This Lightning McQueen cake I made as a regular sheet cake. The car is the cars mold. I frosted the sheet cake white and laid the Cars cake on top of it. I crumbled up Oreos and put them as the wrecked road from the movie. For me the easiest thing to do is mix … Read more
I made this Cars cake for my husbands grandfather’s 75th birthday. He loves the movie Cars and Mater is his favorite character. To get the shape for my cakes I either draw out a pattern/template (on butcher paper) or find a clip art picture on the internet. You can enlarge pictures in several different programs … Read more
The idea came from the movie Cars. My son (3rd birthday) is crazy about this movie so I made him a cars birthday cake. I made a simple white cake mix and a lot of colors (same as the movie). I decorated everything in those colors and it was a great party.
For my son’s 3rd birthday he wanted a “Cars” cake with McQueen, Mater and the tractor on it. I saw a Cars cake on this site with the number for a road and added to it. I bought the cake undecorated at Publix and did all the decorations myself. I made a number 3 that … Read more
I used a cake pan in the shape of a car and cut it to resemble a shape of a Lightning McQueen cake. First I used buttercream icing to shape and mold the cake to achieve the contours I desired. Then I covered the cake with red fondant and using a picture as my guide. … Read more
I made this Lightning Mcqueen Disney Car cake for a four year old boy. The cake was chocolate with vanilla buttercream. The car was placed on a 1/4 sheet of smoothed buttercream, and frosted with buttercream-piped stars. The letters, car tires, eyes, lightning bolt and stars were fondant.
I made this Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for a friend’s 19th birthday, and she is a huge “Cars” fan, so she specially requested this. First, I made a 9×13 fudge marble swirl cake (with 2 cake mixes) for the base of the cake. Then, I made a red velvet cake in a bread loaf pan … Read more
I made this cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. He was so excited! I used an image from a coloring book and taped a piece of wax paper over the top so I could “trace” the picture with my piping bag. When the frosting was set I turned it over on top of the cake … Read more
I made this Disney Cars Cake for the kids at church, every 3 months they have a big birthday bash for all the kids who had a birthdays in the last 3 months. I first baked 3 rectangle cakes, 8×10 and 3 small square cakes 2×4.5. The 8×10 rectangle cakes became the body of the … Read more
I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my nephew’s 5th birthday party. It’s only the second cake I have ever decorated, and once I knew the steps to take it was surprisingly easy! The bottom sponge was 14 inches by 8 or 9 inches and I think that did almost 40 party bags. … Read more
I made this Cars Birthday Cake for my son’s third birthday. I am a stay at home mom who enjoys baking as a hobby. This cake is three tiers with three layers in each tier. A cake like this may seem impossible, but the key is preparation. About two weeks before his party, I took … Read more
I am a stay at home mom, and I love to bake. I just started making Birthday cakes. I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my 2 year old granddaughter. Yes, my granddaughter, she loves Lightning McQueen. I baked two 9×13 sheet cakes and one 8×8 cake. I froze them overnight. Then frosted … Read more