Older Than Dirt Cake

Older Than Dirt Cake

My husband is 18 years my senior and I constantly joke with him that he is “older than dirt” and he always responds with “dirt is probably younger.” It’s our own little private joke so I decided to make him a cake that only we would understand. My 3 children ages 13, 10 and 6 … Read more

Cool Digger Dirt Cake – You Can Dig Your Own Cake!

Cool Digger Dirt Cake - You Can Dig Your Own Cake!

My son Tyler’s digger cake, that’s what he call’s it. Oh, he loves to dig. So my husband and I have been thinking about this cake for the last couple months, what are we going to do. We had bought the dump truck already, then two days before his birthday I had this idea, lets … Read more

6 Cool Homemade Dirt Cake Ideas

Coolest Dirt Cake Photos and How-To Tips

This garden cake is a simple three layered chocolate cake in rounds. Prepare any standard cake mix that will make three layers. After cooling place on a sturdy plate or something that you can carry it on. This cake will get heavy. Frost the bottom layer with chocolate frosting sides and top. Crush Oreo cookies … Read more

Coolest Homemade Dirt Cake Ideas 1

I made this fun garden cake for my sons 10th birthday. He wanted something different than the usual character cake so I came up with a dirt cake. You’ll need two packages of Oreo cookies, two chocolate instant puddings, one cream cheese, one whipped topping and gummy worms. For the fun decorations I went to … Read more

Coolest Homemade Dirt Cake Ideas 2

This dirt cake was my sons 2nd b-day cake! He was enamored with crawly bugs; it was also the year of the cicada, so it seemed fitting!! I created a dirt cake in a bucket with fun fruit bugs. What made it extra fun was that I made a caterpillar sandwich loaf (rolls baked together … Read more

Coolest Homemade Dirt Cake Ideas 3

My daughter wanted a DIFFERENT kind of cake for her “family” Birthday celebration… (she has a cake as well for her party with her friends)…so the idea of a DIRT CAKE was VERY APPEALING…. I first lined the pail with cello wrap… I mixed together 1/2 cup softened butter, an 8 ounce pkg. softened cream … Read more

Coolest Homemade Dirt Cake Ideas 5

For this cake I used a devils food cake mix and baked it in a bundt cake pan. When I went to take the dirt cake out of the pan, the top of it stuck to the pan, so I just filled the hole in the center with the remaining cake, which worked just fine. … Read more

Coolest Dirt Cake in a Wheelbarrow Idea

Homemade Dirt Cake in a Wheelbarrow Idea

My son loves to dig in the dirt so I thought a “Dirt Cake” with worms would be a fun way to celebrate and play! I also had to make cupcakes to send to preschool so I had quite a bit of baking to do. This Homemade Dirt Cake in a Wheelbarrow Idea was very … Read more

Coolest Mud Birthday Cake

Homemade Mud Birthday Cake

I made this Mud Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 5th birthday. My daughter is fearless when it comes to creepy crawling bugs. If she spots a worm she’ll pick it up, pet it, name it, make it a house and carry it around all day. I made it for a party of 40, so depending … Read more

Coolest Worm Dirt Cake

Homemade Worm Dirt Cake

I made this homemade worm dirt cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loves everything mud, bugs, worms and more so what better way to give him his own edible mud pile with bugs, worms even eatable rocks. Firstly I made a Mud cake slab, after the slab had cooled I broke it apart into … Read more

Coolest Earthworm Dirt Cake

Homemade Earthworm Dirt Cake

I was on a quest for a Max & Ruby cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loved the idea of the “dirt” cake that Max and Ruby made in one episode. I found a picture from the episode and took a picture of it, so I could look at the picture that I had … Read more