Coolest Car Birthday Cake 33

by Lucia B.
(Fayetteville, AR)

Homemade Car Birthday Cake

My friend Amber sells cars and her favorite color is red so it was no surprise when she requested a red car birthday cake.

I had to get creative because I couldn't find any cakes that were a rear view, which is what I had in mind. I baked two 9x13 cakes, one white and one chocolate, then laid them out side by side. I made a batch of butter cream frosting using the butter cream frosting recipe on wilton.com and used nearly an entire little bottle of Wilton's red gel food coloring to get a good red. A second batch of frosting was used to make white, blue, black and orange for details.

The cake was carved with a steak knife to look like the back of a car, I used two small pieces of trimmed cake as tires. I used a #22 star tip and decorated the cake, laying out the red first, then filling in the back window with light blue. I piped black frosting for details and used a basket weave tip upside down to lay white frosting out for the license plate and bumper sticker. I used a smaller star tip to fill in the tail lights.

The cake was fun to make, and seemed to drive right off the plates!