For this construction cake, I baked a chocolate sheet cake (any recipe that you like). After it cooled I froze it to make it easier to ice. Once it was frozen I iced it with white buttercream icing. I created a pond using blue Jello Jigglers. I just cut out a pond shape from the … Read more
This Handyman cake is a 20cm butter cake I made for a little boy turning 3. I also had to make another cake (under the sea) for his twin brother! The icing is buttercream and the bricks, sign, tape measure and nails are fondant. The tools are made from white and dark chocolate. When making … Read more
I made this Construction birthday cake for a four year old friend of mine. The base cake, which formed the construction site, was a yellow cake and the dump truck was a pound cake.
I made this bulldozer cake for my son’s first birthday. It was made out of 2 loaf tins (large and medium) and a 24cm square cake. I used 4 Green’s buttercake packet mixes. To construct it I used the large loaf cake for the body of the bulldozer, cut the medium loaf as the cab … Read more
I made this Dump Truck Birthday Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I got the idea from a Wilton Fondant Yearbook. We used blue and grey to match my husband’s flat bed truck. To make the truck I covered a Styrofoam block with foil to raise the cake. For the truck body, I baked chocolate … Read more
For this Dump Truck construction cake, I cut up two-pound cakes (just the pre-made kind in the freezer at the grocery store). I arranged the pieces to resemble a regular delivery truck, and then carved out the section of the back piece to make it the bed of a dump truck. I sliced a wedge … Read more
The base of this dump cake is a 9×13 cake pan. The wheels are 4 mini-bundt cake pans. The “cab” is a mini loaf pan cut to shape. The bed of the truck is made of two 9×9 cake pans. One cut to make the sides. The “lift” is a cake mix box. The dump … Read more
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