Construction Cake and Cupcakes

Woohoo!! Last cake of the year. Do you remember Matthew, the little boy that had 4 construction-themed birthday cakes last year? One was a cement mixer, another was a digger, the other was a transporter and the last one was a dump truck! Well, little Matthew is turning 3 this year and he is still into Construction! So, to celebrate his birthday on New Year's day, I got to make him another construction-themed cake and cupcakes!

Construction-themed cupcake toppers

The celebration would have about 70 guests, so I made this really massive 4-layer chocolate cake, filled with whipped dark chocolate ganache and iced with chocolate French buttercream and decorated with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream! The cake easily weighs more than my 10 month old baby girl. I have a backache from lifting it on and off of the table!! Better to have more cake than not enough, right?

Construction-site cake

Matthew's mum is going to top the cake with a whole bunch of his construction trucks. The mound of dirt in the middle is also chocolate cake, frosted with whipped dark chocolate ganache and covered in chocolate rocks. The strip of road on the cake is made out of fondant. I used a grass piping tip to pipe grass all over the cake. I like to drag the bag in different directions so that the grass looks more natural. 

construction site cake waiting for trucks to come in

fondant rocks!

There were three flavours for the 4 dozen cupcakes: chocolate, red velvet and strawberry. I frosted all the cupcakes with chocolate French buttercream and sprinkled it with some crushed Oreo-like biscuits to make them looks like they're "dirty". Hehe. Covered it dirt!! Come on. 

chocolate cupcakes

red velvet cupcakes

strawberry cupcakes

For the fondant cupcake toppers, I made yellow hard hats, pylons, cement mixers and road signs with the no. 3 on them. Actually, the birthday boy's mummy only wanted hard hats & pylons, but I just couldn't help myself! The mini cement mixers are just too cute!! I used food markers to draw on the road signs and for the headlights on the cement mixers. 

Construction-themed cupcake toppers

construction pylons

Yellow hard hats

Cement Truck cupcake toppers

side-view of the cement truck cupcake toppers

Front-view of the cement truck cupcake toppers

The construction site cake (topped with the birthday boy's construction trucks) and cupcakes were featured on the the super cool construction birthday party table set up by Lovewithdetails! The custom cut out truck signs, yellow and black construction tape banner & of course all the birthday boy's construction trucks really brought the theme to life! Happy 3rd Birthday, Matthew!!

Construction Site birthday cake*

Construction-themed cupcakes*

Construction Birthday Table set-up*

*photos courtesy of Lovewithdetails