I baked a Lightning McQueen cake and cupcakes for a 4 year old toddlers birthday party. I made a spongecake which I carved and covered in a red fondant with all the trimmings. I also made cupcakes with the racing number on for each child that came to the party. I did it overnight. I … Read more
I made this Lightening McQueen birthday cake with 3 cakes total. Two regular long cakes for base wrapped in red fondant. The third cake I cut and used for top of car. I always buy my own Wilton Fondant from Michaels and make my own colors. I have the Wilton color box, and it has everything I need! … Read more
For my son’s fourth birthday he wanted a Lighting McQueen cake. After baking a couple Betty Crocker box cake mixes in two 9×11 pans, I allowed them to cool, wrapped them in plastic wrap and put them in the freezer. Once frozen, I was able to cut, stack and carve them into the car shape. … Read more
This Disney Cars birthday cake took me 4 to 5 hours to make, the base consist of two half sheet cakes stacked, then to make the car I baked one 9×13 cut in half and stacked it. Than I carved it out into the shape I wanted. I hand piped the whole base….which takes for … Read more
My hubby and myself made this Lightning McQueen birthday cake at home. We do this a lot now for friends and family. This cake was made from chocolate sponge and covered with homemade sugar paste colored red. Before we started the cake we had pre piped and flooded the run out for the Rust-eze logo on the bonnet of … Read more
I also used the Wilton cake pan. This Lightning McQueen Cake was my first character cake and it took a lot of steps, but it was a lot of fun, too. The key to getting nice star shapes is to make sure your icing is slightly chilled. If it starts looking runny, pop it in … Read more
My son is obsessed with the movie Cars. So I decided to make a 3D cake myself. It took me about 4 hours to carve and decorate this Lightning McQueen cake. I used 2 loaf pans for the car, kept one whole and carved the roof, fenders and spoiler out of the other loaf pan. … Read more
My son is obsessed with Lightning McQueen and wanted a Lightning McQueen cake for his 4th birthday. I am definitely not an expert cake decorator so I was pretty nervous about attempting this but after looking through all the Lightning cakes on this website, I was determined to at least try it. I used 3 … Read more
This was a cake I made for a customer. It was a double Chocolate sponge. Made the vanilla cake and sandwiched it with a filling of fluffy white American frosting and smooth raspberry Jam. Mixing with an electric beater to add lots of air, sifting all the dry ingredients to add in more air so … Read more
When I asked my son what he wanted for his cake for his third birthday, I was expecting him to say “chocolate”. Boy was I surprised when he asked for Lightning McQueen and Tow Mater from the movie Cars. So I try to clarify: ” you mean a cake with toy cars on top, right?”. … Read more
My son requested a Lightning McQueen cake for his 4th birthday. My initial thought was to try 3D, but then I decided against it, as I wanted to steer clear of having to use over-coloured fondant, which most kids reject. I cut this Lightning Mcqueen Cake Design to shape after baking in a big rectangular … Read more
I made this Lightning Mcqueen Birthday Cake for my son’s 4th birthday. This is my first birthday cake. I visited this site more than a hundred times before making this one. Unfortunately I didn’t get dark red. So I used raspberry red. First I baked 3 rectangle shape cakes. Then I cut one and made … Read more