Take a look at these cool homemade Monster Truck cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
I made the bottom layer of this Homemade Monster Mutt & El Toro Loco Truck Cake a 15″ x 11″ chocolate cake, using Hershey’s chocolate cake recipe. Put in on 3 taped-together, foil-covered cake boards. Covered cake with Hershey’s recipe for chocolate frosting, sprinkled it with tan and brown ‘Turtle Sprinkles’, and stuck on candy … Read more
I used 2 yellow cake mixes in a 13×9″ baking pan for this 4 Wheeling Cake Design. Of course the cake had a nice dome on it. Not that I planned it that way but it actually turned out to be very helpful. I leveled off the cake and I was going to make a … Read more
This monster truck cake is just a simple sheet cake frosted with chocolate and Monster Jam Trucks (theme was Grave Digger), crushing metal cast cars and buses. I copied the sponsors from the Monster Jam website and made a stadium effect and used checked paper on the outside to finish off. So simple but the … Read more
This Rough Rider cake is the first big cake I have ever done. It took me 14 hours to do, but I am so happy how it turned out. The whole truck is cake that I elevated with dowels to get the height. The tires were made out of rice crispy treats. The best thing … Read more
I baked this Monster Truck cake using 2 rainbow bit cake mixes in a Wilton car pan. I shaved the car down to look like a pick up truck. I used honey cruller donuts which I iced with black icing for the wheels. I used black licorice for accessories and Hersey’s kisses for the fog … Read more
I used two quarter sheets, stacked and filled, then using a serrated knife I carved from the top of the cake, first going to the front then to the back. I used Rice Kripies for the tires, then piped with tip 18 in black to cover them. I used red fondant for the tongue, and … Read more
I thought about what Kaedan would want on his Homemade Monster Truck Birthday Cake Design. I used a Wilton car cake pan. Used a yellow cake mix with choc chips, sour cream, and pudding added. Kaedan and I made the orange frosting. The tires were Krowler donuts which I sprayed with black frosting glaze I … Read more
My son requested a red velvet cake for his 4th birthday and he likes monster trucks, so I looked to this website for ideas on decorating a Monster Jam Cake. For the cake itself, I used the Neely’s recipe (found in “Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook”). I couldn’t find the recipe … Read more
Want to make a cake for your little one? If I can do this – you can too! I tried doing a fondant covered cake for my little one last year – Lightning McQueen – and it turned out really well for my first time ever using fondant. This year, my now 4 year old … Read more
One of the first 3-d cakes I’ve attempted and the first time I’ve used fondant. This was for my neighbor’s 30th birthday. He loves to go mudding, so I worked off of that. I used various tips from this site to figure out this truck cake. The base is made of two layers of rice … Read more
I made this Dalmation Monster Truck Cake for a friends son’s 3rd Birthday. This is the first Monster Truck cake that I’ve ever made. I really like to make challenging cakes and believe me this was a challenge to make. The ramp is made out of a chocolate cake mix and the truck is a … Read more
I was able to come up with a very satisfying Monster Truck Birthday Cake for my Grandson, thanks to other submissions to this site. I made 2 batches of a standard pound cake recipe (any cake mix should do), and a standard 11″x14″ cake pan. The sides were iced in white buttercream icing on which … Read more