For my sons 2nd birthday we did a racecar theme and with the new movie CARS out, we decided to go with Lighting McQueen. He took three sheet cakes to make. Then I cut them out as shown on the picture. I made the red icing about two days ahead of time to give the … Read more
I used three boxes of yellow cake and baked two loaf cakes and one sheet cake for this Lightning McQueen cake. I chilled each cake and cut the two loaf cakes in the shape of cars. I used fresh buttercream frosting which I colored with the Disney Cars color gels packaged by Wilton. I used … Read more
This Lightning Mcqueen cake was for my son’s 2nd birthday, he is obsessed with Cars. This is a 18×13 in pan and a Wilton car mold on top. I used the Wilton “Cars” dye kit and colored the frosting. After the cakes were baked and cooled I shaved down the car shape from the Wilton … Read more
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