I made this construction birthday cake for my grandson’s 2nd birthday. I started with a three tier mountain cake with a chocolate road leading to a one tier cake. To make the large construction cones I used ice cream cones covered with orange candy melts placed on chocolate covered graham crackers. All the lettering and signs … Read more
For 3 weeks leading up to my son’s birthday, all he could talk about was the Bob The Builder birthday cake that he was going to have. I searched high and low for Bob characters, toys and decorations to put on his cake. I couldn’t come up with anything. It was now the night before his … Read more
This Bob the Builder cake was made for a special little boy for his first birthday. I enjoy making cakes for friend’s and family. When I showed up at the party with Bob no one wanted to eat it, they all said it was to good to eat. The kids there loved it and told me … Read more
This is a Craftsman toolbox cake I did for my handyman Dad. It was inspired by a wrench and screwdriver cookie cutter set I found. I made some of those out of sugar cookies and placed them on and around the cake for decorations. The cake was chocolate sheet cakes that I cut into rectangles and stacked and … Read more
I got my inspiration for this construction cake from a friend who’d made a similar one. I just made a basic chocolate cake recipe and I used an online guide to cut the pieces of cake and join to make the ‘3’. “How to make number cakes” by H. Harris seems to be a popular one to … Read more
My son Tyler’s digger cake, that’s what he call’s it. Oh, he loves to dig. So my husband and I have been thinking about this cake for the last couple months, what are we going to do. We had bought the dump truck already, then two days before his birthday I had this idea, lets … Read more
My sister in law called me as my nephew’s birthday was approaching and asked me if I could combine his two favorite characters, Scoop the Dozer from Bob the Builder and Nemo, into a cake for his second birthday. I asked her to text to my phone a picture of Scoop, which she promptly did, and off … Read more
I made this Handy Manny cake for my son Jake’s 4th birthday. He is totally into building things and just loves Handy Manny . For this cake I used my biggest roasting dish to get the size of the cake that I needed and then printed the picture of Handy Manny from the net that … Read more
My son loves Handy Manny so for his 2 birthday we decided that would be the theme. My mom made the Handy Manny cake and cut it like the wood that Manny’s sign in the show is on. For the decorations on top I printed off Manny and all of his tools from the Disney … Read more
My son really loves Felipe on Handy Manny so I decided to give it a try. Since there aren’t any molds for this, I made a 13×9 cake and cut out a rounded rectangle for the top and a narrower rectangle for the bottom of the screwdriver. I just used gel and liquid food coloring … Read more
I created this Handy Manny cake for my son’s 1st birthday and his favorite cartoon is Hanny Manny. This was my first attempt decorating a cake myself. I really enjoyed it and plan on creating many more for many occasions.
This garden cake is a simple three layered chocolate cake in rounds. Prepare any standard cake mix that will make three layers. After cooling place on a sturdy plate or something that you can carry it on. This cake will get heavy. Frost the bottom layer with chocolate frosting sides and top. Crush Oreo cookies … Read more