Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon, today I am going to show you how to
make a dump truck cake. I made this particular one for my little boy
when he turned two on the weekend and we had a party to celebrate.
Now if you go to the blog howtocookthat.net you can download the
template that i've made for you.
You can make the fondant details a month ahead but the minimum you are going to
have to do it is about three days ahead. Because the fondant needs time to dry out
on these details so that they will hold their shape. Put you black fondant on some non-stick
baking paper. If your fondant is sticking to the rolling pin like this one just
spray it with some cooking oil and run that around your roller
and then it should roll out smoothly for you.
you want to roll it to about
4 mm thick
Then using the templates that I have given you as a guide.
Then cut out the front of the truck.
Then cut out the rectangle and strips and lay them over the top.
as shown and then put a strip on either side.
We then want to cut out the two little rectangles, one in each corner.
use the back of a skewer
to poke some little holes for details and then the corner of your ruler
on the bottom of each corner just to make a little indent.
and then I've use the back of a spoon, anything that has a rectangle shape.
Just poke a couple of little rectangle holes in it.
Optionally if you want to you can use use your skewer to make little dots and write the
name of the birthday boy on the front of the truck.
Cut out the side pieces for your truck.
Now there is a couple of pieces that need to be folded
and set on a right angle so just fold those
and put them up against a wall to dry so that they can dry in the
correct position.
Then repeat those pieces for the other side of the truck so you need two of each of those.
To make your screws take a small amount of black fondant, roll it into a ball
and then squash that to form a circle in the size shown. If it is too big just
start again making a smaller ball of fondant.
and roll it out.
Then roll out some more fondant
cut a circle using the back of a straw
and put that on top.
Then take some silver luster dust and a dry paintbrush and just brush it over
to give you your silver screws. They're going to go in the centre of your wheels.
When you are cutting out all of these pieces you want to leave them on the non-stick baking paper
If you try and lift them up and move them you are going to put them out
of shape.
So leave them where they are.
So that you can store them I like to cut around them
and then transfer them to a baking tray so I can put them on top of the
fridge out of the way and they can dry out there.
To make the funnel to go on top of the truck
roll out a snake shape and place it over the template
trim it to size
Poke a piece of spaghetti into the base end of that so it will help it stand up on the
truck
to make the barrel
roll a cylinder in the size shown
and then I just put a little circle on top of that in the middle.
For your cabin
We want to cut strips of fondant
and again if you get the template under the non-stick baking paper and you can
use that as a guide
to make you window frames just using the strips, put them into place
and stick it together
Next for the yellow fondant. Make sure you wash your hands and your rolling pin well so you
don't get any black on it
If you are nor familiar with using fondant or colouring fondant
go to the fondant basics video. If you click on CAKE DECORATING TUTORIALS
in the description below this video
then you'll find the fondant basics one there.
And it shows you how to colour fondant.
I've actually addicts some banana essence to this one too
to give it a bit of flavour.
take the inside wheel rectangle template
and roll it around a piece of paper so that the edges of the rectangle meet.
and then sticky tape
that into place.
Cover that roll of paper with some banking paper and sticky tape that
into place as well.
Roll out your yellow the fondant
And cut out strips in the width of that rectangle.
straighten the edges using a ruler and trim one end straight.
Roll that carefully around
the cylinder that you've just made out of paper.
and once it gets to the meeting let it overlap just a little bit
and then trim off the edges neatly.
You want to stand that upright
dry. To make the top of your truck cut out the rectangle out of the yellow fondant
and mark where you want the circle and the lines to be by gently pushing down
with an object on top of your template
Then remove your template
Cut strips, place them in place and use a ruler to straighten them up.
Use the end of a straw to cut out a circle.
and enlarge the circle to the right size by moving the straw around in a circlular motion.
To make the
back of our dump truck you need to find a box in your cupboard
that is about the size of the template that I have given you.
This weetbix box that I have got here is about right
What we want to do is trim up the box so that the edges
curve around just like they do on the actual truck
So we are going to just
cut it, trim them up and then sticky tape into place.
Now I found under the weight of the fondant this box wasn't quite strong enough. It started to warp a little bit.
It was OK but if you are going to use a weet-bix box I suggest you stuff it with something in
the middle just to give it a bit more strength
Now the box for your truck needs to be about 10cm high.
