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
I made this Cars Birthday Cake for my nephew Hadley’s third birthday. My sister asked me to make this for her and I love to make cakes, especially for family so I figured why not? I had no idea how to start and originally was going to make a red cake but decided to cover … Read more
I made this Lightning McQueen Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. I used the Wilton 3D cruiser cake pan and just a box cake mix. I used Cake Release all over inside (especially in the little detailed spots) and filled it up about ¾ of the way. When it was finished, I cut off the … Read more
My son was turning 3 and he absolutely loves Lightning McQueen from the Cars movie. I had made a Thomas the Train cake for his 2nd birthday that turned out real well so I decided to tackle a Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake. I used a sheet cake pan (12 x 18) for the body of … Read more
I made this Homemade Cars Cake for my nephew’s 4th birthday. I got a lot of ideas from this web site. I baked store bought cake mixes and stacked and carved out to shape I wanted for the car. I stacked the car on top of a sheet cake. I used store bought frosting but … Read more
I made a Lightning McQueen birthday cake for my grandson’s 4th birthday party. For the 1st time I hired a Wilton’s Lightning McQueen cake tin and bought a packet of cake mix. I followed the instructions but suffered to get a bright red and a bright black color with my butter icing. At last I … Read more
I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd Birthday Party on Saturday. I made 2 cakes, one for the car and one for the base. It took from start to finish 3.5 hrs. I mixed the colors the night before. Making the red color was a bit tricky, I almost used … Read more
My son loves “Cars” so I wanted to make him a Lightning McQueen cake for his 3rd Birthday. I have never carved a cake and wanted to try my hand at it after viewing some of the pictures on here. (I’ve been decorating for awhile so this was a good challenge for me.) The cake … Read more
To make this Mack the Truck Birthday cake, I used the ideas from other Mack cakes I found on this site; they were great! I baked two box cakes in 9″ x 13″ pans, cut them in half lengthwise and then cut about 1/3 of the length off. I stacked three of the halves, which … Read more
After doing a Lightning McQueen cake for my nephew last year, I decided Fillmore would be the easiest to do this year, since he’s basically a block. Over the last year, my nephew’s complete adoration of all things Cars hadn’t waned even a little bit. One problem – I forgot how many colors of frosting … Read more
My two year old son loves Tow Mater from Disney Cars and he had requested a Tow Mater Birthday Cake. First, I thought this is the hardest cake ever to make! But to my surprise it was the enjoyable and full of surprises. So the flavor of the cake is chocolate with all the things … Read more
My little three-year old nephew loves the movie Cars especially Lightning McQueen so we decided to make a Cars cake for his birthday. For this Lightning Mcqueen cake from Pixars Cars I made a rectangular yellow cake which I carved into the shape of the car. I covered it with red cream cheese frosting. I … Read more