I printed this image off the internet. Just a random pic of Lightning. From there I copied and enlarged the image. Once I cut out the basic shape, I laid it on top of my Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake which I crumb coated and then after 30 minutes applied the final layer of buttercream. I … Read more
This lightning McQueen cake was relatively simple to do but took me lots of time. I used my son’s Lightning McQueen radio as a guide for this project. I cooked three 9X13 cakes. Then I cut it to match McQueen shape. I used a fourth cake (chocolate) to cut the wheels. I had trouble for … Read more
This Tow Mater Birthday Cake was a first attempt at using marshmallow fondant. I am terrible with buttercream, so when my nephew wanted a Mater cake, I decided to try the fondant that is supposed to taste good! I used 2 carved Sara Lee Frozen Pound Cakes for the truck, and a single cake mix … Read more
For my son’s 3rd birthday he wanted a cake with Lightning McQueen, Doc Hudson and Mater. So I decided to replicate the scene where Doc & McQueen are racing in the desert and McQueen falls down the cliff into the cactus bushes. For this homemade Cars birthday cake I started out with two 9”x13” layers. … Read more
My son loves the movie Cars and also loves fire trucks so it made sense to try to replicate “Red” the fire truck from the movie. The Red the fire truck from Cars cake is supported on plywood with dowel axles and wheels that roll. The wheel wells were round cardboard boxes purchased at a … 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
I made this Cars cake for my husbands grandfather’s 75th birthday. He loves the movie Cars and Mater is his favorite character. To get the shape for my cakes I either draw out a pattern/template (on butcher paper) or find a clip art picture on the internet. You can enlarge pictures in several different programs … Read more
The idea came from the movie Cars. My son (3rd birthday) is crazy about this movie so I made him a cars birthday cake. I made a simple white cake mix and a lot of colors (same as the movie). I decorated everything in those colors and it was a great party.
For my son’s 3rd birthday he wanted a “Cars” cake with McQueen, Mater and the tractor on it. I saw a Cars cake on this site with the number for a road and added to it. I bought the cake undecorated at Publix and did all the decorations myself. I made a number 3 that … Read more
I used a cake pan in the shape of a car and cut it to resemble a shape of a Lightning McQueen cake. First I used buttercream icing to shape and mold the cake to achieve the contours I desired. Then I covered the cake with red fondant and using a picture as my guide. … Read more
I made this Lightning Mcqueen Disney Car cake for a four year old boy. The cake was chocolate with vanilla buttercream. The car was placed on a 1/4 sheet of smoothed buttercream, and frosted with buttercream-piped stars. The letters, car tires, eyes, lightning bolt and stars were fondant.