I made a Mater cake for our son Cameron’s fourth birthday. The base of the cake was two 9″ x 13″ cakes, layered with filling in between and frosted with buttercream. The sand was actually crushed graham crackers and the road was crushed Oreo cookies. Mater was carved from two frozen Sarah Lee pound cakes. … Read more
I have been gearing up to make my twin daughters birthday cakes the second week in July ( having 2 parties). So I decided to make their cakes myself. This has led to me having ‘practice’ cakes. This Cars Birthday Cake is my third cake in about a month. I made two fondant cakes, but … Read more
My daughter had a fascination with Frank the Combine from Cars. For her 2nd birthday, I created a Frank cake to go along with the Cars Tractor Tippin’ theme. I made a 1/2 sheet cake and iced it with a layer of white frosting tinted a light brown for a “dirt” base as my crumble … Read more
My son loves the movie Cars. My husband wanted to make him a Lightening McQueen cake, but wanted to something more then the normal cake pan. He baked two 13 X 9 sheet cakes and one 8 1/2 x 4 1/2. He stacked the 2 large cakes and carved them into the shape of the … Read more
Our soon to be 4 year old son Josh is infatuated with anything with wheels, particularly Roary, Mater and Lightning McQueen. After making a Mater cake (which was incredibly time consuming) for his 3rd birthday we thought we would make a Roary The Racing Car Cake. Running out of time we thought we would cheat … Read more
The Lightning McQueen cake was for my son’s 3rd birthday! This is my first time covering a cake in fondant. I have been making cakes now for 4 years and really enjoy the time spent making them. For the body of this cake, I used two 9×13 sheet cakes and for the cab I used … Read more
The butter cream frosting is a very simple recipe with little twists – adding an extra tbsp of meringue powder. Mix in the desired colors for the frosting. Colors will darken as they sit for a while. So do not worry if you are not able to get the perfect black (from the gray) or … Read more
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