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
My daughter wanted something different and eye catching for her 18th birthday cake. She came up with the theme of pink and white for her other table decorations and loves zebra print so this cake seemed like the natural choice. I had never tried anything quite so adventurous as this so this really was a … Read more
To make this construction cake, I started with a rectangular cake. I printed the image off on the computer, and placed it on to the cake. I carved around the paper to shape the cake. Then, I iced the Shrek cake using butter cream icing.
To do the butterfly and flower cake for my daughter’s birthday, I had to buy a butterfly cake mold. So I went on EBay and got a used one for pretty cheap. I used twenty six cupcakes for the flower. I used three yellow cake mixes. I had to mix six different icing colors. For … Read more
We live in a mining town and my son is obsessed with the haul pack trucks his dad fixes. I made this dump cake out of 3 23cm cakes. One cake I cut a little off one side to make it rectangular and that was the base piece. I used the next cake to create … Read more
I made this Gramma’s Garden Cake for my Mother-in-law who loves to grow a garden every year with my daughters. The back part of the cake with the trees, is devil’s food cake (a 9×13 inch cake cut in half and stacked) with an Oreo cookie filling and topped with butter cream frosting. I made … Read more
I made this for my son’s 4th birthday. The detail on the tractor cake was done with colored chocolate (white and milk chocolate). For the hay bales I cut squares of cake, frosted them yellow and rolled them in browned coconut. I think I got that idea from this website :) I wish I had … Read more
I decided to make a Homemade Garden With Animals Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday since she loves animals and flowers. I made a 4 inch cake made of carrot and chocolate and placed a filling in between layers. I then covered the cake with a thin layer of buttercream icing and pink fondant. … Read more
I started out just making the tractor from a form cake pan. My son’s first birthday party grew in size so needed something else. I received some inspiration from other cakes on this website. I added the baler; it was a two-layer round cake trimmed. I used a cupcake for the wheel. I also used … Read more
My Mother in law’s birthday is hard for us because she doesn’t ever tell us what she wants. My husband made her the biggest bird house for her gift… so we went with the bird house theme for her special day… This is the homemade Bird house cake that I make for her. I used … Read more
I made this John Deere cake for my nephews second birthday. I cut the cake into a tractor shape, frosted donuts for the wheels and used oreos to simulate dirt. Tip: don’t use plastic wrap. My piping for the face stuck to it when I took it off. The kids still loved it though!
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