Last year, for J’s 2nd birthday, I made a Thomas The Tank Engine cake. The icing turned green because of the yellow dye in the dairy free spread and when someone asked J what his cake was, he said a car! So I as very happy that when I started researching how to make a digger cake, it looked a lot easier!
How to make a digger cake
The great thing about this dairy free digger cake is that it doesn’t even need decorating – in fact it needs destroying…
It is so simple and effective. and I love it! I use a homemade vegan chocolate cake as the base but you could easily use a shop bought one too if you wanted to. The crumbs are Oreos which are a surprising vegan treat and the gold rocks add a nice bright touch.
I then added a couple of the many diggers we have lying around to bring the digger cake to life.
I had been looking forward to making a digger cake for months since I first saw the idea on Life With Baby Kicks
I am very pleased to tell you that it was just as easy as I was hoping and looked amazing. J absolutely loved it and everybody complimented me on it so one happy birthday boy and mummy!
So here’s how to make a digger cake…
All you need is:
1 chocolate cake (I use this amazing vegan chocolate cake recipe)
1 pack of Chocolate Cream Oreos
Minature diggers
Instructions:
Pull out about a third of the cake to make a big sloping hole.
Crush oreos finely and sprinkle them over the slope and the plate.
Place digger figures on top and around the cake.
Crush some more Oreos into larger chunks and place in piles or in the dump truck and digger buckets.
I also found some gold chunky sprinkles that I added on as well.
That’s it! Serve it to the three year old and stand back in awe…
This looks fab! It’s such a simple design that looks so so effective! Looks great x
Thanks. Simple but effective is my favourite thing!!
This looks great! Reuben had a construction party when he was little! I loved it and so did he 🙂 Hx
What is it about toddlers and construction?!
Oh this looks so good and very professional! I bet I tastes lovely too.
It tastes amazing – it’s a vegan recipe based on my mum’s chocolate cake.
Probably the coolest cake I’ve seen in a long time, I love it!!
How lovely. and Vegan too – I will need to use this recipe as making a vegan baby shower cake for a friend next month!! So will convert these to cupcakes! Very amazing!!
Definitely give it a go. It works really well as cupcakes too.
Oh wow. I love this!!! It looks delicious and so imaginative too.
Thanks!
Lucky boy having his mum make his cakes! It’s such a lovely thing to do and as he gets older it’ll be one of the things he remembers from his childhood – Mums homemade birthday cakes! This one looks really good, so effective and fun! Hope he had a great birthday Xx
Ah, I hope he does. I remember all the cakes my mum used to make me!
Oh my goodness what a fab idea. I may have to do this for Little L’s birthday cake this year. He is 3 in june. Thanks so much for sharing and the inspiration.
Do try it and let me know how you get on.
Seriously adorable!
My son will love it!! And me too because its simple 😉 thanks