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
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.
This Tow Mater Cake was my first attempt at a 3D cake, it was for my son’s 4th birthday, and he insisted that he HAD to have a Mater cake. It was also the first time I used ready to roll fondant, as you can tell I had no idea, but thankfully Mater is an … Read more
Every year I do it to myself. I make an awesome cake that goes way beyond anyone’s hopes and dreams and the following year I have to top it. Last year my son wanted a Lightning McQueen cake for his 4th birthday. I used one of his toys as my model and I stayed up … Read more
My son just had his third birthday and is a huge “Cars” fan so I decided to make him a “Mater” cake. I started off with two cake mixes, one in a 9×13″ pan, the other split between a loaf pan and a 9×9″ pan. I froze these so they would be easier to work … Read more
I made this cars cake for my friends son. The cars are made out of pound cake and fondant. I also used some candies for the decorations. The bottom cake is just a rectangle cake with black and white buttercream piped into a flag design around the sides. I finished it off with a piston … Read more
This Tow Mater Birthday Cake was a first attempt at using marshmallow fondant. I am terrible with buttercream, so when my nephew wanted a Mater cake, I decided to try the fondant that is supposed to taste good! I used 2 carved Sara Lee Frozen Pound Cakes for the truck, and a single cake mix … 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
My son is a “Cars” freak and when I say freak, I mean that at 3 years old, he knows EVERY line of the movie! I searched and searched for a “Cars” themed cake, but didn’t find anything that yelled, “Make me!”. Then I found the Mater cakes on this website. I took ideas from … Read more
I baked a 9×13 cake and iced it with cream cheese frosting. Then I printed a picture of Mater from the computer and used it to look at while drawing the figure on the cake. I first used a skewer stick as my “pencil” to draw in the frosting and then I went back with … Read more
For this Cars cake, I made a sheet cake, and a 10-in square cake. I cut the square cake almost in half, and then stacked it, leaving just enough cake to make the hook. I then frosted the cake and used dowel rods to hold the hook up.
