This is a Lightning McQueen Birthday cake from the Cars movie. When the request came in for this one I was pretty nervous. I’ve done a truck before but never a car. I took the easy way out and bought the 3D car pan made by Wilton. Thank goodness! I’m not sure how well I … Read more
I made this cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. He was so excited! I used an image from a coloring book and taped a piece of wax paper over the top so I could “trace” the picture with my piping bag. When the frosting was set I turned it over on top of the cake … Read more
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 … Read more
I made a Lightning McQueen birthday cake for my grandson’s 4th birthday party. For the 1st time I hired a Wilton’s Lightning McQueen cake tin and bought a packet of cake mix. I followed the instructions but suffered to get a bright red and a bright black color with my butter icing. At last I … Read more
I made this Homemade Lightning Mcqueen Car Cake for a 2nd birthday party. It’s 3 1/4 sheets stacked and then carved into the shape and iced with buttercream then cover in fondant. I switched the original number for the birthday boy’s age and wrote happy birthday instead of “rusteze”. The lightning bolts were hand painted … Read more
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