of the … Read more
I did a construction themed party for my sons 2nd birthday. A friend of mine lent me her cake tiers which worked out really well for holding the cake and cupcakes. I just used black and yellow streamers to wrap around the columns and black tissue paper around the base. For the dump cake I … Read more
I wanted to make a cake for my son’s 1st birthday and was inspired by the cute dump truck invitations I found for the party along with ideas from this website. I should mention that I’ve never decorated a cake before, unless you count watching chefs on TV! Honestly, this dump truck cake took some … Read more
I made this Excavator cake for my friend’s son’s 2nd B-Day….he loves “diggies”! The base of the machine is a 12×18 vanilla pound cake that I cut and carved into shape. I had a lot of help from my husband with the design after he informed me that me original drawing was “all wrong”! The … Read more
This dump truck construction cake was for my sons first birthday last week. He loves his toy dump truck so we used that theme. The cake turned out much bigger than I thought, it easily would have fed over 30 people. I started with 11×13 and 9×11 sheet cakes. I used a small box covered … Read more
I first want to explain that Michael Paul wanted a Scoop cake but his mother didnt want the face on it just the truck; therefore I made Scoop without a face. To make dump cake I used two regular sized loaf pans and four mini loaf pans. The body of the truck is the two … Read more
I made this dump cake for my sons birthday party. He loves cars and trucks. I made a rectangle sheet cake the day before the party and bought a cheap plastic construction set at Wal-Mart. I frosted the cake the morning of the party and placed the washed plastic pieces in place. I crushed vanilla … Read more
This dump truck was so much fun to make but time consuming too. I started by baking two 9×13″ cakes. Once cooled I cut out the shapes I needed and put the pieces together to resemble a dump truck. It took 2 tubs of icing to cover everything and that was the most time consuming … Read more
A friend of ours has a company of dump trucks. I was asked to commission a truck cake for their to be 13 year old son. His mother suggested a Homemade Double Dump Truck Cake and said that orange was his favorite color. After making the main truck and realizing it was rather small (they … Read more
For this construction cake I used three 9×13 cakes, graham crackers (whole and unbroken), and Wilton’s decorator frosting (yellow, light blue). Cut one of the 9×13 cakes in half so you have 2 short rectangles. Layer the two remaining cakes as you would any double layer cake. Then place one of the halves at the … Read more