I made this cake for my friend’s son for his 2nd birthday. I wanted to use the character cake pan, because he is so detailed – but I knew it would not be big enough. So I used a 14 -inch round 2-layer cake for the base, then used the Wilton character cake pan for … Read more
I made this homemade Lightning McQueen cake for my cousin’s son’s 3rd birthday. I used Wilton’s Lightning McQueen pan, as well as a half sheet cake. I had some trouble seeing the lines on the car cake so some is free hand is some is following the imprints on the cake. If you can follow … Read more
My son wanted a Cars and Mater tall tales party! I got the ideas for the Homemade Mater Birthday Cupcakes from this website and my own. I made two 8″ round cake, 1 chocolate 1 vanilla and strawberry filling then iced them with buttercream (from Wilton recipe) to decorate. I used white frosty around the … Read more
This CARS 2 “Finn McMissile” cake was made for our son’s 5th birthday. This was our first attempt actually making fondant (using marshmallows) for a cake instead of buying ready made. It was very easy to make and the texture of the fondant made it nice to work with and it didn’t dry out as … Read more
We made this Lightning McQueen Cars Cake for our son’s 4th birthday party. We used a picture from Wilton for inspiration. It was truly a family effort! I pulled in my husband and my mom to get this done. My husband, who is not a cake artist, did a great job piping the candy car. … Read more
I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday. I started out by baking a chocolate cake in a 3D car shaped tin I got from our local cake specialty shop. It had to be baked for a long time as there was so much mixture it took a long time … Read more
I made this Lightning McQueen cake for my son’s “friend party” for his 6th birthday. He is a big Cars fan, so of course I could not disappoint. I made two 9×13 cakes, and carved the car shape out of that. I originally wanted to cover it with marshmallow fondant, but it kept ripping and … Read more
This Tow Mater cake was for my niece’s 4th birthday. She loved the movie Cars and told me that’s what she wanted. I made a chocolate cream cheese pound cake. I carved the cake and covered it in fondant, which was the first time I’d ever used fondant. It took a while to do cover … Read more
Thanks to several of you who previously submitted to this site. Using your ideas along with several of our own we came up with this Cars Birthday Cake for our son’s fourth birthday. The cake was made from two boxed cake mixes. Each was baked in a 9×9 pan and I placed them next to … Read more
I made this Nascar cake for my nephew Ryan’s 8th birthday. I used the Nascar cake pan, and purchased the Nascar food color kit (red, blue, yellow and black). My brother-in-law, Ryan’s dad, provided a Nascar catalog/program that I used to copy the car design. I even cut out an ad to a Dale Jr. … Read more
This is only the second character cake I made. It was for a co-workers grandson’s third birthday and he only wanted Car birthday cakes. I used the Wilton Lightning McQueen pan and the Wiltons colors to tint the icing. I outlined the details in black and white with Wilton tip#2 and then starred (tip #16) … Read more
I made this Lightning McQueen cake for a friends grandson’s second birthday. I got the idea from the 2007 Wilton yearbook and this site. I used two boxes of rainbow bit cake mix to make two layers. I then iced half the cake in brown and half in sky blue. I added the checkered design … Read more