This cake was made for a friends little boy. I used two rectangular cakes on top of each other. I then cut out the cake to the shape of lightning McQueen and cut a spoiler out of hard plastic for the spoiler. I covered the cake in sugar paste and made the eyes lightning flash … Read more
When I decided to make the Lightning McQueen cake I knew it would be a lot harder than the others I attempted. I wanted to try it anyway. I started with a small rectangle pan and baked a sponge cake for the car. I did these two days before the party, told all that this … Read more
I used a cake pan in the shape of a car and cut it to resemble a shape of a Lightning McQueen cake. First I used buttercream icing to shape and mold the cake to achieve the contours I desired. Then I covered the cake with red fondant and using a picture as my guide. … Read more
I made this Lightning Mc Queen Birthday Cake for my son’s third birthday. I have never done anything like this before so it was a little scary. I got a lot of my ideas from this website. First I used three 13×9 pans and stacked them together. My husband took on the challenge of carving … Read more
With my son Jameson’s 2nd birthday approaching and his obsessive interest in the Disney Cars movie I knew I had to try to make it for him. So I started with 3 Dunkin Hein’s yellow cake mixes. I baked them in standard cake pans, and when they were cool, I stacked them and carved the … Read more
My son was turning 4 and I was adamant to make him a great birthday cake. For his previous birthdays I was very ambitious but never managed to get it right. The icing was always my biggest challenge and would make the cake look less than perfect in my eyes. My friend who bakes a … Read more
I baked my nephew’s favorite character from Disney “Cars”, a Lightning McQueen Cake. The base is chocolate cake baked in an 8×12 pan. I didn’t have time to bake another cake for the roof so I used Styrofoam. After I sculpted the roof I wrapped it in aluminum foil and attached it to the cake … Read more
I found a lady who had step-by-step instructions on how to make a Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake – awesome! The best advise I can give is to buy pre-coloured red and black fondant. The next best bit of advise is to freeze the cake as it makes it a breeze to carve into the shape … Read more
My son wanted a CARS themed birthday and I usually make a family birthday cake to celebrate. I honestly looked around on this website and took inspiration from others for this Homemade Disney Cars Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake. I used a 12”x14” jellyroll pan and 2 boxed cake mixes. They made a total of 2 … Read more
This Cars cake was made for my co-workers sons who was turning five. The Wilton Cruiser cake pan was used for this cake. The bottom portion of the cake was made using a 12X12 cake pan. I cut the top of the Cruiser cake and a portion of the hood area to get the general … Read more
The Lightning McQueen cake was done with the Wilton cake pan. The other cake is a 1/4 sheet. Both cakes are two layers. I sprayed the sheet cake green, used crushed graham crackers for the road and the grass tip for the grass and the grass border. The flags were bought at a party store … Read more
I got my inspiration for this Lightning McQueen cake from Rebeccas NASCAR car cake. I baked one 10″ and one 12″ cake. I cut the top tier to about 7″ to have the slop. Then accessorized for the cake the street signs signal, lights and clouds which were make of fondant about two days before … Read more