After reviewing this site, I decided to make a Race Car Track Birthday Cake for my 6 yr old’s birthday. I prepared a Devil’s Food cake mix and a Classic White cake mix. I then placed spoons full of cake mix in a 10″ pan, alternating between the mixes to create a somewhat checkerboard style. I baked 4- 10″ layers.
I cut about 2″ off of one side of each cake to fit them together (Figure 8 shape). Using Wilton’s white buttercream icing recipe, I added some icing between the cakes to help hold them together on the board and also between the layers. I then sprinkled crushed chocolate stuffed Oreos on the icing filling.
I iced the top white and then using the wide, cake icing tip (Wilton), I placed wide stripes around the sides of the cakes, alternating between white and black (chocolate buttercream icing tinted black). Using that same tip, I piped two wide strips of black icing for the track in the #6 shape. I sprinkled the track with more finely crushed Oreos. I trimmed the cake with a red star border, yellow and red outlines, and added some cars to my track to complete the look.
It turned out beautiful and tasted good too!
The cake looks awesome, Great work…wish we could get some to taste it too..just kidding :)
Your six yr old will be proud of you…
Keep it up!! just to let you know my b’day is in June!!
Your cake turned out really cute!
Tara, you are amazing! How do you find the time? You put all of us to shame with all the beautiful things that you accomplish.
This is way cool!! Loving you from MO.
Love it! Thanks for sharing :)
Beautiful cake, I know your babies are proud of their mommy.
The cake turned out really cute! What can you not do Mama T?
Just wanted to say what a great job you did on this cake, I love it!!
Thanks all!