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CARS Birthday Cake
by June Juan
(White Hall, AR)
Alexander turned 5 years old on June 27th 2009. He loves CARS, especially Disney Pixar CARS the movie:)
Did research and found many ideas on CARS the movie, mostly, Lightning McQueen's cake, where one can buy the shaped pan at Wilton's.
I like to challenge myself and have decided again that I should make the cake from scratch.
I decided to make the desert race scene with Doc Hudson and Lightning McQueen. With the rest of the Radiator Springs gang watched them race.
The "plateau" was a strawberry muffin, cut in half, together with brown and yellow cake pieces, secured with two wooden skewers stuck in the middle, to hold them in place otherwise the "plateau" would topple over:)
Brown with yellow hues of food colorings for the desert look, used buttercream icings for inside and outside of cake. I made two layers so the cake would look higher and better presentation.
Finished it with decorative pieces like plastic desert bushes/plants and rock candies "gravel". Alexander's name as Alex, his name laid out using the remaining rock candies.
Bought 2 sets of CARS the movie diecast cars, the gang "perched" on the "cliff", the upper and lower levels, looking down and cheering at the race.
Guido and Luigi on ground level, in their racing apparels, waving off the racing flags (flag of Italy, everything Guido thinks has to be of European racing circuit and Ferraris come from Italy and Luigi's fave phrase "PITSTOP"..lol.
I made the cake on a smaller scale enough for a family of 5 persons. There are still plenty of yummy cake leftovers:)
Check out the front and back pics of the cake. For an added touch, I placed a "curious tractor" beside the cake:)
