Easy Construction Cake
If your little builder is dreaming of bulldozers, dump trucks, and cement mixers for their upcoming birthday bash, they'll really DIG this cake. It's perfect for a beginner or a busy parent and kids absolutely love it!
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Electric mixer
- spoons
- Sharp knife
- Scissors
- Measuring cups
- Wax paper
- Marker
- Zip loc bags
- Mini construction trucks
- Piping bag & tip
- Yellow poster board
- Black electrical tape
Ingredients
- Eggs
- Oil
- Water
- Box chocolate cake mix
- Reese’s pieces
- Kitkat bar
- Oreo crumbs
- Black sprinkles
- Whoppers
- Can of chocolate icing
Instructions
Bake Cake
- Make your chocolate cake mix according to the package instructions.
- If you're new to cake making, you can leave it in the pan like I did. Alternatively, line your 9 inch by 13 inch cake pan with parchment paper before you put in your cake batter to make it easier to get out.
Cool Cake
- Allow your cake to fully cool to room temperature before decorating. I even advise putting your cake in the fridge to make sure it's cold.
- If you cake is even slightly warm, it can cause the frosting to run and melt.
Make the number 3
- Use wax paper, cut it the size of your glass pan, and write a big number 3 on it with a marker. This will be your template for the top of the cake. (see article for photo instructions)
- Cut out the number 3 and discard the rest of the surrounding parchment.
- Place your number 3 stencil on top of your chocolate cake and then score it with a sharp knife. Go slow and be careful.
- Use a spoon to scoop out the top of your number 3; you don’t have to dig too deep into your cake.
Decorate
- Use your icing bag and tip to frost your construction sheet cake with a border that your Reese’s Pieces will be able to stick to. (See article for photo instructions)
- Fill in the rest of the top of your cake with chocolate icing, but don’t put any icing inside your number three.
- Carefully spoon and sprinkle the crumbled oreos into your number three dig site. I liked adding in a few black sprinkles to the oreos to give the cake a bit more sparkle.
- Place your Kitkats to look like logs and your Whoppers to look like boulders around your construction site cake.
- Add in your miniature toy construction trucks. I used a touch of chocolate icing to keep the Whoppers from rolling out of the back of my mini toy dump truck.
Notes
See article for step by step photos and extra tips!
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Nutrition
Calories: 315kcal