Take a look at these cool homemade Pick-Up 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!
This tow truck cake was carved to become our neighbors tow truck. The flat bed is a one inch sheet cake and the cab was carved from three sheet cakes. The truck was 10″ x 20″. Lots of fondant and fun extras such as lights, chains, tinker toys wheels! The man under the cake has … Read more
I couldnt find an easy cake recipe of a pickup cake that I liked online so I just made this one up. I used a loaf pan for the body. I turned it upside down to decorate it so that the rounded part was on bottom. It made the pickup look more realistic and off … Read more
My son is in love with anything cars, trucks, or motorcylces so I thought it would be cute to make him a Pickup Truck Birthday Cake. It’s one of the few words he can say so far. Since he’s turning 2 I thought I’d put the number 2 on each door panel. I knew I … Read more
This was my first attempt at making a 3-D cake. My son was turning one and all vehicles fascinated him; I roved the Internet looking for ideas for cakes. I saw a truck cake and decided to create my own. This is an old-fashioned farm truck. I started with the idea of baking my own … Read more
This truck cake was made for my brother in law. I searched many truck cakes and found one similar to this. I used 2 9 x 5 pan cake. I used one for the bottom and cut 1/2 off to make the top of the vehicle. The wheels are Oreo cookies and M&M candies for … Read more
This Truck Birthday Cake was for my son’s third birthday. All my cakes are made from supermarket-bough Madeira cake blocks, ‘glued’ together with jam and then carved to shape. I use blocks of coloured icing which I roll and then ‘drape’ over the cake, trimming with a sharp knife where necessary to achieve fit. Detailing … Read more
My son had a Ford ranger truck which he was in a accident and the truck was a total loss. He loved his truck and I had made this cake for his birthday before the accident. I used the Wilton jeep pan and made the top toward the back look like the sky. I used … Read more
I have a very busy little boy, so for his first birthday we wanted his cake to look like a truck cake. I was going for the look of a real truck that he could push and drive so this is what I came up with. My husband helped me with the windshield angle so … Read more
I got the inspiration from a birthday cake party book. I made this Farmyard Truck Birthday Cake using 2 loaf size pans. One loaf was shaped for the front and the second loaf was used as is. The icing is chocolate flavoured butter icing. I used simple ready made biscuits: Oreo biscuits for wheels and … Read more
For my son’s second birthday we decided to do a truck theme, since trucks are his absolute favorite thing in the world. I loved the idea of the farm/pick-up trucks with the pumpkins in the back, that I saw on this site, for an October birthday. I made two loaf pound cakes and froze them … Read more
BJ Baldwin, the world’s best off road racer had a birthday and a big race the same week, so I made this BJ’s Trophy Truck Cake for him. It’s my replica of his SCORE race series trophy truck. Fortunately he loved it. It’s all cake and fondant. The rocks are chocolate, the dirt is vanilla … Read more
My nephew loves his trucks so I carved from a three layer 9×13 cake this Pickup Truck Birthday Cake. A trip to the specialty candy store gave me chocolate covered Oreo’s for wheels, candy rocks, strips of gummy for lower paint trim, M&M’s for headlights, tail lights and of course one box of cocoa pebbles … Read more