Since the mother of the birthday boy is a vegetarian, I made a homemade fondant using agar agar in place of the gelatin. I will say I still had a few agar agar lumps, so I don’t think the recipe is without issues. It is on Epicurious. I didn’t want to wrap the whole Lighning … Read more
My son has been asking for a Lightning cake for months, so when his birthday started getting closer, I began looking online for some ideas. My first decision was to do the simple round cake and just put his little Lightning and Mater dinky cars on top. But I was feeling extra ambitious and decided … Read more
My son loves the Cars movie and desperately wanted a Lightning McQueen party for his 4th birthday – I love a challenge so I copied the shape and coloring of the car from a dinky version of Lightning McQueen. The Cars cake was made with two square-shaped chocolate cakes cut into the shape of the … Read more
This Lightning McQueen cake I made as a regular sheet cake. The car is the cars mold. I frosted the sheet cake white and laid the Cars cake on top of it. I crumbled up Oreos and put them as the wrecked road from the movie. For me the easiest thing to do is mix … Read more
I just started making cakes and a friend requested the Cars cake. Well, you know us cake decorators don’t back down from a challenge. This is how we learn, right! Well, it was a big hit. The little boys even tried to play with it!
I made this Lightening McQueen Birthday Cake for a friend’s son as he’s really into the movie ‘Cars’. It was a big hit! I used an oblong cake pan, cooked a moist chocolate cake (folding in whisked egg whites at the last minute for extra bounce) and cut a car shape out with a knife, … Read more
I made this homemade Lighting McQueen birthday cake for my son, Brady’s, 2nd birthday. It was real easy to make and only took about an hour to decorate. He loved it!! When we were cutting it he was crying, “No, don’t hurt him!” Too cute!! I took 3 sheet cakes and layered them on top … Read more
My son was turning 3 and he absolutely loves Lightning McQueen from the Cars movie. I had made a Thomas the Train cake for his 2nd birthday that turned out real well so I decided to tackle a Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake. I used a sheet cake pan (12 x 18) for the body of … Read more
My son, an ardent cars fan wanted Lightening McQueen as his cake for his 5th birthday. I bravely accepted the challenge! He specifically wanted a butter cake. I made one square cake and one round cake. First I drew the shape of the car ( when you look from above) on to a paper and … Read more
This Lightning McQueen cake was made out of chocolate cake and fondant. To get the lightning strips, we yellow-tinted white fondant and then used the Wilton orange mist spray to darken their effect.
I was asked by my friend to do a cake for her twin boys 4th Birthday. She gave me a big plastic Lightning Mcqueen car and said I want this and as I like a challenge I said yes. I searched a forum for some ideas for a Lightning McQueen cake and well this is … Read more
This Lighting McQueen cake 3rd birthday cake was time consuming but easy. I used the 3D Car cake from Wilton’s. I used a pound cake mix because it seems firmer and easier to shape. Next, I used yellow, no taste red, and black icing. I used the Tip 16. After baking I cut some off … Read more