I baked this Lightning McQueen cake and make the icing a day in advance. On this cake I used a standard yellow cake with buttercream icing. I put the base crumb coat on the cake and let the icing set covered over night. After the cake and icing has settled overnight I put my base … 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
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
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
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
This Lightning Mcqueen cake was for my son’s 2nd birthday, he is obsessed with Cars. This is a 18×13 in pan and a Wilton car mold on top. I used the Wilton “Cars” dye kit and colored the frosting. After the cakes were baked and cooled I shaved down the car shape from the Wilton … Read more