How do I make a 3-D Firetruck. So many of you on here have these great 3-D firetrucks. I tried one today and it looked like crap! When you carve it from a sheet cake how do you not get crumbs in the frosting! How? How do you do it! I need some real help my husband is a firefighter and he wants this cake for his birthday in 2 weeks! Please give me any adivise you can! Thanks again!
If you search on here for 3-D firetrucks you will find pictures and posts on how people have done them.
I did one just a few weeks ago. I don't have the picture up yet, but it actually wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be.
What I did was baked a half sheet and then stacked 3 equal lengths and widths on top of each other. I then froze it. I cut out all the parts middle, back, slant for windows and bumpers. I then did a very thin crumb coat for the entire thing...then put it in the freezer again to get it very cold. I iced the cake in red and other colors for decor. I stood the entire cake, on a board I made with supports, where the tires would be. I made the tires out of cake that I smashed, molded, and formed into balls. I did not do a ladder on the top b/c I did not have time. But if I were you I would make the ladder out of royal icing..make several for breakage. Good Luck! I hope this helped!
Joe
I made one of these out of three 9x13 cakes. I just uploaded my sketch/template of the truck I drew up and did. The finished truck is below.
Sketch:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=882203
I just did this one last Sat for a cookout (my hubby is also a ff and as you probably know, they like to cookout often!). Mine was nothing too fancy but it sure was easy! Look in my photos for a picture of it. Here's how:
I baked a sheet cake (12X1
, cooled completely and leveled. Then I cut it lengthwise and stacked it. (I used the almond sourcream cake recipe here on CC and filled half of the cake with BC and the other half with fresh raspberry filling).
For the board, I used 3 boards taped together and then wrapped. Then I cut floral foam and wrapped it to match the board and hot glued it to the board in three places to support the length of the cake. I then cut another board and doubled it up, taped and wrapped it to place the truck on. After sitting the cake on that board, I hot glued this to the supports.
Back to the cake:
So after cutting length wise and filling it, I cut a notch in the front/center for the grey part. I then frosted the truck with the correct colors. The crumbs can be done either very carefuly buy spreading a THICK layer of frosting in one direction to prevent pulling crumbs up and then thinning the layer of icing OR, put a thin crumb layer on and then frost the cake as usuall.
To spearate the colors/lines, I used wax paper! I frosted the cake red where appropriate and then layed the was paper on the red and frosted the other parts white or greay. This will give nice neat lines. I then used BC to add details. The wheels were chocolate donuts that I frosted and then smoothed with black BC. Voila! A Firetruck! Any other ??'s just PM me! Hope this helps!
How do I make a 3-D Firetruck. So many of you on here have these great 3-D firetrucks. I tried one today and it looked like crap! When you carve it from a sheet cake how do you not get crumbs in the frosting! How? How do you do it! I need some real help my husband is a firefighter and he wants this cake for his birthday in 2 weeks! Please give me any adivise you can! Thanks again!
Kiddiekakes did a 3-D firetruck a while back. You can PM her and ask.
How do I make a 3-D Firetruck. So many of you on here have these great 3-D firetrucks. I tried one today and it looked like crap! When you carve it from a sheet cake how do you not get crumbs in the frosting! How?
Fondant! 
Bake, fill, stack, carve, ice, chill for 15 minutes, cover with fondant. Add accents. Take pictures. Marvel. Serve. 
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