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
I just started making cakes and a friend requested the Cars cake. Well, you know us cake decorators don’t back down from a challenge. This is how we learn, right! Well, it was a big hit. The little boys even tried to play with it!
I was interested in making cakes, so when I said I’d make my first cake for my nephew’s 3rd birthday, I thought a McQueen cake would be easy. It took a lot longer than I thought. The bottom cake is made from a 1/2 sheet cake pan. The top cake is the Lightning McQueen Wilton … Read more
My son LOVES the movie “Cars” so I decided to try to make him a Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake. This is the first time that I have ever attempted something like this. After applying all the frosting, my hands were killing me!! I made it by using 2 full size cakes and stacking them. I … Read more
I made this Tow Mater Birthday Cake for a friend’s son’s birthday party. My fiance’ recommended me and I was able to do whatever I wanted as long as it was within their “Cars” (Disney) theme. So this is what I surprised them with. Now they have me do a cake for them every year! … Read more
For my twin boys’ fifth birthday, they each requested a car cake from Cars 2. One wanted Shu Todoroki and the other, Finn McMissile. It was a big undertaking as these were the first cars that I’ve tried. I started baking and making fondant (homemade MMF) the week prior to their party. I baked three … Read more
