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
My son really wanted a Cars theme party and, of course, a Cars cake. He loves Tow Mater from the movie so I thought I would try creating it.I used a 3D car mold from Wilton, cut the back half of the window portion off and placed it on top of the front portion of … Read more
This Lightning Mcqueen cake was made for my son’s 3rd birthday party! I used the Wilton Lightning McQueen cake pan, however it didn’t seem enough for the large number of people that were invited. So I had the idea of making a large sheet cake for the bottom (13×9 inches I believe) and decided to … Read more
My son is obsessed with the movie Cars. So I decided to make a 3D cake myself. It took me about 4 hours to carve and decorate this Lightning McQueen cake. I used 2 loaf pans for the car, kept one whole and carved the roof, fenders and spoiler out of the other loaf pan. … Read more
My son has watched “Cars” more times that we can count, so it was appropriate to make him a 2nd Birthday Cars Cake. We searched for ideas, from form cakes to unique ideas with cake toppers. While at Target, we spotted the three-piece Race Day cars – Lightening McQueen (with tongue extended), Chick Hicks, and … Read more
I made this Mater Birthday Cake for my nephew and he loved it. I make the buttercream frosting and marshmallow fondant from scratch. Mater is driving on a road made with chocolate and vanilla cake with buttercream frosting. The sand next to the road is made from crushed graham crackers and the road is made … Read more
This Disney Cars Birthday Cake is my second Disney Cars cake and I made it for my son’s 4th birthday. I have to admit that I searched far and wide for inspiration (this web site, YouTube, Google etc.). The inspiration for this cake came off of one of Car’s posters where you see the track … Read more
This was a cake I made for a customer. It was a double Chocolate sponge. Made the vanilla cake and sandwiched it with a filling of fluffy white American frosting and smooth raspberry Jam. Mixing with an electric beater to add lots of air, sifting all the dry ingredients to add in more air so … 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
I made this Lightning Mqueen Birthday Cake for my daughter’s friend’s little boy and it was the first cake that I made and decorated myself. I asked my daughter’s friend what her little boy was into and we came up with this design. I was very nervous when I had to hand the cake over … Read more
I got a lot of great ideas from this website: Using a boxed cake mix to make a pound cake (see allrecipes.com “Grandmother’s Pound Cake I), baked in two loaf pans. I kept one cake about the same except for a little carving on one end to resemble the front of the car. The other … Read more