I made this Lightning McQueen cake for my son’s 5th birthday, using a 16-12 3 inch high oval pan that I carved down. Carve off the sides and place side by side on top for the cab. Tires are rice krispies treats covered in embossed and decorated fondant. The real challenge was constructing the case … Read more
This Cars Birthday Cake design was done with the frozen transfer method. You can find any design you like online, or from a coloring book. There are many sites that offer free coloring book pages to print out and these are wonderful for making childrens’ cake designs. I found this design online. You take a … Read more
This Cars Birthday Cake was an easy cake to make. I started by making a sheet cake for the bottom. The car is made out of pound cake, which is good to use. It carves easier and does not crumble like a box cake. I shaped the car from the pound cake. I then rolled … Read more
My sons birthday’s are 4 weeks apart so we have one party between them. I wanted a theme and they both like Lightening McQueen. So I decided to make one huge Lightening McQueen and The King Cake but give them both their “own” cakes. The sheet cake is 12″ by 30″ and the cars are … Read more
A friend wanted Tow Mater for her little girl, so I went with black and pink checkerboard for the bottom square. The homemade Tow Mater birthday cake was made using two cakes baked in bread pans. To keep it from looking so square I use marshmallow treats to sculpt curved edges, before I iced with … Read more
I started this Homemade Towmater Birthday Cake with a loaf pan and two 8×11 cakes. Also used a jelly roll pan so I could add height where I wanted and made 5 cupcakes for the wheels and one for the engine piece in the middle. Then built the basic shape looking at a 3D bath … 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
Our son has loved the Cars movie for a long time, and is completely in love with McQueen, Mater, and all of the crew. So the choice for his 3rd birthday was obvious – I knew he’d LOVE a McQueen cake, and he did!! Before I started, I had a look on this website and … 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
I used a chocolate cake with buttercream frosting covered in red fondant (purchased, getting the red color is almost impossible)for this Lightening McQueen Birthday Cake. The rest is decorated from fondant and then put it on a bed or green icing.
My son just had his 3rd birthday and is a huge “Cars” fan so I decided to make him a “Mater” cake. I started off with two sponge cakes 12”x8”. I used one for the base then the other I cut for the front bonnet and then for the back tray. I used royal icing, … Read more
This is a two tiered Cars cake I made for a 2 years old’s birthday party. Covered in fondant with fondant and buttercream details. This Cars scene is the outdoors scene with a road going around the bottom tier. They were very happy with the cake. It is a swirl chocolate and white cake with … Read more