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Digger cake

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You don’t need to be an engineer to make this impressive construction site chocolate birthday cake, just a few toys, some KitKat bars, sweeties and creative flair

You don’t need to be an engineer to make this impressive construction site birthday cake, just a few toys, some chocolate coated wafer bars and a little creative flair

Ingredients

Refrigerated
  • 3 Eggs, large
Baking & Spices
  • 2 tsp Baking powder
  • 50 g Cocoa powder
  • 2 tbsp Cocoa powder
  • 300 g Icing sugar
  • 250 g Muscovado sugar, light
  • 250 g Self-raising flour
Dairy
  • 1 3/4 250g pack Butter, unsalted
  • 2 tbsp Milk
  • 50 ml Whole milk
  • 150 g Yogurt, whole natural
Other
  • large round cake board or a large flat plate, about 13inches/33cm
  • 1 Drinking straw
  • 9 four-finger KitKat bars
  • marker pen
  • 2 Plastic diggers and one dumper truck, or similar
  • handful Smarties or other coloured sweets
  • sticky tape
  • 1 tsp vanilla paste or extract
  • 10 X 5cm rectangle of yellow cardboard
Digger Cake Dirt digger cake. Chocolate buttercream and chocolate cookie dirt. Chocolate rocks around the edging. Chocolate sponge boulders...

Digger Cake Dirt digger cake. Chocolate buttercream and chocolate cookie dirt. Chocolate rocks around the edging. Chocolate sponge boulders...

How to make a 3D digger cake [Excavator cake]

We call them diggers, some people call them excavators, Richard Scarry called them power shovels. Whatever you call them, if you want to make a cake like the one below then you're at the right place. You will need: Flat serving platter - mine measured 33 cm x 33 cm (13 inch x 13 inch) 2 x 20cm square cakes Yellow Icing - I made a double quantity of Butter Icing from Edmonds cookbook, but had a lot left over White Icing - only need a little, I set aside about 1/4 cup of the butter icing…