Anyone know where I can buy a digger cake tin?

helen81_2 · 12 March 2006 at 5:48PM

Hello,

Im a mother of 2 kids,on a tight budget at the moment.

My son is 3 soon and Im not bad at cake making (or at least noone has owned up to not liking my cakes!!)...so..I am gonna make a birthday cake! :T

What my little un is really into is diggers..does anyone know where I can get a digger shaped cake tin/mould..I have looked all over the internet with no luck!

Also,digger party plates,ect...??

Any help would be brill, thanks in advance xx helen xx

black-saturn · 12 March 2006 at 5:54PM

I cant find a digger one but if you type "cake tin hire" in Google it will give you loads of places that do cake tins. Then its a process of looking at every one till you find a digger.

Iona_Penny · 12 March 2006 at 5:57PM

Yeah try hiring from cake decoration shop etc. I am hiring tins for OH 50th b'day next weekend and to hire a 5 and an 0 is £10 deposit per tin ( and they take a cheque they return to you ) an d 50p per day, so get your timing right and it could cost you 50p!

black-saturn · 12 March 2006 at 6:15PM

Or this:

helen81_2 · 12 March 2006 at 9:00PM

I like that digger one...was that homemade?? If so..please share exactly how you made it look so fab!!? It looks v.complicated!

Katgoddess · 13 March 2006 at 1:33AM

http://www.securecakestore.com/acatalog/copy_of_copy_of_Digger.html

You could alway make a rectangle cake and use a stencil or something to ice the cake with.

Becles · 13 March 2006 at 8:46AM

This is a bought one but you could recreate it!

What I would do is........

bake a cake in a loaf tun.

Cut about a third off the end and place it on top to make the cab.

Cover in yellow roll out icing.

Make the wheels and other black bits from black roll out icing (if you wanted to cheat for the wheels, you could use liquorice rolls)

Cover breadsticks in yellow roll out icing for the hod carrier supports.

Use white roll out icing for the windows.

Use liquorice torpedos for the lights above the window, and gravel like sweets or dried beans in the hod carrier.

Sarahsaver · 13 March 2006 at 12:29PM

You could use half a swiss roll halved lengthways for the scoop section, flakes or panda liquorice bars for the arms of the scoop. I would make a large square then cut and stick until i had the digger shape. I get ready to roll icing for that kind of thing, you can paint food colouring on to it rather than trying to mix the colour in to the icing.
Oh has made a dalek, nemo, a flower and a thunderbird for my kids

i think hes more patient and likes the fiddling about. I just like cakes to look like cakes LOL;)
For rubble you could be a really 'hardcore' OS (terrible pun - geddit?) and make some honeycomb and break it up into rubble;)
Watch it with the colouring, ds2 had a thomas cake (bought)a couple of years ago and it made his poo green!

helen81_2 · 13 March 2006 at 3:58PM

thanks for these ideas..will have a think.

My son had a bought thomas cake last year..can't remember any poo being green though!! :rotfl:

mollymunchkin · 13 March 2006 at 4:44PM

For a digger themed party try these ideas:

Cover the table with a yellow table cloth and put a thin(8 to 12 inches wide)strip of black down the center for the "road". Then paint white dashes down the center for the center line.

Make small construction signs and set them along the side of the "road".
Make a mobile of all different construction vehicles, such as cement mixer, dump truck, and digger. Printed them off the computer and glue to some colourful paper, cut around the images, and hung them with string from the ceiling at different levels right above the table

Make simple construction signs with orange fluorescent tagboard. Cut out diamond shapes and outlined them black and wrote with black marker things like: road construction ahead, detour, and men at work. Hang them up all around the party area.

I couldn't find any digger plates but why not use plain yellow or black ones. This site http://www.partydelights.co.uk/themes/range_bobthebuilder.asp has Bob the Builder stuff (nearerst theme to diggers I could find) and yellow hard hats which could be used for prizes, etc.

Have fun!

bektoria · 13 March 2006 at 7:29PM

Have you tried looking on ebay ? I recently done a pirate theme for my 4yr old and got most of the items from it. There are sellers who have shops so you should be able to get plates, cups etc. You may even find a cake tin and you could then sell it on when you have finished !

Bek

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