How to Make a Monster Truck Birthday Cake
Making a monster truck birthday cake is a creative way to celebrate a birthday with anyone who loves monster trucks. You only need a handful of supplies to make it, and you can use a box cake mix to save time. If you don't have a cake decorator, you can buy frosting in tubes with decorating tips. You can decorate the monster truck to look like your child's favorite or any way you want. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Cake mix and ingredients
- 9- by 13-inch baking dish
- Frosting in various colors
- Cake decorator
- 4 chocolate-frosted donuts
Instructions
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Bake a cake according to the box instructions for a 9- by 13-inch cake pan.
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Let the cake cool for 15 minutes, then take the cake out of the pan and place it on a cooling rack. Allow the cake to cool completely.
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Cut the cake into thirds, each a little more than 4 inches wide.
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Spread a thick layer of frosting on the top of one of the pieces of cake. Put a second piece of cake on top of the layer of frosting.
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Cut the third piece of cake in half so the two pieces are approximately 4 inches wide and 4 1/2 inches long.
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Spread a thick layer of frosting over the top of the two larger pieces of cake, then place one of the smaller cut pieces on top, all the way to one side so the edges of the cake line up.
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Put a thick layer of frosting on the smaller piece, then put the second small piece on top of that frosting layer (this will create the cab of the monster truck).
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Cover the entire cake with frosting.
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Put black frosting in a cake decorator, and draw the doors and windows on the monster truck. Use different colored frosting to decorate the cake as you like.
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Put four chocolate-frosted donuts on the sides of the cake where the tires should be.
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Tips & Warnings
Sketch out the design of your cake so you can make sure you have all the different colors of frosting you'll need.
Don't try to frost or stack the cake while it's still warm. The cake will fall apart easily.
Resources
- Photo Credit birthday cake image by nTripp from Fotolia.com
