Cool Homemade Lightning McQueen Cars Cake

I found that I was quite good at making novelty cakes so when a friend asked if could create a character cake I jumped to the challenge. I looked for a picture on the internet for a cars character to get an idea of what to do.

The cake is a plain sponge filled with strawberry jam cut the shape of the car and covered with jam and then marzipan. I used red coloured ready to roll icing for the main of the car, marzipan and icing for the wheels. I was then a bit unsure what to do for the designs on the car, I’ve seen some people use prints stuck on, etc., but I wanted the cake to be completely edible so I rolled out some white icing, cut the shape and let it dry a little food colouring was used as paint for the designs.

I thought the homemade Lightning McQueen Cars cake needed to be shiny so I used glucose syrup warmed with a little water and painted it on with a brush. Hundreds and thousands were used around the car.

All in all I think the whole thing turned out well and people shouldn’t be scared to have a go, if you have a bit of artistic talent and a bit of patience its good fun.

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