This cake was for a friends baby shower with a nautical theme. The bottom cake is a full sheet cake. The boat is made from two 9” round cakes that I cut in a boat shape and covered with white icing. The windows are made of peppermint candies and the rails are made of string … Read more
This school bus cake was made for my daughters class on the first day of school. First I baked a 9×13 chocolate cake from a store-bought mix. Then I iced it in thin consistency white buttercream icing (recipe below). The next most important step to this school bus cake – and many themed cakes – … Read more
My son LOVES all things garbage so I decided he needed a garbage truck themed 3rd birthday. I made a Garbage Truck Birthday Cake from a single-layer 9×13 cake, cut out a small chunk at the top left, and eased the top right corner to make the shape of a garbage truck. I also cut … Read more
I saw the cake here on-line and loved the jeep design! I added roll-bars and the “spare-tire” in the back and the giant attacking spiders to for another type of thrill!. This Jeep Mud Bogging Cake only took 30 minutes to put together. Perfect for my son’s 5th birthday party!
This cake was fun to make. I searched many birthday cakes and this one most impressed me. I used a sheet cake for the bottom and cut 1/4 off to make the top of the vehicle. I used a picture of a Rubicon Jeep for all the detail. The wheels are chocolate doughnuts with icing … Read more
I made this monster truck cake for my nephew’s fifth birthday. His favorite truck was “Grave Digger”- thus the attempt at black frosting. I baked one 8″ round cake for the base, and half of a loaf cake for the truck. For the cab, I used a Twinkie. The green lights on top are bubble … Read more
This Monster Truck Birthday Cake is the Monster Mutt monster truck. I used a two bread pans to bake the body of the cake. I stacked them to create height. I used special little round cake pans for the wheels. The ears are made from fruit roll ups. The tongue is borrowed from Mr. Potato … Read more
I made this Monster Truck Birthday Cake for my grandson’s 5th birthday. He loved it. I used two box cakes. Out of each box I got 1-9″ x 13″ and 1-6″round. Used a whipped cream frosting that was homemade to fill with. Made a homemade marshmallow fondant and colored it brown. Place the two 9 … Read more
I wasn’t having any luck finding a pre-made monster truck birthday cake for my son’s 4th birthday so the hubby and I thought “we can do this!” This is my first fondant cake EVER! (Thanks YouTube! LOL) It’s basically 2 chocolate cake mixes and dyed fondant. My husband made the truck with 2 brownies, one … Read more
I got the idea for this Monster Jam Birthday Cake for my great nephew’s 3rd birthday by searching coolest-birthday-cakes.com. There were many wonderful ideas and I took pointers from some of the postings. I used a large roasting pan [11x15x1.5 inches] and two cake mixes [one chocolate, one white] for the main slab. I had … Read more
Tommy loves monster trucks and the color green, so for his 3rd birthday he wanted a green monster truck cake. It was pretty easy; it took two cake mixes and a lot of icing. It might be a good idea to have a monster truck picture around while you’re creating your cake (as reference).
This Harley Birthday Cake Design is a basic sheet cake, white icing, black fondant with icing piping for letters.