I made this Nascar cake for my nephew Ryan’s 8th birthday. I used the Nascar cake pan, and purchased the Nascar food color kit (red, blue, yellow and black). My brother-in-law, Ryan’s dad, provided a Nascar catalog/program that I used to copy the car design. I even cut out an ad to a Dale Jr. … Read more
This is only the second character cake I made. It was for a co-workers grandson’s third birthday and he only wanted Car birthday cakes. I used the Wilton Lightning McQueen pan and the Wiltons colors to tint the icing. I outlined the details in black and white with Wilton tip#2 and then starred (tip #16) … Read more
I made this Lightning McQueen cake for a friends grandson’s second birthday. I got the idea from the 2007 Wilton yearbook and this site. I used two boxes of rainbow bit cake mix to make two layers. I then iced half the cake in brown and half in sky blue. I added the checkered design … Read more
My son is an avid Cars fan and just loves cars of any kind. For his third birthday we decided that nothing would be better than a Lightning Mcqueen cake. I have always made my children’s birthday cakes, but I have never done a three dimensional cake before. With much fear and a little prayer … Read more
My son LOVES the movie “Cars” so I decided to try to make him a Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake. This is the first time that I have ever attempted something like this. After applying all the frosting, my hands were killing me!! I made it by using 2 full size cakes and stacking them. I … Read more
A co-worker asked me to make a cake for her 7 year old son because she knew I did a little experimenting with cake decorating. She asked for Lightning McQueen and I was so happy to oblige. I used the Wilton Lightning McQueen pan, which I already had on hand. For the cake on bottom, … Read more
I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my nephew’s 5th birthday party. It’s only the second cake I have ever decorated, and once I knew the steps to take it was surprisingly easy! The bottom sponge was 14 inches by 8 or 9 inches and I think that did almost 40 party bags. … Read more
I am a stay at home mom, and I love to bake. I just started making Birthday cakes. I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my 2 year old granddaughter. Yes, my granddaughter, she loves Lightning McQueen. I baked two 9×13 sheet cakes and one 8×8 cake. I froze them overnight. Then frosted … Read more
I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my nephew’s 3rd birthday and really bit off more than I could decorate with this cake. I will never be making it again unfortunately!!! The cakes used to make this were two large baking dish sized trays – like a slab cake sized. I drew up … Read more
I made this Lightning McQueen cake for my son’s “friend party” for his 6th birthday. He is a big Cars fan, so of course I could not disappoint. I made two 9×13 cakes, and carved the car shape out of that. I originally wanted to cover it with marshmallow fondant, but it kept ripping and … Read more
So I used the instructions for decorating from the Wilton website but made my own cake. I made two large square car birthday cakes then cut them to shape and decorated using butter icing (colored using Wilton paste).
My sister Wendy helped create this Lightning McQueen cake. We dyed fondant and used it to cover the race track which was made out of two 9×13 cakes. The Lightning McQueen car was sculpted out of a pound cake (the density of the pound cake made it easier to carve) using a tiny car as … Read more