Tank Cake

My husband requested a Tank Cake for his birthday recently and I was happy to oblige. After finding some inspirations from cakes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, I came up with this: The idea of trying to make the tank green camouflage stressed me out, so I decided to make a desert-colored brown tank, which was super simple! Though my husband said it looks more like a German tank in style.


Here’s what I did:

1. I made two 9x13” chocolate cakes. The first cake I cut in half and trimmed off the sides like below:
2. I layered the two rectangles with frosting in between.
3. Then, with the other 9x13” cake I cut out two squares about 3 inches wide. I layered those on top of each other and put that on top of the cake to make the turret. I put them at an angle to make the tank look like it was turning to aim.
4. I added a little bit of chocolate frosting to white frosting to make a tan color and frosted the whole cake. Then, on the sides, I used chocolate frosting. 
5. I put Oreo cookies on the side to make the wheels and used small Hershey’s bars to make the tracks.
6. Then, I cut a dowel to the length I wanted for the gun and shoved that into the cake. I covered it in frosting so it would match the tank.
7. And, that was it! Now both of my boys want tank cakes for their birthdays too.

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