I made this Lightning Mcqueen Disney Car cake for a four year old boy. The cake was chocolate with vanilla buttercream. The car was placed on a 1/4 sheet of smoothed buttercream, and frosted with buttercream-piped stars. The letters, car tires, eyes, lightning bolt and stars were fondant.
I made this cake for my friend’s son for his 2nd birthday. I wanted to use the character cake pan, because he is so detailed – but I knew it would not be big enough. So I used a 14 -inch round 2-layer cake for the base, then used the Wilton character cake pan for … Read more
My son, Krige, wanted a Cars cake for his 5th birthday. He is a perfectionist and I knew that he wouldn’t be satisfied with a “look-a-like” Lightning McQueen “want to be cake” – it had to be perfect. The only way was to get the shape right, therefore I hired a Lightning McQueen shaped pan … Read more
This Lightening McQueen birthday cake was my second fondant cake. I made this cake for a friend’s daughter’s 3rd birthday. I am not the best at modelling so I got a coloring book picture of Lightening Mcqueen, drew a picture for my size cake, then rolled out the different colors to match the panels on … Read more
My sister-in-law and I just love baking cakes for our children’s birthdays. After doing a few birthdays, we finally came to the conclusion that this cake was the most gorgeous. We made this cake for my baby boy who turned three. We got a lot of ideas from this site and here is how we … Read more
This lightning McQueen cake was relatively simple to do but took me lots of time. I used my son’s Lightning McQueen radio as a guide for this project. I cooked three 9X13 cakes. Then I cut it to match McQueen shape. I used a fourth cake (chocolate) to cut the wheels. I had trouble for … Read more
Firstly, you shouldn’t be listening to any advice I give. I don’t make cakes as such. I’m a 30 year old Australian Dad, who just makes his kids their cakes. I have no training and possibly no idea when it comes to baking. In the past I have searched the net for a cake recipe … Read more
My son loved the Cars movie so I made this cake for his third birthday. This is a Wiltons Lightning McQueen cake pan which is very usefull for making Car birthday cakes. I used decorating tips #3 for outline, # 16 for majority of vehicle and #21 for windows. I frosted the car in white … Read more
This Lightning McQueen cake used three Duncan Hines cake mixes. I baked two vanillas in a large rectangular pan and one chocolate in the Wilton Cars pan. The large cake was trimmed flat and frosted white with homemade buttercream icing. I placed the Cars cake on top of the rectangle cake in the center and … Read more
I made this Lightning McQueen Cake for Sebastian’s 3rd birthday. I baked a vanilla cake approx. 40 x 50cm x 6cm high. I cut two rectangular shapes, one smaller than the other and stacked the smaller one on top. Using a serrated knife I cut off bits and created curves to get the basic shape … Read more
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 … Read more
I made this Lightning Mcqueen Cake for my son Rehaan’s second birthday. He loves Cars and this car especially. So we decided on having a race car party and I decided to bake a red velvet cake to match the color of the cake. There were almost 50 people invited for the party. So I … Read more