So this one is a little bit short so what I am going to do is place it on a book.
to rise it up to the right height.
Cover your box with non-stick baking paper.
and your tray as well. Roll out the yellow fondant and cover the box.
You might find it easier to transfer it on the baking paper rather than taking it off.
On the short end of the truck place it around and just gently fold the corner into place
Leave about a 1cm border and trim around
your fondant to make it neat
at the corner then of your long side
leave it going right down to the paper
Up next to the end that you have just done and then trim it up and across in a
straight line as shown
all the way to the other end
granted effort the krona
the impact of that canada an across damning of the sides
and make the alongside match what you've just done on the fast start
using a pizza cutter
make two cuts
at the end as shown and then using your ruler
fold that up over the ruler so that it bends
down if the truck was the right way up.
roll pout some more yellow fondant in the width of your truck
put a little bit of water on your finger and run that over the fondant that is already
there
and place the rectangle of fondant over the truck
pushing into place as you go here I am just using a ruler to flatten it out.
Leave a 5cm strip of fondant on the board and then trim it off and
fold up just a little bit at the end
so that it's sticking up.
Cut two extra pieces of yellow fondant to place along the sides
to give it that 3D
look.
Next cut a strip of fondant
and put it along
the
corner edge of your truck to just where it's bending down.
Place a thicker strip along the top edge of the truck and going around
the back
I'm using a needle medicine dispenser here
just placing a few little circle holes so they look like
rivet holes on the truck, using some more fondant
put a few stripes going down the edge.
after a couple of days the yellow circle should be dry enough to work with
take them off the cylinder
then place them on some grey fondant and cut around that
Roll a snake out of the grey fondant, trim it down
and place it into the middle of the circle
and then roll another snake, trim it down and then cut it in half and put it like a
criss cross in the center of the circle
take one of the screws that you've already made before and put it in the middle
and then push it down gently
It's these sort of details on the cakes that make them look good.
Now that all the details are done.
Let's make the actual cake.
take your template for the bottom layer of cake
and put it in a cake tin. I've got a rectangular cake tin here that can be
resized to any shape I have had it for ages and it's really useful.
I'll see if I can find anyone who currently sells them, if so I will put a link in
the description below the video. If you don't have one of those you can just use
a cardboard box. Make sure you use a box that
isn't
coated in a shiny picture because they have a plastic coating on it so it needs to be just a
plain
box and then make a frame. Doesn't need a base, just the frame tied into place.
You want it to be just slightly bigger
Than your cake template this allows you room to trim off the edges of your cake
and just be left with that nice moist centre piece of chocolate cake
and then line it with baking paper just like I have done with the frame here.
so that the cake mixture can't leak out into the oven
I'm using the same chocolate cake recipe that I always use becsaue it is really
chocolatey and delicious.
if you need the video for that recipe it is already on this channel
when this video finishes if you click on see more videos by How To Cook That
you'll find the chocolate cake recipe there.
Bake it until a knife inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Because it is a large cake I put this one in the centre of the oven and put an empty
baking tray on
a shelf above it. Just to shield the top of it from heat so that the top didn't
burn before the centre was cooked.
Take your cake board template
and cut it out of some really thick cardboard, then I have wrapped it in alfoil so that the
cardboard is not going to absorb the
oil from the cake or the moisture from the cake and go soft.
Stick that into place on the back.
We need the truck to sit off the cake board
So to achieve this I have cut more squares out of the thick cardboard
and stick them together
Then I am attaching that to the bottom of your cake board and sticking it into
place
Your chocolate ganache will be firm when it has just come out of the fridge so whip it up using an
electric mixer
this adds some air but it also softens it
The ganache recipe is on that chocolate cake
video that I referred to already.
Cut your first layer of cake. Use a cake leveler if you have one. If
you don't have one
just put something that's the right
thickness for the layer
and put it just under your knife to guide your knife as you cut so that you get the same
level the whole way through.
put your template on top of the cake and cut it out
put a smear of ganache on the alfoil
and put that first layer of cake into place
cover the top of it in another layer of ganache
and then cut out your next layer of cake using the same method that we used
before.
Put the template on it but right over to one side.
Cut that out and put it into place on top of the piece that you have already done.
