I made this Lightning Mcqueen Birthday Cake for my son’s 4th birthday. This is my first birthday cake. I visited this site more than a hundred times before making this one. Unfortunately I didn’t get dark red. So I used raspberry red. First I baked 3 rectangle shape cakes. Then I cut one and made … Read more
My son loves the Cars movie so I made this Cars Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for his 2nd birthday. I used the Wilton car pan and modified the back end to add a spoiler. I just copied (the best I could)from a picture of McQueen for the colors. Since the pan makes a small cake … Read more
This Disney Cars Cake was for the son of a friend of mine. I wanted a cool CARS cake for him, and wanted to have the black asphalt somewhere on it so he could put his actual toy CARS on it. The cakes are a 10″ and two 6″ cakes with icing in the middle, … Read more
A friend’s Mum asked if I could please make her daughter a Mater birthday cake for her 18th birthday. This would be a huge undertaking on my part, as I like things to be done as authentic as possible, and his Rigging concerned me greatly! All I could say, was I would “try” to do … Read more
This Cars cake was for my sons 5th birthday and he LOVES the movie Cars. This cake was made with the cruiser cake pan. I put the cake on a small cake board cut slightly smaller than the cake. I then hot glued two hidden pillars covered with foil to the larger cake board to … Read more
After viewing the Car birthday cakes on this site for inspiration, I baked one cake mix in a one pound and a 1.5 pound loaf pan. I cut the top of the car and the “spoiler” from the smaller loaf, carved them then placed on top of the larger loaf with frosting. For the frosting … Read more
I made this kids cake last year for my truck obsessed sons second birthday. You will need one long loaf pan (Wiltons), three mini loaf pans (Wiltons), two cake mixes, two half cans of frosting, 10 Oreo cookies, one long piece of cardboard covered with foil, cut to fit the length of the truck from … Read more
I used two cake mixes for this Cars cake, baked in regular 9×13 pan and a loaf pan (for cab). I cut rectangles out for the base and the bed of the truck. I added the loaf rectangle for cab (held together with bamboo skewers). Ice the whole cake except windows, with chocolate frosting. Ice … Read more
My 2 year old is crazy about Cars, so I thought what better than a Lightning McQueen cake. The cake was a large sheet of Chocolate Sponge, about 30cmx50cm. I first cut out an oval shape for the bottom layer and cut out a smaller layer for the roof, cutting the front and back edges … Read more
I had fun with my son’s first birthday party cakes. It was a Cars theme, and the Cars Cast turned out oh-so-cute! I baked several bread loaf cakes (not filling them too full so they wouldn’t be tall) and trimmed them with an electric knife to mimic the Cars characters. I also made a mini … Read more
We made this Mack the Truck from Cars Cake by baking two cake mixes (9 cups of batter) in an extra long Wilton loaf pan for 70 minutes. We turned the cake out and my husband carved the basic shape of a truck and trailer. We iced the cake using the Wilton buttercream icing recipe … Read more
This Lightening McQueen Birthday Cake was done for a friend’s son for his first birthday. His room is decorated in Disney Cars, so that’s what his mother requested. The bottom tier is a 14 inch round, white cake, and the top tier is a 10 inch round, chocolate cake. I used homemade buttercream icing for … Read more