I made this Cars Birthday Cake Design for my son for his second birthday. I started out by making marshmallow fondant (you can find the recipe by searching the internet, very easy to make). I colored some black and left some white. I made the “Piston Cup” with the fondant. I just cut it out … Read more
This Tow Mater Cake is frosted with butter cream because fondant and I do not get along! I used 2 half sheet cakes and cut off about 2 inches, lengthwise from each cake to make the cab. I did use homemade fondant for the windows, eyes and teeth. I used full size chocolate donuts for … Read more
My son, an ardent cars fan wanted Lightening McQueen as his cake for his 5th birthday. I bravely accepted the challenge! He specifically wanted a butter cake. I made one square cake and one round cake. First I drew the shape of the car ( when you look from above) on to a paper and … Read more
This Lightning McQueen cake was made out of chocolate cake and fondant. To get the lightning strips, we yellow-tinted white fondant and then used the Wilton orange mist spray to darken their effect.
Since the mother of the birthday boy is a vegetarian, I made a homemade fondant using agar agar in place of the gelatin. I will say I still had a few agar agar lumps, so I don’t think the recipe is without issues. It is on Epicurious. I didn’t want to wrap the whole Lighning … Read more
I made Mater and Lightning McQueen for two brothers parties they had together. They really liked them. The Tow Mater Birthday cake was made of pound cake and fondant. I air brushed the colors on. The writing is made of fondant also. I am really pleased with the turn out.
Taking tips and ideas from a bunch of the cakes already on the site, I constructed this “Piston Cup” homemade Cars racetrack cake for my Godson’s second birthday. The cake is a two-layer 9×13 sheet cake with 1/2 three-tier 9″ rounds on each end. The top layer of each end is cut at an angle … Read more
My 3 year old Grandson came to me and asked if I could make him a birthday cake with Monster truck Mater “quishin” (squishing) Finn McMissle. He is way too cute to say no to. I came up with this design of a Monster Truck Mater and Finn McMissle Birthday Cake and my kitchen will … Read more
Heres an idea for a Disney Pixar’s Cars (the movie), Lightning McQueen cake. My mom always comes up with the most unique cakes that no one has ever seen before. And she just had to create a one of a kind cake for my son’s 2nd Birthday. For the Cars cake decorations, use the Wilton’s … Read more
I baked this Lightning McQueen cake and make the icing a day in advance. On this cake I used a standard yellow cake with buttercream icing. I put the base crumb coat on the cake and let the icing set covered over night. After the cake and icing has settled overnight I put my base … Read more
This cake was made out of a loaf pan and cut / trimmed to look like the front of a truck. Small Oreos were used as the wheels, toothpicks were covered with frosting to look like smokestacks.
This Cars birthday cake was made for my son’s 3rd birthday party. The theme was CARS from the Disney movie. I made a one layer 10-inch round cake for the bottom and the top cake is a 2-layer 6-inch round cake. After the cakes cooled I iced them both in white buttercream icing. To get … Read more