Best Digger Cake Recipes

EASY DIGGER CAKE

Steps:

• First wash your vehicles in warm soapy water and dry thoroughly. I bought new vehicles especially for use on the cake - they made a much appreciated extra little present for the birthday boy!
• Place your cake on a plate or cake board. If using a homemade cake, stack up any layers with a little icing in between.
• With the tip of a sharp knife, cut a hole in the top of the cake and remove the resulting chunk of cake. Eat it up before anyone else snaffles it - it's the cooks reward!
• Spread your icing over the top of the cake, leaving the hole bare. Arrange the construction vehicles so that they look like they are in action - being sure to place a digger by the hole. Add the chocolate chips and chocolate chunks to complete the picture. I had the bulldozer shovelling dark chocolate chips, and piled a few chunks of dark chocolate into the tipper truck.

CONSTRUCTION SITE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Grease bottoms and sides of 2 (8-inch) round cake pans with shortening or cooking spray.
• Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 8-inch rounds, using water, oil and eggs. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 1 hour. For easier handling, refrigerate or freeze cakes 30 minutes to 1 hour or until firm.
• On serving plate, place 1 cake layer, rounded side down. In medium bowl, mix 2 containers chocolate frosting with 1/2 container vanilla frosting. Spread with 1/2 cup of the frosting. Top with second cake layer, rounded side up. Spread thin layer of frosting over cake to seal in crumbs. Refrigerate or freeze 30 minutes to 1 hour.
• Using serrated knife, cut a quarter out of top cake layer (as shown in photo). In bowl, crumble removed cake and mix with 1/2 cup frosting to look like dirt. Mound "dirt" on cake. Frost remaining cake thickly with remaining frosting.
• In small bowl, tint about 1/3 cup vanilla frosting with orange food color. Place on cake in circles for construction cones; top with candy corn. In small bowl, tint about 1/2 cup vanilla frosting with green food color for grass; place around cake. Place trucks on cake. Place rock-shaped candy in trucks.