![]() Three may be the magic number but this construction cake will have muchkins mesmerised. Sometimes you have to dig deep to get to the good stuff and cake is no exception. 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 ( But a Dream Custom Cakes) Delicious hazard It’s construction junction! This birthday bake is bound to make their little digger-loving eyes light up. 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 ( Phoodie) Carve out a numberĬarving out the birthday boy or girls age using a digger and decorate with crushed up chocolate pieces. Just take a random chunk out of your cake and cover in milo, perfect for if your cake isn’t perfect. If only dump trucks really could come to your home and dump chocolate bars – life would be good. Here are 12 construction cakes they’ll beg you to bake. Stores that sell my book listed by country:Īll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.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. Set in the fridge or freezer and then tip push out of the mold.īy Ann Reardon How To Cook That My Cookbook ![]() Fill the middle with popping sugar or filling of choice. Fill the mold, wait a until it starts setting a little and tip it out. ![]() Melt some candy melts or nestle white chocolate melts and colour using oil based red and yellow food colouring. Popping sugar traffic cones: Use a traffic cone toy and reusable food grade casting gel to make a mold of your traffic cone. Step 8: Take a photo and upload it in the comments section below. This cake should make 30-35 serves depending on how you cut it. ![]() If using sugar not isomalt follow the sugar decorations recipe. Step 7: Fill your isomalt windows and add to the cake. (If making ahead do not add your truck tray until the day of the party or it may crack or split when it becomes moist in the fridge). Step 6: Cut out and decorate your cake (either on the day of the party or the day before the party depending on the time of day). If you are not covering the rocks in the back of the truck in ganache you will only need half as much. For the consistency of ganache on this truck I used 875g (30.86 ounces) chocolate, a mixture of milk and dark chocolate, with 320 millilitres (10.82 fluid ounces) cream (35% fat). The start of the chocolate cake recipe video shows you how to make ganache. Make your ganache and leave in the fridge overnight. Once it is completely cool cover in plastic wrap to store. You can do this the day before you want to decorate your cake (ie 2 days before the party). Check that it is cooked through to the centre by inserting a knife into the middle. Place an empty baking tray on a shelf above it to shield the top for heat. I used a double quantity of this chocolate cake recipe and baked it at 150☌ (302 degrees Fahrenheit) for 3 hours 20 minutes. Cover your cake board and make your cardboard cake board in the shape of the template. Once the fondant has dried hard make the centre of the wheels. The downloadable template gives you a guide to cut out all the ‘make ahead’ fondant pieces. You will need to leave at least a few days for the fondant to dry out before you want to decorate the cake. * rectangle cake tin Cake Tin Rectangle Extendable (or see video for alternative) slightly bigger than the cake template. * optional rock candy geodes for in the back of the truck *rolling pin, knife & pizza cutter for cutting the fondant * ganache (see details further down in step 5) * double quantity of this moist chocolate cake The one I used was 45cm (17.72 inches) x 40cm (15.75 inches) Tip: make sure it will fit in your fridge before you put the cake on it. * 1.5kg (3.31 pounds) Black fondant (you will have approximately 200g (7.05 ounces) left over, store in two ziplock plastic bags for a later date). * 1 kg (2.2 pounds) white fondant (colour it to make 900g (31.75 ounces) yellow and 100g (3.53 ounces) light grey, to make the light grey mix a little of the black fondant with the white).
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