Put some ganache over the top of that
for the top of the cabin
Use the piece of the cake that you have already cut some out of
and cut that in two. put it together and piece it together to make
the rectangle that you need for the top of the cabin
Put that lengthwise across
the front of the truck
and then put ganache on top of that.
Next we want to cover all the sides and the front and the back
of the cake in your ganache
I'm using a palette knife to smooth it off. It doesn't have to be perfect because
remember your fondant pieces are already set firm
Check the height of the front of the cake by holding up the fondant front of the cake to it.
if it's not quite tall enough just add a bit more ganache on top.
Then put the front of the cake in place
Now because your ganache is warm and we have just whipped it
it's not going to hold in place straight away it will start to slide so you need to put
something under its to support it while it's setting and once it firms up in the
fridge it will hold there no worries.
if you are serving this cake outside or somewhere very warm
then you might want to poke some spaghetti through the front
into the actual cake just to give it that bit of extra support
put the top of the truck on followed by the sides and the back of the front
section of the truck
Take the rectangle sides and pushed them into the cake on each side to make that bit that
sits above the wheels
To make the windows
put some isomalt into a saucepan and heat it on high heat until it melts
and then tip it into each of the window slots.
if you don't have isomalt you can use normal sugar
If you haven't worked with sugar before in that way
Then there is a video how to make sugar decorations for desserts
Once your windows have set and cooled and they are hard
use your left over isomalt just reheat it
and it's the sides of your cabin pieces into it.
and use it like glue to stick it together into place
Take your final layer of cake. Level the top of the cake
and then using your wheel templates cut out four circles of cake
and then
cut around the centre sections
cut a hole out of each piece of your cake. Place some ganache on the top of the circle
Roll out a thin layer of black fondant using the circle template again
just cut around, leave about a 1cm border
slightly bigger than the circle in your black fondant. Place that over the wheel
Flip it over and repeat that on the other side
Then take a knife and cut a small cross in the centre section right where the
hole is in the wheel
and take the yellow wheel centre that you have already made, put it right in the
middle and then gently push it down into place.
Take some more black fondant
roll out a long strip and cut it to a thickness that is slightly thinner than the
width of your wheels
using your finger put some water on the top of the fondant, not a lot just a little bit
Then roll up your wheel so that it joins at the other side.
Trim it off.
Then I am using a chop stick, anything that you've got in your draw that has a square
shape to it
just make indents around the
edge of your wheel
on the top side
and then again on the base of your wheel just push it to line up
with the indents that you have just made for the tread of your tyre.
Roll out some more black fondant
and cut one edge straight
and put that edge up against the front of the truck
and smooth it over the back part of the truck body.
trim it up using a knife and then use a knife or a ruler to push it into the corners
and smooth it around the bumps that stick out.
Then use your chopstick to make some indents on those side sections
make some more indents on the back of the truck.
take your side pieces and push them into the sides of your cake
so that they sit as shown.
These are going to sit just above your wheel.
roll out a little rectangle of black and place it over the box of ganache
that you can see there
Then take one of your tires
and you might have to push it down a little bit and push it into
place
using some ganache secure your back wheels into place
and take your funnel
and poke it through the hole in the top of yellow fondant
To make the dirt you are going to need two packets of oreos
Place them in the blender
the middles need to stay in. don't take them out just put the whole biscuit in the blender
and blend them up. To make the rocks that go in the back of the truck
use some of your chunks of left over cake
just use your fingers to break bits off them to make them look a bit more rock shaped
rather than slices of off cut cake
dip them in some warmed ganache and then just put it in the fridge to set.
Add some ganache to the back of the truck
and then put your tray carefully into place.
Add in your rocks and some dirt, put some more rocks on top, little sprinkle of dirt
on there. If you want you can add some rock candy jewels
and some geodes. I will do a video on how to do rock candy with large crystals at a
later date for you.
use a small amount of ganache to put the little barrel in place in the middle
and the cabin with your windows
in place on the front of the truck.
Finally put a thin layer of ganache over your whole cake board and sprinkle it with your
oreo dirt
Put a couple of rocks on the cake board as well
and some chocolate popping sugar
traffic cones. Don't forget to add some tracks behind your truck
and a little bit of dirt on your back wheels
and you're ready for your birthday party
[singing - happy birthday]
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hooray
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