Fire Truck Cake 2.0

[Isolder74]

Behold my latest cake. This was made for the fire station near my house.

Pictures of the truck. It measures 26" 6" and was 5" tall. The firefighters loved it but I only got one pic with them as they got a call right after the group pic. As a side note a son of one of the firefighters was there for his third birthday party and he thought it was the neatest thing and tried to hug it.

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Step one


Step 2 & 3


Crumb coat on/


First try on the ladder


Almost done!

(note the name of the pic. Ladder that (finally) works)





Finished truck.


























Fire truck on the bumper of the fire truck.




Firefighters posing with it.

The one with the really big grin is the dad of the 3 year old.

walk around film of the truck.

Comments are welcome.

[Rutskarn]

Pratty coo', pratty coo'.

[BisectedBrioche]

A 3 year old tried to hug a cake?

[Mando Knight]

One problem: It doesn't change into a Giant Robot Cake.

[Isolder74]

A 3 year old tried to hug a cake?

He thought it was a toy, not a cake.

[Isolder74]

One problem: It doesn't change into a Giant Robot Cake.

I wonder how you would make that work? The truck itself was a pain enough already!

[The Neoclassic]

That looks awesome and delicious. Well done!

[Isolder74]

Something I should mention. When I dropped off the cake they told me that they were not able to get a cake for the son. As I should have already mentioned, not only was my cake a day late it was done 6 hours after I had planned when the first day fell through because I had to make more cake. I made their day and that of the little boy as well.

[Oblivion]

Great cake! If may say one constructive comment though: your icing is a little bit messy. By this, I mean that the finition is not clean. I think there is a lot of potential though, and if you practiced your icing and piping skills a bit more, you'd make mad cakes!

[Isolder74]

I only wish I had more time to have let the buttercream set and then be able to smooth it to get the frosting squared and glass smooth. Sadly I found during the stacking phase that I didn't have enough cake to make it tall enough as a pair of the cakes didn't rise as much as the others so I had to make more cake cutting into my decorating time. I then had several problems getting the ladder to work killing even more time. So near the end a few of the details got rushed, like the grill.

One thing that I do like about making a fire truck is that licorice sticks make perfect fire hoses. I made sure to use ones that I'd eat plain. Jolly Ranchers also make great lights for the top.

[Isolder74]

Posted by Isolder74's Assistant cake maker.

The Fire Truck cake came together well in the end. This is our best cake (I helped make some of the others too) but is was not without trials. The baking was tricky. The night before there was rain and the cakes rose kind of uneven. The next day we made more and they did not rise as much. There was a gravity problem with the truck ladder. the royal icing proved to not harden very well so the ladder kept falling apart. We got it to stay together for long enough to lift up and try to put it on but the cookies fell apart and the royal icing came unglued. The ladder snapped into many pieces and disaster. Isolder was going to give up on a ladder. Always an optimist I suggested building it on the cake and we repaired the broken cookies on the cake. This is the ladder that you see on the cake. then while looking at the cake with the ladder on it the front cab now looked squashed. (since this was Ladder three we were building the squashed cab is rather unsettling) Looking at one of the scrap pieces cut out from earlier isolder discovered it was perfect for the top of the cab and even cut with the right angle for the windshield. This went on and the cake sculpting was finished. Iced and decorated this was a joy to make and deliver.

The cake was delivered in my car (a 74 Duster) to the fire station. It takes two or three people to carry this cake so we recruited the firefighters to help get it out of the car. Unknown to us, it was one of the firefighters kid's 3rd birthday that day. The September 11 cake one day late proved to be the right day to deliver it. We also made this cake to honor this station for being one of the first responders to a five alarm fire that destroyed and entire condo complex in Ogden They fought this fire for 8 hours and the building was a total loss.

All in all this was a successful cake.

Thank you
(he's the chef) The assistant

[babyishcare]

Frost area between cab and back of engine with grey frosting. Place remaining grey frosting in small resealable plastic bag; cut small tip off 1 bottom corner of bag. Frost remaining fire engine with red frosting. Pipe on windscreen, windows and ladder with white frosting. Attach gumdrops for headlights, taillights and on top of engine. For wheels, pipe 1cm circles of grey frosting on centre of each cookie for hubcap and attach to cake. Attach licorice coils on sides of cake for hoses.