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
My friend asked me to make a Handy Manny cake for her twins 2nd birthday. I felt it was important that each boy had his very own cake so I decided to do two smaller cakes as well as a larger sheet cake to feed the guests. I used a 6″ round pan and decorated … Read more
I baked a sheet cake and covered it in white icing for this Homemade Handy Manny Birthday Cake. I traced Handy Manny out of a coloring book onto wax paper. I laid the wax paper down on the cake and used it as my guide to decorating Handy Manny. I read that you could use … Read more
My neighbor’s son wanted a Handy Manny cake so I went ahead and attempted it. I think I did pretty well. He doesn’t look exactly like Handy Manny but close. I also attempted to do each tool in his toolbox and managed to accomplish it.
My son was in a Handy Manny phase when he turned 2, so the theme of the cake was easy. I shopped the web for ideas and came up with this version of Manny’s toolbox for my son’s cake. I baked a 10×15 inch cake (vanilla) for the bottom, which I cut to look like … Read more
I got a lot of ideas for my grandson Brayden’s 2nd Handy Manny Birthday Cake from this site. Thank you to all who always share such great ideas.