Bus Cake Decorating Set
The wheels on the bus go round and round, all through the party. This 3D bus cake is two rectangle cakes and a sheet of edible designs, with no piping bag in sight.
The Bus Cake Decorating Set is one sheet of edible paper designs that turns a plain cake into a bus. Bake your cake (packet mix? absolutely fine by us), ice it, then cut the pieces out and pop them on.
Please note: cake mix, icing, food colouring and lollies are not included.
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What's in the Bus Cake Decorating Set?
- One sheet of edible paper designs: the bus front with driver, doors, passenger windows, stripes and a BUS number plate.
- Step-by-step Bus Cake guide.
What do I need to make the Bus Cake?
Shape Tins
- 2 x Rectangle bakes (one tin, baked twice, is fine)
Ingredients
- 3 packets of cake mix (about 36 serves, based on 12 serves per packet mix and how generous your slices are)
- Icing, coloured blue
- Wagon Wheels and Sesame Snaps
Bus Cake recipe and guide
Bake two rectangles from three packet mixes and stack them as the guide shows. Ice, add the edible details, then Sesame Snap windows and Wagon Wheel wheels.
Decorating your Bus Cake
Pick your bus
Blue is our classic, yellow makes a school bus, and red gives it a double decker feel.
Windows and passengers
The edible passenger windows go on the side, and Sesame Snaps add extra windows. Pop a few jelly babies up against them for more passengers.
Timing
Bake the day before, decorate on the morning.
Here are the colours this one calls for. Add them while you're here.
Want the full step-by-step guide?
Buy this set and unlock the full Bus 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 Bus Cake Come to Life
From freshly baked shapes to a birthday centrepiece.
An Easy Bus Cake You Can Make at Home
Simple cake shapes, finishing details and a little imagination.
You don't need a bus-shaped tin or hours of sculpting a cake from scratch. Shape Tins uses simple cake shapes that come together to create the Bus Cake, and the Decorating Set adds the details that give it character.
Tins this cake uses
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Cylinder
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Cube
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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 Rectangle Shape Tin, ready to build your bus.
- 2
Build
Follow the step-by-step guide to bring your cake shapes together.
- 3
Decorate
Add your icing, then bring your bus to life with your Decorating Set.
- 4
Celebrate
Bring out your finished Bus Cake, take plenty of photos and enjoy sharing it at the party.
Why Make Your Bus Cake with Shape Tins?
Bus cakes from a cake shop are a custom job, and supermarket cakes are flat. Two Shape Tins rectangles stack into a proper 3D bus, and the same tin makes the Fire Engine, Plane and Butter Squishy cakes later. After the tins, each cake is just a decorating set plus ingredients, roughly $42 to $52.
One Set of Shape Tins. So Many Cakes to Make.
Your Bus 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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Bus Cake FAQs
Can I make a yellow school bus?
Yes, just ice it yellow. It's a great first day of school cake too.
Do I need two Rectangle tins?
No, bake twice in one tin.
How many does the bus cake serve?
About 36 serves from three packet mixes (based on 12 serves per packet mix, depending on how generous your slices are).
What are the wheels made of?
Wagon Wheels biscuits. They're the right size and kids love them.
How is the bus built?
Two rectangle cakes stack into one tall bus, and the guide shows you exactly how. The decorating set is all edible paper.
