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
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
Well the request from my son this year was a homemade ‘Mack the Truck birthday cake – please Mummy!’ We baked 2 large chocolate cakes using a lined roasting pan as the tin. Once cooled we cut the cake in half length ways then spread a bit of fruit jam to help the stacks stick. … Read more
My son, Krige, wanted a Cars cake for his 5th birthday. He is a perfectionist and I knew that he wouldn’t be satisfied with a “look-a-like” Lightning McQueen “want to be cake” – it had to be perfect. The only way was to get the shape right, therefore I hired a Lightning McQueen shaped pan … Read more
I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Cake for my son’s third birthday. I baked two chocolate pound cakes (9 x 13, and 9 x 9) and had left over, so made cupcakes (for the wheels). I cut the cake free-hand in order to shape the car (using a number of cars from my son’s collection … Read more
For this coolest Disney CARS birthday cake I used an 11 x 15 sheet pan. This cake was for my 2 year old and 4 year old boys birthday party (their birthday’s are May 3rd and May 4th). The boys LOVED the cake and I had several parents ask me where I had purchased the … Read more
I made this Homemade Lightning Mcqueen Cake Design for my son’s 3rd Birthday. He is Cars mad. I had never made or decorated a cake before, so wasn’t hoping for much! I used one of his Cars toys to copy, bought some coloured icing, and here is the result. Needless to say he was over … Read more
I made this Lightning McQueen cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used the Wilton 3D car cake tin. I sliced the roof on an angle and used the cutoff for the spoiler. I decorated using royal icing. Started making the accessories (tires, lightning bolts, eye, etc). Then rolled out a rectangular piece of red … Read more
I started this Tow Mater Cake Idea with a chocolate 13 x 9 cake. After it was cooled and chilled I cut in half length wise. On half I cut a little curve off on end for the front of the truck and then iced the top of this piece. The other half I cut … Read more
This Cars Road Birthday Cake was made for my son’s 2nd birthday. About a week before his birthday, he became obsessed with Cars! The bottom tier is made of yellow cake. I used 1 1/2 recipes to make three big layers. It’s filled with buttercream and covered with fondant. I made the signs first. Days … Read more
I made this Tow Mater cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. Cooper loves the Cars movies and especially Mater. I think his first words were “Dad Gum!”. Lol. I started by making the towing system out of fondant mixed with gumpaste. I used dowel rods in the middle to keep them straight and just sculpted … Read more