Digger Cake Decorating Set
Our most popular cake, and honestly one of the easiest to pull off. If your kid stops dead at every building site, this is the one.
The Digger Cake Decorating Set gives you a sheet of edible designs with a detailed cab and driver, plus a paper cut out digger arm. There are two driver options, so pick yours when you add to cart. Bake it (yes, packet mix counts), ice it, pop the pieces on, and stand back.
Please note: cake mix, icing and lollies are not included.
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What's in the Digger Cake Decorating Set?
- One sheet of edible paper designs with the cab, windows and driver.
- A paper cut out digger arm.
- Your choice of two driver options.
- Step-by-step Digger Cake guide.
Choosing your driver
Select your driver from the dropdown before adding to cart. Both come on the same style of sheet.
The digger arm
The arm is paper, so it's light enough to stand up on the cake. Remove it before cutting.
What do I need to make the Digger Cake?
Shape Tins
- 1 x Rectangle Shape Tin
- 1 x Cylinder Shape Tin
- 1 x Cube Shape Tin
Ingredients
- 3 packets of cake mix (about 36 serves, based on 12 serves per packet mix and how generous your slices are)
- Icing, coloured yellow
- TV Snacks, a Crunchie bar and jubes
A crushed Crunchie makes brilliant rubble around the digger.
Digger Cake recipe and step-by-step guide
Bake
One rectangle, one cylinder and one cube, from three packet mixes.
Build
Stack and secure the shapes as shown in the guide. It comes together quicker than you'd expect.
Decorate
Ice yellow, add the cab and driver, set the arm in place and pile Crunchie rubble around the base.
Decorating your Digger Cake
Tracks and wheels
TV Snacks lined up along the base make convincing tracks. Jubes work as lights.
Make it a building site
Crushed biscuits for dirt, a toy road cone or two, and a few mini diggers parked around the board.
Timing
Bake the day before. Assemble and decorate on the morning of the party. Add the Crunchie rubble last so it stays crunchy.
Here's the colour this one calls for. Add it while you're here.
Or add another colour
Want the full step-by-step guide?
Buy this set and unlock the full Digger guide, with every step to bake, build and decorate your cake.
- How to bake
- How to build
- How to decorate
Your unlock code is emailed as soon as you order, and it comes in your delivery too.
See the Digger Cake Come to Life
From freshly baked shapes to a birthday centrepiece.
An Easy Digger Cake You Can Make at Home
Simple cake shapes, finishing details and a little imagination.
You don't need a digger-shaped tin or hours of sculpting a cake from scratch. Shape Tins uses simple cake shapes that come together to create the Digger Cake, and the Decorating Set adds the details that give it character.
Tins this cake uses
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Cylinder (used in this cake)
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Cube (used in this cake)
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Dome
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Rectangle (used in this cake)
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Round + Ring
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Bake
Bake your cake in the Cylinder, Cube and Rectangle Shape Tins, ready to build your digger.
- 2
Build
Follow the step-by-step guide to bring your cake shapes together.
- 3
Decorate
Add your icing, then bring your digger to life with your Decorating Set.
- 4
Celebrate
Bring out your finished Digger Cake, take plenty of photos and enjoy sharing it at the party.
Ways to Make a Digger Birthday Cake
| Your options | Approx. cost (AUD) | Pros | Cons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supermarket cake | $25 to $40 | Grab and go. | No 3D digger, just a picture or topper. |
| Custom cake shop digger | $150 to $600+ | Professional detail. | Vehicles with arms are complex, so expect a premium. |
| Scratch-baked and carved | $60 to $100* | Fully your own design. | Getting the cab and arm right takes time. |
| DIY kit, disposable tins | $90 to $100 | Everything supplied. | Throw-away tins, so you pay full price again. |
| Shape Tins | About $49 to $59 per cake* | Our most popular design, and reusable tins for every cake after. | You need Shape Tins to get started. |
*Indicative estimates. Shape Tins figure is the $33.95 set plus $15 to $25 ingredients, using tins you own.
One Set of Shape Tins. So Many Cakes to Make.
Your Digger Cake might be the first cake you make with Shape Tins, but it doesn't have to be the last!
Instead of buying a different novelty cake tin for every birthday, Shape Tins offers reusable baking shapes you can combine in different ways to create many cake designs. With the Complete Set, you'll have all five Shape Tins to explore everything from 3D animal and character cakes to number cakes and other birthday creations.
Buy the tins once. Keep creating with them again and again.
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Digger Cake FAQs
Is the digger cake hard to make?
It's one of our easiest. Three cake shapes, a yellow ice and the pieces go on like stickers.
Which driver should I choose?
Both are fun. Pick the one your child will recognise or love most.
How many does the digger cake serve?
About 36 serves from three packet mixes (based on 12 serves per packet mix, depending on how generous your slices are).
Can I make an excavator in a different colour?
Yes. Yellow is classic, but orange or green diggers look great too.
What else can I make with the same tins?
The Rectangle and Cube also make our Bulldozer, Rubbish Truck and Ambulance cakes, so the next birthday is sorted.
