So I used the instructions for decorating from the Wilton website but made my own cake. I made two large square car birthday cakes then cut them to shape and decorated using butter icing (colored using Wilton paste).
My sister Wendy helped create this Lightning McQueen cake. We dyed fondant and used it to cover the race track which was made out of two 9×13 cakes. The Lightning McQueen car was sculpted out of a pound cake (the density of the pound cake made it easier to carve) using a tiny car as … Read more
One night my wife and I were watching Ace of Cakes on the Food Network. I made a comment along the lines of “I could do that”. Well, she more or less told me to prove it and since we had one of our son’s having a birthday coming up, I asked him what kind … Read more
Using icing I transferred the picture of the car onto the Cars birthday cake. Using a background of white the colours in the cake stands out more. I do all the work free hand and work on order from customers. I do not do this professionally and I taught myself. This is a passion and … Read more
I made this Lightning McQueen Cake for my son’s third birthday. He, like most boys his age, is OBSESSED with the movie Cars and loves anything and everything associated with the movie. I haven’t made a sculpted cake before so I was nervous, the red fondant, the actual sculpting of the shape. There are quite … Read more
This Lightening McQueen Cars Birthday Cake I made for my little Blakey Bear when he turned 3 this year. It is a triple layer cake made with 3 boxes of Rainbow Chip cake mix. Rainbow Chip frosting between layers for the car. The 3rd layer is cut and leveled off to make the front window. … Read more
For this Homemade Cars Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake I started with two 9 x 13 sheet cakes (one chocolate and one yellow) and ½ a cake mix (chocolate) in a loaf pan. I just made cupcakes with the extra batter and gave them away. So I iced between the two sheet cakes and carved the … Read more
Yes, this is another Lightning McQueen birthday cake. There are already many beautiful Lightning McQueen cakes on this site! It is too bad I’ve found this site after making the cake. There are a lot of good tips on the site! But about this cake. My mother and I made this cake for the celebration … Read more
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