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
This Lightning McQueen cake is just a 9X11 that I cut in half and stacked, then shaved to the shape I wanted with a knife. I was inspired by many cakes on this site and decided to try my own version with what I thought I could “handle”. The donuts are tires (which were almost … Read more
For my son’s second birthday, I decided to make a chocolate mocha Tow Mater cake. This cake not only looks great, but is SUPER tasty and it was easy to decorate! The icing is a chocolate mocha butter cream icing that is super easy to spread and very quick to make. 1/2 cup of shortening, … Read more
This Cars Birthday Cake started with a box mix. I baked the cake in 8 mini loaf pans and then cut the cakes to shape the individual cars. Using food coloring and Dunkin Hines White icing, I decorated each of the cakes. The detail was added using store purchased gel icing tubes. My husband made … Read more
When my son, Mason, was turning 6, he was very much into the Cars movie and baseball. He couldn’t decide what kind of birthday cake he wanted, so he asked for a cake that was Cars and baseball. I had to think a bit on that one, but finally I decided on a baseball diamond … Read more
My son loved the Cars movie so I made this cake for his third birthday. This is a Wiltons Lightning McQueen cake pan which is very usefull for making Car birthday cakes. I used decorating tips #3 for outline, # 16 for majority of vehicle and #21 for windows. I frosted the car in white … Read more
This Lightning McQueen cake used three Duncan Hines cake mixes. I baked two vanillas in a large rectangular pan and one chocolate in the Wilton Cars pan. The large cake was trimmed flat and frosted white with homemade buttercream icing. I placed the Cars cake on top of the rectangle cake in the center and … Read more
My hubby helped on this one. I took the Wiltons really big sheet cake pan and that takes two cake mixes plus another 8″round, baked it and then I cut to the shape I needed it to be for a Cars cake. One half I used for the back and then the other half I … 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
This Lightning McQueen Cake was for my son’s 7th birthday party. I used a 1/2 sheet cake pan for this, then outlined the character on the top. It was filled with with tip #3 and #16 for the body. I followed the color from a picture, and the result was a huge hit! For the … Read more
My boy (Kent Michael) is turning two and loves the movie Cars and Lightning McQueen especially. So I researched and found out how to make the marshmallow fondant and tried my hand at cake making/ decorating. This Lightning McQueen Cake is not perfect by any means and my wife finally had to stop me from … Read more
I hate to bake, but love to decorate, cakes! So I buy a cake with just the white icing and go from there. For my grandson’s second birthday the theme was Cars so had to make him a Cars Birthday Cake. Fondant checkerboard sides and fondant track, the rest is buttercream icing, decorated with the … Read more