This cake was made from three 9x12 cakes. The boys are really into blueberry banana oatmeal and one day they said they wanted a blueberry banana cake. I started searching for recipes and finally found one I thought would work. So one cake was blueberry banana, one white cake and one cherry chip cake. Brian cut a piece of plywood (fire truck shape) and we mounted two smaller pieces of wood (where the tires would be). I then cut the cakes to the same size as the plywood. I had some scrap pieces left over and I used those to stack up and create the cab of the fire truck. I never make my own frosting because it seems to take long enough just with the decorating so the frosting is Hyvee cream cheese frosting. It took 4 containers to do this cake.
The wheels are chocolate donuts with black icing on them. The lights in the front of the truck are like Mike and Ike's. The lights on top of the cab are Dots. And the hoses on the side are black licorice.
Originally I had red frosting already mixed up the night before (so the color could deepen), but the closer we got to the IA/ISU game, I just couldn't bring myself to create a fire truck for two hawkeye boys out of cyclone colors. Call me psycho, but I just couldn't do it. So all of the red frosting went in the trash and some Hawkeye Black and Gold were created! It took about 4 hours to put together and decorate.
The boys loved the truck and had a fabulous birthday party!
