This Tow Mater Birthday Cake is a hand sculpted cake (no mold), covered in fondant, hand painted (no airbrush) with gum-paste and hard candy details. This was my first attempt at sculpting a vehicle and was also the most detailed cake I have done as far as the sculpting goes. I did not use any … Read more
I made this homemade Lighting McQueen birthday cake for my son, Brady’s, 2nd birthday. It was real easy to make and only took about an hour to decorate. He loved it!! When we were cutting it he was crying, “No, don’t hurt him!” Too cute!! I took 3 sheet cakes and layered them on top … Read more
This Disney Cars The King Birthday Cake is a cake that I made for my son’s 4th birthday. It is his favorite Disney Car, The King. It’s my second attempt at fondant! Scary but not impossible. It’s also proof that you don’t need any special pans to bake a “Cars” cake! I started by baking … Read more
This Lightening McQueen Cars Birthday Cake I made for my little Blakey Bear when he turned 3 this year. It is a triple layer cake made with 3 boxes of Rainbow Chip cake mix. Rainbow Chip frosting between layers for the car. The 3rd layer is cut and leveled off to make the front window. … Read more
For all those CARS fans out there, here is a Homemade Chick Hicks Cake that made my 4 year old quite happy. I baked two 9 x 13 cake pans and then stacked the cakes and shaved them to shape. I’m still learning about how to ice a cake without the crumbs (next time, I’ll … Read more
For this Homemade Cars Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake I started with two 9 x 13 sheet cakes (one chocolate and one yellow) and ½ a cake mix (chocolate) in a loaf pan. I just made cupcakes with the extra batter and gave them away. So I iced between the two sheet cakes and carved the … Read more
Yes, this is another Lightning McQueen birthday cake. There are already many beautiful Lightning McQueen cakes on this site! It is too bad I’ve found this site after making the cake. There are a lot of good tips on the site! But about this cake. My mother and I made this cake for the celebration … Read more
This Lightning McQueen cake is just a 9X11 that I cut in half and stacked, then shaved to the shape I wanted with a knife. I was inspired by many cakes on this site and decided to try my own version with what I thought I could “handle”. The donuts are tires (which were almost … Read more
For my son’s second birthday, I decided to make a chocolate mocha Tow Mater cake. This cake not only looks great, but is SUPER tasty and it was easy to decorate! The icing is a chocolate mocha butter cream icing that is super easy to spread and very quick to make. 1/2 cup of shortening, … Read more
This Cars Birthday Cake started with a box mix. I baked the cake in 8 mini loaf pans and then cut the cakes to shape the individual cars. Using food coloring and Dunkin Hines White icing, I decorated each of the cakes. The detail was added using store purchased gel icing tubes. My husband made … Read more
When my son, Mason, was turning 6, he was very much into the Cars movie and baseball. He couldn’t decide what kind of birthday cake he wanted, so he asked for a cake that was Cars and baseball. I had to think a bit on that one, but finally I decided on a baseball diamond … Read more
My son loved the Cars movie so I made this cake for his third birthday. This is a Wiltons Lightning McQueen cake pan which is very usefull for making Car birthday cakes. I used decorating tips #3 for outline, # 16 for majority of vehicle and #21 for windows. I frosted the car in white … Read more