Load up your digger and get ready to dump a whole lot of deliciousness on your rascals next birthday! Know a kid who can’t walk past a crane, construction site or garbage truck without stopping to have a sticky beak? We’ve got their birthday covered.
Here are 12 construction cakes they’ll beg you to bake.
Drop a load
If only dump trucks really could come to your home and dump chocolate bars – life would be good. (Birthday Express)
Easy Excavation
Just take a random chunk out of your cake and cover in milo, perfect for if your cake isn’t perfect. (Phoodie)
Carve out a number
Carving out the birthday boy or girls age using a digger and decorate with crushed up chocolate pieces. (Pinterest)
Honeycomb heights
Three layers of chocolate cake, chocolaty buttercream icing and a dump truck full of honeycomb sure sounds like a birthday treat to us! (House of Lane)
Construction juntion
It’s construction junction! This birthday bake is bound to make their little digger-loving eyes light up. (But a Dream Custom Cakes)
Delicious hazard
If you’re going to go to all that effort deocrating the cake, then why not make the inside just as spectacular? (Made from Scratch)
Dig deep
Sometimes you have to dig deep to get to the good stuff and cake is no exception. (Pinterest)
It’s the magic number
Three may be the magic number but this construction cake will have muchkins mesmerised. (Pinterest)
Have a break
Have a break. Have a KitKat. In fact, have about one hundred of them! (Pinterest)
Tarmac two
Turn their birthday age into a road. Now that’s impressive! (My Three Things)
Down we go
There’s nothing like toy trucks and chocolate treats to get the kids come running. If only diggers did this in real life… (Pinterest)
Construction chaos
You’ll be familiar with the term ‘two many cooks spoil the broth’, but do you think too many diggers ruin the cake? Nope – they just make it even more fun! (Bits of Everything)
Bright and beautiful
Diggers can be cute too! Just take a look at this adorable birthday cake – there’s even a handy tutorial. (Bake-a-Boo)
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