Coolest Dinoco Lightning Cake

I made this Homemade Dinoco Lightning Cake for my son’s 5th birthday party, he is a huge Cars fan and I wanted to make something exceptional for him.

I made it using a Madeira recipe. I made 1x rectangle, 1x square and 4x cupcakes. It was assembled then carved into the correct shape using the off cuts and trimmings to build up the fins etc. I rough iced the cake with buttercream then used fondant which I dyed electric blue. I iced the cupcakes which had been sliced in half with black icing and set them into the recesses id created as wheel arches.

I then made the decals from fondant icing which I carefully carved out using cocktail sticks and a very sharp knife. I used sugar flair food dyes the blue is ice blue. The yellow is melon, the black is black and the red is Christmas. It took 3 nights to do the hardest part was making the decals, I didn’t pipe them as I’m not over confident with a piping bag but they would look equally good as run-outs.

It was definitely a labor of love!

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