For my sons 1st Birthday I made a train birthday cake. I used the Wilton choo choo train cake mold and mini loaf pans for the cars. I decorated each car a different color and scooped out about 2 inches of the center so I could fill it with treats.The wheels were mini Oreos and … Read more
I used ideas from this website to create this beautiful train shape cake for my sons second birthday. I prepared the cake board by coloring some ready made marzipan icing in green and rolling it straight on to the board then cutting the excess. Next I laid out the train tracks using liquorices. I baked … Read more
My friend Megan and I made a bright yellow Tonka Truck Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday party. We made 4 white chocolate mud cakes in different tins for the different parts of the truck. We covered some cardboard shapes in foil to sit the truck onto. The wheels are two wagon wheels stuck together. … Read more
I did this tank cake for my son’s 4th birthday party. I took ideas from different cakes from this website. What really made the cake and impressed the cake eaters was the camo. cake on the inside. I baked two 9 x 13 cakes, and one in a loaf pan. I mixed up 6 cake … Read more
I made 2 12 x 6 sponges for this fire truck cake. Cut in half and piled high with jam in center. The cab was cut and shaped from cut offs and stuck together with jam. I covered it in red fondant and layered up the coloured fondant on top, i.e. the windscreen,ladder, wheels, bumper … Read more
My eldest son was mad about trucks generally, especially diggers and bulldozers, so my husband and I set about trying to make him a ‘digger’ cake for his 2nd birthday. The base was easy, I just made my favourite caramel chocolate mudcake recipe and put it into a large square tin. I bought an icing … Read more
This Tank Birthday Cake was really easy and I was so happy with the results as was my 6 year old soldier. I used 2 boxes of cake mix and about 1 1/2 jars of frosting. The round cake I attached to the rectangular one by cutting up some plastic straws to keep it in … Read more
My little boy had a “construction” party for his 5th birthday and I made him this excavator / Construction Digger Cake. I made chocolate fudge brownie cake as it is firmer than other cakes and built the basic shapes of the cab and the bulldozer part and covered it all in yellow coloured fondant icing … Read more
First of all, I am not a cake-maker! I watched my mom make cakes my whole life, but this is really my first cake! So, although I have observer knowledge, I have little experience. So this IS something YOU can do (if you have supplies)!! And I am very proud of myself. The terms I … Read more
I looked at the other cakes made on this website and used ideas I saw here (thanks everyone!). The bottom layer is 9X13 and the top is an 8X8 (cut in proportion to the bottom layer). Inside it was a four layer (cut using dental floss) spice cake with cream cheese frosting but the outside … Read more
I made this army tank cake for my son’s 9th Army birthday party. I actually came to this very site for ideas. I always use box cakes. I used 2 boxes for this cake & two store bought tubs of frosting. To get that army green color I mixed dark green & black food coloring. … Read more
My son is obsessed with “mow mows” (aka tractors,) so I wanted to have a tractor-themed party for him, including the tractor cake. I was looking at his wooden toy tractor that his grandfather had made for him and thought, I could make a cake like that! So, I tried it and was thrilled with … Read more