I made this Firetruck 1st Birthday Cake for my nephew’s 1st birthday. It was lots of fun to make. I started with two 10″ cakes, two 8″ cakes and one 6″ cake. I frosted all of them white. Next, I frosted the 10″ cakes using the red, black and orange stripes. I also added black … Read more
I looked at a picture of a tank and cut out the cake bottom from a 9×13 pan. The Turret is an oval cake pan trimmed to a proper size. The soldier is a 1.00 army man from Walmart. The tracks are painted bubble tape, and a leaf tip to make bumps along it. The … Read more
My son wanted a tank cake and I was wondering how in the world I was going to accomplish that. Then I stumbled on your website and couldnt wait to get started. I knew it was going to turn out awesome! I simply made a 9×13 cake for the bottom and then made two 9” … Read more
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This dump truck construction cake was for my sons first birthday last week. He loves his toy dump truck so we used that theme. The cake turned out much bigger than I thought, it easily would have fed over 30 people. I started with 11×13 and 9×11 sheet cakes. I used a small box covered … Read more
I first want to explain that Michael Paul wanted a Scoop cake but his mother didnt want the face on it just the truck; therefore I made Scoop without a face. To make dump cake I used two regular sized loaf pans and four mini loaf pans. The body of the truck is the two … Read more
For my sons second birthday I did a fire truck cake. I baked it with a regular loaf pan for the main part of the truck. A mini loaf pan for the top. The tires were the bottom of cupcakes, painted with black frosting. Candy was used for the different parts of the fire truck. … Read more
I found this cake on the Family Fun website. It was really an easy cake to assemble. I had to buy the red frosting because it was incredibly difficult to avoid a pink fire engine just using food coloring!
I made this B-2 Stealth Bomber Birthday Cake Idea for my husband’s birthday. I wanted to make some kind of airplane and this one seemed easiest due to the straight lines and minimal sculpting. As long as you can pull up a picture of the real thing as a reference, it’s very simple. Bake your … Read more
I made this cake idea for a pilot leaving the company (a going away party). I began with a square cake pan for the sky. I used blue food coloring in fluffy white frosting and then swirled plain fluffy white frosting for clouds. Then I placed a round cake pan for the plane. I used … Read more
This Homemade Riverboat Cake was made for a retirement party, after the Barefoot Princess was sold to new owners. I did my best to make the cake look as much like the real boat as I could, and learned a lot from the process. I used three 9×13 inch cake pans, baked different flavors…chocolate, yellow … Read more
I was approached by a friend of mine to make his 5th Anniversary Cake for his business. He told me he wanted his tour bus with Forrest Gump sitting waiting for the bus. I told him I would see what I could do for him. I started with a wood base 24 x 24 I … Read more