I baked a Lightning McQueen cake and cupcakes for a 4 year old toddlers birthday party. I made a spongecake which I carved and covered in a red fondant with all the trimmings. I also made cupcakes with the racing number on for each child that came to the party. I did it overnight. I … Read more
I made this Lightening McQueen birthday cake with 3 cakes total. Two regular long cakes for base wrapped in red fondant. The third cake I cut and used for top of car. I always buy my own Wilton Fondant from Michaels and make my own colors. I have the Wilton color box, and it has everything I need! … Read more
For my son’s fourth birthday he wanted a Lighting McQueen cake. After baking a couple Betty Crocker box cake mixes in two 9×11 pans, I allowed them to cool, wrapped them in plastic wrap and put them in the freezer. Once frozen, I was able to cut, stack and carve them into the car shape. … Read more
This Disney Cars birthday cake took me 4 to 5 hours to make, the base consist of two half sheet cakes stacked, then to make the car I baked one 9×13 cut in half and stacked it. Than I carved it out into the shape I wanted. I hand piped the whole base….which takes for … Read more
My hubby and myself made this Lightning McQueen birthday cake at home. We do this a lot now for friends and family. This cake was made from chocolate sponge and covered with homemade sugar paste colored red. Before we started the cake we had pre piped and flooded the run out for the Rust-eze logo on the bonnet of … Read more
I needed a Cars cake that served about 75 people so I bought the Lightning McQueen cake pan and baked it using a boxed cake mix. I also baked a 12 x 18 cake using 3 boxed cake mixes. I made 4 batches of icing. I put white icing on the sheet cake and smoothed … Read more
This was the first time I’d ever tried to do a Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake like this. I actually got the idea from this site. It was pretty easy. I used the Wilton 3D cake pan and of course had to shave it down and make a spoiler with the rest. I used a boxed … Read more
I made this Cars Cake for my nephew Sam’s 3rd birthday. I purchased the ready made sponges from the shop, to save time you get 2 in packed (square). I needed the 2 packs. I placed one on top of each other and then cut on as the bottom. I then cut one in half … Read more
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
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
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
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