I made this 1st Birthday Car Cake for my friend Cleo’s kid, Ivan on his first birthday. I used a 10″ round pan and cut both sides, approximately 2″ thick and placed it on top to form the hump. Inside is a choco moist cake. For filling, it’s strawberry preserves and butter frosting. Boiled icing … Read more

This homemade car birthday cake was the first cake I ever made- it was for my son’s first birthday, cars and trucks themed. In researching for this cake, I discovered this site and copied one I found almost exactly. The base was made from two layers of 12” round cake, and the middle layer was … Read more

My daughter and I baked this Chevy Camaro cake. We covered the cake in buttercream icing. Made the Chevy bowtie from fondant, found a picture of a camaro, cut out a pattern then traced it and cut it from fondant. We used Wilton Icing spray in black to give the tires and trim look shiny. … Read more

This Bumble Bee car cake is a butter cake made for my 1 year old son’s birthday. First attempt, not completely happy with frosting (Vienna creme) but can live with for first attempt. Extra edible bits to the car include: Licorice bumpers front and back, as well as trim, door handles, rear vision mirrors and … Read more

For my son’s first birthday I decided to go with a theme of ‘cars’. I didn’t want to go too ‘theme’ crazy so I decided to stay away from characters etc. and made a Car Birthday Cake Design. I used the Wilton 3D cruiser pan. It took a couple of tries (3) to get the … Read more

This Car Birthday Cake was made with butter cream icing (for the glue) and fondant. It took me about 8 hours to complete this cake including baking. I used an airbrush machine to color the cake and I mixed a tad of black icing gel into white fondant to get the grey/silver for the mag … Read more

I found my inspiration for this Transportation Birthday Cake on this website. It was car #16, so thank you for the great idea!! I just added a variety of vehicles because our theme encompassed more than just cars. I used Wilton cookie cutters for the vehicles on the sides of the cake. I added my … Read more

This 1960 Cadillac Cake Design was made for my father-in-law’s 60th birthday. Appropriately , it is derived from his pride and joy, his 1960 Cadillac. The bottom is carrot cake, dirty iced with cream cheese icing with a hint of walnut flavor added, and is covered in blue marshmallow fondant. The Cadillac is shaped out … Read more

I started by making the car on the Homemade Car Cake. My son’s wife e mailed me some pictures of their car so I could make it out of icing. I started with a small block of white icing and added some flower paste icing this helps the icing to harden. I kneaded this well … Read more

I made this Transportation Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loves cars, tucks and wheels. I baked a sandwich cake (vanilla cake) and when cooled butter cream frosting in the middle and then covered the whole cake with vanilla icing. I used fondant for the decoration, cut different colors and shapes of trucks and … Read more

We made this Red Hot Car Cake to celebrate our son’s 17th birthday. As he was taking his 1st driving lesson on his birthday a car seemed to be the most appropriate design to make. We sculpted the car from 2 homemade sandwich cakes and used butter cream and strawberry jam to fill. The centre … Read more

This is my first 3D car cake. I have no idea what to do then I searched online and found this site which is useful. Now it’s my turn to share my experience. For this VW Car Cake I used pound cake. And use 3D cruiser car pan by Wilton then craft a little bit … Read more

This 1951 Woody Car cake was a peanut butter cake, with peanut butter frosting (for the wood) and tinted buttercream icing for the remainder. The details were all formed from fondant. The sand is fondant and brown sugar. To make the wood grain on the fondant door trim, I brushed it with melted chocolate.

This car cake was really easy to make. It was for my four year old son who is crazy about cars. I baked one yellow cake mix in 2 loaf pans. Once baked I cut each one of the loaves in half. I placed the other loaf rounded side down on a tray, and used … Read more

This Toyota Car Birthday Cake was my first ever 3d cake and I was so nervous while doing it. I made this cake for my husband’s 30th birthday. He recently bought a Toyota Axio and I thought it would be fun to surprise him with a cake of that exact car. I made it with … Read more

This Cars Birthday Cake was my first (and second) attempt at make a car cake. I bought the car shaped cake pan at the store (I was not ready to carve, yet!) The first cake I baked actually broke in half, so I had to make another one. The icing is homemade cream cheese, tinted … Read more

I created this homemade Car birthday cake for my nephew Sebastian’s 6th Birthday. I used a car mold and a rectangular cake. I made them out of chocolate because that’s Sebastian’s favorite flavor. I used coconut and green food coloring to make it look like grass to give the idea of a park in a … Read more