Digger and dumper cake? Help!

[megandraper]

ds is about to be 5 and has just announced he wants a chocolate 'digger and dumper' cake. Help! I am not very good at decorating cakes and don't know where to start!

Two cube shaped cakes, one big to be the digger with a smaller one next to it for the dumper. Biscuits as the wheels. You could either use a yellow rolled icing or a yellow frosting on it. Windows made of rolled icing. Scoop a dent out of the 'digger' and have crushed Oreo mud over flowing..

Or do an ordinary round/square cake, cover in butter cream then crushed oreos/ bourbons /digestives (earth vs sand!) and place toy diggers and dump trucks on top.

When DS wanted this, I did a tray of Rocky Road as the ground and got cheap digger and dumper toys from Poundland to go on top. I added a pile of "chocolate raisin rubble" for the digger to dog, the dumper was full of Smaties, there was a half built was made out of bricks of chopped up twixes, a couple of puddles of lime jelly in little dishes sunk into the Rocky Road before it set and some fondant wellies and hard hat.

I'm sure I've seen one like this recently (rumages in history list) - here

On you lot are brilliant! I am enthused now!

Oh not on....

Have a look on cake central - always great for inspiration.cakecentral.com/gallery/view/search/?searches%5B%5D=&searches1%5B%5D=dumper&searches%5B%5D=digger&album=-&search_user= also search excavator. If you do really struggle then use lego toys to add the 3D effect.