Garbage Truck Cake

The birthday boy couldn't decide what kind of truck he wanted for his birthday cake. He's really into trucks, but he had to pick just one! At first he wanted a shower loader, with a Bob the Builder figurine. Then, a couple weeks before his birthday, his mummy said he changed his mind. He wanted a garbage truck instead! 

garbage truck cake

The birthday boy takes his trucks seriously. His mummy made sure to send me lots of reference pics, specifically of Brüder's Scania R-series rear loading toy garbage trucks, so that I could capture the details. 

chocolatey goodness

The cake is a tall 4 layers of Devil's food cake, filled with whipped dark chocolate ganache and chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream. I baked it in two 11' x 15' pans, and then cut those in half and stacked them together to make a tall cake. Hadriel's mummy didn't want the whole cake covered in fondant because not too many people like the taste of fondant (my son loves it, though!) I iced the "sky" with vanilla buttercream dyed sky blue, and then used the same buttercream dyed green for the grass, piped using a grass piping tip. 

I printed out the image of the garbage truck and glued it on some cardboard, and then carefully cut it out. I used that as a template to cut the truck out of fondant, using an Xacto knife. I added the detailing onto the body of the truck in same way, using the template and carefully cutting with the Xacto knife. I added a number 5 (instead of a 2) on the truck and the birthday boy's name for the license plate, since it was his 5th birthday. 

To set the scene, I added a road, some trees and some clouds behind the truck. The little rocks were made with some grey and black fondant marble together. To complete the scene, I moulded a handsome garbage man figurine, a garbage can, a couple of recycling bins and some pylons out of fondant. The garbage even has garbage coming out of it! 

handsome garbage man fondant figurine

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Happy 5th Birthday, big boy Hadriel!*
(photo courtesy of the birthday boy's mummy)