I made this Lightning McQueen cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used the Wilton 3D car cake tin. I sliced the roof on an angle and used the cutoff for the spoiler. I decorated using royal icing. Started making the accessories (tires, lightning bolts, eye, etc). Then rolled out a rectangular piece of red … Read more
I started this Tow Mater Cake Idea with a chocolate 13 x 9 cake. After it was cooled and chilled I cut in half length wise. On half I cut a little curve off on end for the front of the truck and then iced the top of this piece. The other half I cut … Read more
This Cars Road Birthday Cake was made for my son’s 2nd birthday. About a week before his birthday, he became obsessed with Cars! The bottom tier is made of yellow cake. I used 1 1/2 recipes to make three big layers. It’s filled with buttercream and covered with fondant. I made the signs first. Days … Read more
I made this Tow Mater cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. Cooper loves the Cars movies and especially Mater. I think his first words were “Dad Gum!”. Lol. I started by making the towing system out of fondant mixed with gumpaste. I used dowel rods in the middle to keep them straight and just sculpted … 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
I made this kids cake using a Wilton long cake pan. Instead of having it right on the tinfoil, I put it up on a box the same length as the cake itself. I tinted the frosting and used Twizzlers, Skittles and Oreos for the wheels.
I made this Cars birthday cake for my boys joint birthday party. They love cars and they loved the movie. It is a chocolate sheet cake covered with buttercream frosting. I used a ruler to make the squares. The round cake is white cake covered with buttercream frosting as well. I added the plastic cars … Read more
This Cars cake was made using the Wilton Car’s pan and 2 10″ round Wilton cake pans. I had taken the basic Wilton cake decorating class and decided that it was time to attempt a cake that was a little more challenging than what I had done in the past. The Car’s pan took 1 … Read more
One night my wife and I were watching Ace of Cakes on the Food Network. I made a comment along the lines of “I could do that”. Well, she more or less told me to prove it and since we had one of our son’s having a birthday coming up, I asked him what kind … Read more
I made this Cars birthday cake for my youngest son’s 3rd birthday. I used a white cake and buttercream frosting. I used crushed Oreos for the “road” and used the Wilton grass tip for the grass spots and the borders. For the brown, I added cocoa to the buttercream and a little brown gel paste … Read more
I did this Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for a good friend’s grandson’s birthday. The cake was a hit with everyone! I enjoyed doing this cake as with all the cakes I have done. I am getting better all the time. I think the clouds and sun makes this cake stand out. I changed up the … Read more