Coolest Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake

Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake

This Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake is the cake I made for my son’s 2nd birthday. I used a 16 in round pan and the Wilton Lightning McQueen pan. The checkered pattern on the sides of the round base are black and white Satin Ice fondant. The road is also fondant. Everything else is colored buttercream … Read more

Coolest Lightning Mcqueen Cake

Homemade Lightning Mcqueen Cake

I started off by baking 2 9×13 white cakes and one 8×8 white cake. I then stacked the 2 9x13s on top of each other and filled it with mocha frosting. Then, I stacked the square cake on top of that towards the back of the cake. Then I looked at my son’s toy Lightning … Read more

Cool Homemade Lightning Mcqueen Cake Design

Homemade Lightning Mcqueen Cake Design

I made this Homemade Lightning Mcqueen Cake Design for my son’s 3rd Birthday. He is Cars mad. I had never made or decorated a cake before, so wasn’t hoping for much! I used one of his Cars toys to copy, bought some coloured icing, and here is the result. Needless to say he was over … Read more

Coolest Lightning McQueen Cake

Homemade Lightning McQueen Cake

After looking at the amazing cakes on this website, I became inspired to use marshmallow fondant after being discouraged to use fondant after a really bad first time with sugar fondant. Marshmallow fondant is amazing. Since it was my first time with mm, I am sure next time will be better. The Lightning McQueen cake! … Read more

Cool Homemade Cars Birthday Cake Using the Wilton Cars Cake Pan

This Cars Birthday Cake is the first cake I’ve made. I made this for my son’s 3rd birthday since he loves Disney Cars. I used the Wilton Cars cake pan and used fondant for the checker board background. For the car I used buttercream frosting. I got the inspiration from the other cakes on this … Read more

Coolest Lightning McQueen from Cars Cake Decorations 9

For my sons 2nd birthday we did a racecar theme and with the new movie CARS out, we decided to go with Lighting McQueen. He took three sheet cakes to make. Then I cut them out as shown on the picture. I made the red icing about two days ahead of time to give the … Read more

Coolest Lightning McQueen Cake Photos and Tips 2

I used three boxes of yellow cake and baked two loaf cakes and one sheet cake for this Lightning McQueen cake. I chilled each cake and cut the two loaf cakes in the shape of cars. I used fresh buttercream frosting which I colored with the Disney Cars color gels packaged by Wilton. I used … Read more