My little three-year old nephew loves the movie Cars especially Lightning McQueen so we decided to make a Cars cake for his birthday. For this Lightning Mcqueen cake from Pixars Cars I made a rectangular yellow cake which I carved into the shape of the car. I covered it with red cream cheese frosting. I … Read more
I made this cake for my little boys 2nd birthday and it was my first ever attempt at cake decorating. I made a basic Victoria sandwich mix in two Swiss roll tins and then sandwiched them together using jam and butter icing. I then carved them into the shape using the car cake shown on … 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
My nephew liked Veggie Tales and Cars so I decided to make a special cake for him. First time I made a cake from scratch. Used the internet for instructional videos and the recipes for the white cake, chocolate cake and Marshmallow Fondant. The Veggie Tales and the bleachers were partially Styrofoam and then covered … Read more
I was looking for some examples of cars cake decorations and caught this site. I looked at other ideas and came up with this cake. It’s a chocolate shaped car cake with caramel filling covered in sugar paste (all edible). I decorated it to look like the car character. Thanks for sharing all your ideas; … Read more
My son loves Disneys Cars so it was a no-brainer to have a Cars-themed party for his 4th birthday! Of the many car birthday cakes on this site, I chose this cake which was easy to make and received a lot of compliments. First I made a 13×9 cake and frosted it white. Then I … Read more