I made this Garbage Truck Birthday Cake for a friend of mine who is a garbage man. I searched EVERYWHERE for an orange toy garbage truck because the town he works in has Orange garbage trucks. I wanted it to look authentic. The truck even made real garbage truck noises. I also purchased a mini garbage can online.
I made the garbage bags out of real garbage bags that I just cut into small squares, filled with tissues and tied with bread ties. The recycle bin was a small plastic box that I filled with cut up newspapers that I tied up with a string.
I made 2 9×13 chocolate cakes and filled them with chocolate mousse and iced them in vanilla butter cream. I airbrushed the cake green and blue and added plastic roaches and gummy worms on the sides of the cake. I airbrushed the corner of the cake black to look like a road and set the garbage truck on it. I took a small piece of paper and made a sign for the truck that said Edison, which is the town he works in.
I made a tree for the other corner of the cake by taking grape stems and dipping them into chocolate and then into into rice krispies that I dyed green to look like leaves. I added “grass” with a grass tip and piped the happy birthday in chocolate. He loved his cake and everyone that saw it really got a kick out of it. Theme cakes are my favorite cake to decorate because you can just let your imagination run wild!
Where did you get your garbage truck? What brand is it? – Thanks