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I just finished this amazing construction cake and matching smash cake. Aren’t they cute? The best part is that they were incredibly easy to make – something anyone can do!Check out the details of this easy DIY construction site cake here:
To make a construction cake similar to these, you’ll need the following:
- Cake – If you choose to use boxed cake, this brand is my favourite
- Chocolate frosting – I use this recipe to make my own. I don’t recommend using store-bought as it doesn’t seem to hold details well.
- Cake board
- Set of mini construction trucks
- Cookie crumbs
- Chocolate rocks
- Yellow piping icing
- Other construction details – signs, etc. (Optional)
- Construction tape (Optional)
After you’ve assembled and frosted your cake, you can very quickly decorate.
- Cover the the cake board in construction tape. This simply adds another level of detail. For the smaller cake, I didn’t think it was necessary.
- Decide where the trucks will go. Will they be lifting? Dumping?
- Place cookie crumbs. I sprinkled crumbs all around the base of the cake as well as in random piles.
- Place the trucks. I love when a truck is tearing into the side of a cake (pictured above in the larger cake).
- Place the rocks. I added some around the base of the cake as well as in the buckets of the trucks.
- Add details. Pipe a message and add optional extra details.
- Serve!
My favourite parts of this cake are that the candy “rocks” that look incredibly real, and one of the trucks “driving up” the side of the cake that creates a nice balance with the Oreo crumb hill on the other side.
SO simple and easy to put together!
