Saturday, January 23, 2010

Backhoe Cake


This is a cake I made for my cousins son's 5th birthday. The base is chocolate fudge cake covered in buttercream frosting and fondant. The base of the backhoe is Lemon Almond Awesome Cake covered in buttercream frosting and fondant, while the wheels, back "arm", and pile of dirt are Rice Krispie treats covered in fondant. Finally, the construction man and scoops are made of gumpaste.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I love this cake. got to make one next weekend for grandson. can you please tell me how you made the backhoe.
thanks for the help

Andy and Jill said...

Thanks! The back "arm" is made of rice krispie treats that were then covered by fondant. The body of the backhoe is stacked pound cake and the front end loader is black gumpaste that I dried over a paper towel cardboard center. Hope that helped!