This is my sons 1st birthday cake – a dump truck. I used 3 loaf pans and cut out the shape of the front of the truck in one and cut a hollow in the other for the dump and used the other to fill in and heighten it. To join it I used a … Read more
I made this Handy Manny cake for my son Jake’s 4th birthday. He is totally into building things and just loves Handy Manny . For this cake I used my biggest roasting dish to get the size of the cake that I needed and then printed the picture of Handy Manny from the net that … Read more
I made this construction site cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I had the party themed based on Construction Site. I made a basic chocolate cake with rich chocolate ganache filling and topped it with chocolate icing. I baked the cake at 5 in the morning. I let it rest for 5-6 hours and iced … Read more
I used a devils food cake mix and a yellow cake mix and made cupcakes out of both mixes. I arranged the cupcakes in a rectangle; one half devils food and the other yellow. I mixed up 3 batches of Wilton s buttercream frosting. I originally had planned to dye the icing brown for dirt … Read more
First I want to say thank you for all of the ideas of construction birthday cakes that I saw on this site! This construction zone cake was so easy to make. I used two 11″x15″ sheet cakes as the base. The icing was chocolate with a black icing road in the middle. I used sugar … Read more
A friend asked if I would design a cake for his wife’s birthday based on her nickname,”Puffy Bent Wrench”. Thankfully, I am married to a mechanic so between the two of us we came up with a suitable plan for this Wrench Birthday Cake Idea. The design consists of: the Wilton horseshoe pan and 2 … Read more
I created this Tonka Truck cake for my six year old’s birthday party last July. I got the idea from a birthday invitation my son received. I thought that it would make a cool cake so I free- handed it and added the Fun Zone, and the cupcake on the back of the truck.
Thanks to Yvonne E. I was able to start with a drawing template like she did. I am a construction worker as well as an artist. I knew I was going to make the best cake ever to my artistic ability. Then in the end I had one Blemish. Anyway, I like to thank Yvonne … Read more
I made this Crane Truck Birthday Cake Design for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loves mighty machines and of course picked one of the more complicated ones, a crane truck! I baked 2 9×13 cakes and then cut and stacked them into the shape of the truck. I made marshmallow fondant to cover and decorate … Read more
Next I cut a small chunk for the cab and adhered it to the top using icing. I left a one-inch gap and then adhered the third layer to the second layer with icing. For the top of the dump part I used the 8×8 square- trimming it down to a 7×6 size. When I … Read more
My son loves Handy Manny so for his 2 birthday we decided that would be the theme. My mom made the Handy Manny cake and cut it like the wood that Manny’s sign in the show is on. For the decorations on top I printed off Manny and all of his tools from the Disney … Read more
This Construction Zone Birthday Cake was made for my son’s 3rd birthday party. We own a construction company so I was familiar with equipment. We already owned most of this things and a few I picked up at Walmart. The cake was really big but it had to be that size to get the look … Read more