This Lighting McQueen cake 3rd birthday cake was time consuming but easy. I used the 3D Car cake from Wilton’s. I used a pound cake mix because it seems firmer and easier to shape. Next, I used yellow, no taste red, and black icing. I used the Tip 16. After baking I cut some off … Read more

This Lightning Mcqueen cake was made for my son’s 3rd birthday party! I used the Wilton Lightning McQueen cake pan, however it didn’t seem enough for the large number of people that were invited. So I had the idea of making a large sheet cake for the bottom (13×9 inches I believe) and decided to … Read more

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