EASY CONSTRUCTION CAKE {EXCAVATOR CAKE} - CAKEWHIZ
Easy construction cake or excavator cake, homemade with simple ingredients. This birthday cake is composed of two tiers of chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, candies, Oreos and toy trucks create a construction site.
Provided by Abeer Rizvi
Categories Dessert
Total Time 90 minutes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Yield 20
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Bake cakes and allow them to cool completely.
- While the cakes are cooling, prepare the frosting and chop up some of the candies in half.
- Place each cake on a round cardboard cake board that's the same size as the cake.
- Cut each cake in half horizontally and spread icing on top.
- Place the other half of each cake on top and press gently to secure together.
- Ice both cakes fully in icing and use the back of a spoon to create a rustic pattern.
- Place the 8 inch cake on a large serving board.
- Stick 4 dowels or bubble tea straws in the center of the cake and cut straws to the correct height.
- Place the other 4 inch cake on top of the dowels and press gently to stick the 2 tiers together.
- Place the washed toy trucks on the cake and on the large cake board.
- Create an illusion of a construction site by sticking chopped up candy bars on cake to represent large stones and sprinkle Oreo crumbs for dirt. Create a puddle of ganache around some of the trucks to represent wet cement.
- Do this decoration for the tiered cake and the large board as well to create a bigger story. Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 625 kcal, CarbohydrateContent 110 g, ProteinContent 5 g, FatContent 20 g, SaturatedFatContent 9 g, TransFatContent 1 g, CholesterolContent 3 mg, SodiumContent 561 mg, FiberContent 2 g, SugarContent 82 g, UnsaturatedFatContent 10 g, ServingSize 1 serving
DIGGER CAKE RECIPE - BBC GOOD FOOD
You don’t need to be an engineer to make this impressive construction site birthday cake, just a few toys, some chocolate coated wafer bars and a little creative flair
Provided by Jane Hornby
Categories Dessert
Total Time 45 minutes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Yield 20
Number Of Ingredients 22
Steps:
- Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Use a little of the butter to grease the sides and bases of two 20cm sandwich tins. Melt the rest of the butter in a small saucepan. Off the heat, add the milk, yogurt and vanilla, followed by the eggs. Beat well with a fork.
- Put the dry ingredients plus ¼ tsp salt into a large bowl. Whisk to combine – this aerates and saves sifting. Tip in the wet ingredients and whisk to a smooth, silky batter.
- Don’t hang around at this point. Pour the batter evenly into the prepared tins and put onto the middle shelf in the oven. Bake for 25 mins or until risen and a skewer inserted into the middle of the cakes comes out clean. Cool for 10 mins in the tins, then carefully invert the cakes and leave to cool upside down on a cooling rack.
- Make the buttercream. Stir the cocoa into 2 tbsp milk until smooth. Put the butter into a large bowl and sift the icing sugar on top. Add the cocoa mixture, vanilla, and a pinch of salt. Beat for a few mins with electric beaters until creamy and spreadable. Add the extra 1 tsp milk if you need to.
- Place one of the cakes towards the back of the board or plate, and fix it with a little of the buttercream to stop it slipping about. Spread with ¼ of the buttercream.
- Sandwich the second cake on top. With a small, serrated knife, cut away a scallop-shaped crater from the top cake. Cut about half way down into the sponge and removing about a quarter of the top of the cake. Keep the piece you remove. Position two diggers on the top of the cake to see if your crater is about the right size and shape, then set them aside again.
- Using a palette knife, paddle the rest of the buttercream evenly over the top of the cake and down its sides. Make sure that the edge of the excavated area is defined.
- Snap the ends from enough of the KitKat fingers to follow the edge of the excavated area, then press them into the buttercream. Now fix the rest of the whole fingers around the side of the cake.
- Crumble the cake that you removed in step 6, to make soil. Part-fill the excavated hole with the soil, adding a few Smarties, if you like. Position the diggers on top and put some soil and Smarties into their buckets.
- Fill a lorry or dump truck with more crumbs and Smarties, and let some of the soil and spill over the edge of the cake and the broken KitKats.
- Use the marker to write your message on the card and draw some diagonal black lines. Cut the straight part of the straw into two equal pieces, then fix these to the back of the card with tape to make a sign. Position the sign at the back of the cake. If the sponges are used fresh or within a day of baking (wrap well once cooled), the finished cake will keep in a cool place (not the fridge) for 2 days.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 451 calories, FatContent 25 grams fat, SaturatedFatContent 16 grams saturated fat, CarbohydrateContent 50 grams carbohydrates, SugarContent 37 grams sugar, FiberContent 2 grams fiber, ProteinContent 5 grams protein, SodiumContent 0.32 milligram of sodium
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