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
I made this cake for my grandson’s 2nd birthday. I have made a lot of character cakes before but have never used the plastic icing. What a challenge! Three hours later, I ended up rolling it out on Glad wrap, taped to the bench. The end result was finally worth it. I hope you all … Read more
With my son Jameson’s 2nd birthday approaching and his obsessive interest in the Disney Cars movie I knew I had to try to make it for him. So I started with 3 Dunkin Hein’s yellow cake mixes. I baked them in standard cake pans, and when they were cool, I stacked them and carved the … Read more
I attempt to make one cake a year. This year for my son’s 4th birthday everything was cars so I took this Mack Truck Cake to the extreme. The main feature of the cake was Mack along with 7 other cars. The other cars were Luigi, Finn McMissile, Mater, Lightning McQueen, Francesco, Fillmore, and Guido. … Read more
This 3D Tow Mater Cake was made from “scrap” pieces of cake, leftover from a wedding cake I recently made. I used fondant to cover cake (also leftover from the wedding cake), and royal icing for accessories. Air brushed the colors needed and brushed on accents w/dusting powders. The sheet cake was the 2nd cake … Read more
I made this Cars Birthday Cake for a 2 year old little boy who loves cars. His aunt asked me to make a simple cars themed cake, not necessarily DIS-Pixar but I couldn’t resist, I’m a McQueen fan. This was my first time putting a square cake on top of a round cake. I did … 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
After looking at the amazing cakes on this website, I became inspired to use marshmallow fondant after being discouraged to use fondant after a really bad first time with sugar fondant. Marshmallow fondant is amazing. Since it was my first time with mm, I am sure next time will be better. The Lightning McQueen cake! … Read more