I am taking the Wilton Cake Decorating Class and made this Lightning McQueen Cake to practice for my 3 year old son who loves Lightning McQueen. It is my first cake! I used the Wilton Cars Cake pan and one cake mix box. I used tips 3 and 16. I followed the Wilton directions and made their buttercream frosting. The instructions say you will need 5 1/4 cups of frosting and the frosting recipe only makes 3 cups so I doubled it. The frosting is delicious so I recommend their recipe but the amount was too much. I used only about 2/3 of the recommended amount of frosting. I had to stop and restart decorating this cake.
I refrigerated my frosting while I was not using it. When I started again I rewhipped my frosting in my mixer. This was an important step because it got the frosting soft again so it would be good for decorating. It was great practice and my son loves the cake!
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That’s really cute! Nice job!