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Coolest Lightning McQueen Cake 87
by Patrick
(Rogers, Arkansas)
Homemade Lightning McQueen Cake
My boy (Kent Michael) is turning two and loves the movie Cars and Lightning McQueen especially. So I researched and found out how to make the marshmallow fondant and tried my hand at cake making/ decorating. This Lightning McQueen Cake is not perfect by any means and my wife finally had to stop me from "fixing" it and "touching it up" or I would still be working on it.
I just used the moist yellow cake mix on the bottom 13x9 layer then put butter cream icing on top of that layer and put the other 13x9 on top of that and started shaping. Then I rolled out my fondant in sheets and sculpted and played until I ended up with the main car body. Then I mixed up the different batches of color for the lightning bolts, lights, and wheels, etc. then just cut them out with a knife or pizza cutter and applied.
It was a blast to make and my boy would just stare at it for a long time then whisper "awesome". My biggest problem was having to re-do the bumper three or four times because when I turned my back Kent Michael had eaten big chunks of it. I want to say that all the cakes on this site gave me the motivation to give it a try, so thanks to all of you guys/ girls.
The kitchen clean up was not fun, I tend to create in chaos and don't take off my blinders until I'm done and wow....what a mess.
