My nephew loves the movie Cars, and his favorite character is Lighting McQueen, so, I made him this Lightning McQueen cake. It was kind of easy to do, because I used the Wilton Lighting McQueen cake pan. You could use any 2-layer cake mix. I actually make my cakes from scratch. I really didn’t follow … Read more
My sons favorite movie is Cars, so for his birthday, I just had to make him a Cars cake. I knew I wanted it to be 3-D, and there was no pan I found to do that, so got ideas from Car birthday cakes on this site and then I did it all myself. I … Read more
To make this Lightning McQueen cake I used the Lightning McQueen cake pan from Wilton. I frosted the cake with buttercream and then topped it with red fondant. I cut out a cake board to the shape of the car and placed the cake on it. Then I made a rectangular cake frosted with buttercream … Read more
I made this Lightning Mcqueen cake for my nephew’s 1st birthday. The car cake pan was Wiltons but there wasn’t enough cake so I put it on top of a 13×9 rectangle pan. The frosting I made myself from my grandmother’s recipe. I decorated the base like a road and used edible candy lightning bolts … Read more
I did this Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for a good friend’s grandson’s birthday. The cake was a hit with everyone! I enjoyed doing this cake as with all the cakes I have done. I am getting better all the time. I think the clouds and sun makes this cake stand out. I changed up the … Read more
I made this Lightning McQueen Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. I used the Wilton 3D cruiser cake pan and just a box cake mix. I used Cake Release all over inside (especially in the little detailed spots) and filled it up about ¾ of the way. When it was finished, I cut off the … Read more
I have had zero cake decorating classes, but this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake was easy enough that I was still able to pull off. This Lightning McQueen cake my 3 yr old requested in a fairly short amount of time. 1. I prepared one boxed cake mix according to directions and then baked it … Read more
We made this Lightning McQueen Cars Cake for our son’s 4th birthday party. We used a picture from Wilton for inspiration. It was truly a family effort! I pulled in my husband and my mom to get this done. My husband, who is not a cake artist, did a great job piping the candy car. … Read more
I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday. I started out by baking a chocolate cake in a 3D car shaped tin I got from our local cake specialty shop. It had to be baked for a long time as there was so much mixture it took a long time … Read more
I used a chocolate cake with buttercream frosting covered in red fondant (purchased, getting the red color is almost impossible)for this Lightening McQueen Birthday Cake. The rest is decorated from fondant and then put it on a bed or green icing.
This cake was made for a friends little boy. I used two rectangular cakes on top of each other. I then cut out the cake to the shape of lightning McQueen and cut a spoiler out of hard plastic for the spoiler. I covered the cake in sugar paste and made the eyes lightning flash … Read more
When I decided to make the Lightning McQueen cake I knew it would be a lot harder than the others I attempted. I wanted to try it anyway. I started with a small rectangle pan and baked a sponge cake for the car. I did these two days before the party, told all that this … Read more