This Cars Birthday Cake design was done with the frozen transfer method. You can find any design you like online, or from a coloring book. There are many sites that offer free coloring book pages to print out and these are wonderful for making childrens’ cake designs. I found this design online. You take a … Read more
I made this Homemade Tow Mater 3rd Birthday Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. Tow Mater was made from two 9 x 13 pound cake loaves. Pound cake is denser and easier to carve and use for shaped 3D cakes. I froze both loaves. I then cut one loaf to use for the cab and … Read more
We made this Mater birthday cake for my son’s 2nd birthday and it was our first attempt with rolled fondant. It was well worth the end result and a little bit of trail and error. The cake is a box cake and any icing used is “decorators icing”. We started with a car cake pan … Read more
This Tow Mater Cake is my favorite cake that I have made so far. It was for a cousin’s birthday party and they requested a mater cake. I had never attempted to make a 3d cake and figured now was as good as time as any and I was very proud of the results. I … Read more
I made this Cars cake for my husbands grandfather’s 75th birthday. He loves the movie Cars and Mater is his favorite character. To get the shape for my cakes I either draw out a pattern/template (on butcher paper) or find a clip art picture on the internet. You can enlarge pictures in several different programs … Read more
This Tow Mater Birthday Cake is a hand sculpted cake (no mold), covered in fondant, hand painted (no airbrush) with gum-paste and hard candy details. This was my first attempt at sculpting a vehicle and was also the most detailed cake I have done as far as the sculpting goes. I did not use any … Read more
I started this Tow Mater Cake Idea with a chocolate 13 x 9 cake. After it was cooled and chilled I cut in half length wise. On half I cut a little curve off on end for the front of the truck and then iced the top of this piece. The other half I cut … Read more
I used two loaf pans for this cars cake. One was a little smaller than the other. I shaped the cakes and then frosted with buttercream then I used fondant to cover the whole thing. I airbrushed the sides and hand painted the back. The rope is made of fondant.I cut gumdrops for the parking … Read more
I made this Tow Mater Birthday Cake for a friend’s son’s birthday party. My fiance’ recommended me and I was able to do whatever I wanted as long as it was within their “Cars” (Disney) theme. So this is what I surprised them with. Now they have me do a cake for them every year! … Read more
My son wanted a Tow Mater Birthday Cake so I used this site and took ideas from all of the Mater cakes posted on here to come up with my own. I used two Betty Crocker cake mixes and baked them both in a loaf pan. I trimmed both cakes so that they were level … Read more
My hubby helped on this one. I took the Wiltons really big sheet cake pan and that takes two cake mixes plus another 8″round, baked it and then I cut to the shape I needed it to be for a Cars cake. One half I used for the back and then the other half I … Read more
