My grandson was turning 2 and my daughter asked me to make the cake so immediately I thought of Mater because he LOVES the movie Cars and Mater is his favorite character. I started by making two 9×13 cakes for the base, filled them with Oreo cream filling and also frosted the top with the … Read more
My son is an avid Cars fan and just loves cars of any kind. For his third birthday we decided that nothing would be better than a Lightning Mcqueen cake. I have always made my children’s birthday cakes, but I have never done a three dimensional cake before. With much fear and a little prayer … Read more
This is a Lightning McQueen Birthday cake from the Cars movie. When the request came in for this one I was pretty nervous. I’ve done a truck before but never a car. I took the easy way out and bought the 3D car pan made by Wilton. Thank goodness! I’m not sure how well I … Read more
Using icing I transferred the picture of the car onto the Cars birthday cake. Using a background of white the colours in the cake stands out more. I do all the work free hand and work on order from customers. I do not do this professionally and I taught myself. This is a passion and … Read more
I would like to share my Car’s birthday cake that I did for a friend this past weekend. This cake celebrated a special little man’s 3rd birthday. The cake itself is a twelve inch square that is vanilla flavored. Half of the cake is filled with whipped white filling while the other half is filled … Read more
I made this Lightning McQueen Cake for my son’s third birthday. He, like most boys his age, is OBSESSED with the movie Cars and loves anything and everything associated with the movie. I haven’t made a sculpted cake before so I was nervous, the red fondant, the actual sculpting of the shape. There are quite … Read more
I am taking the Wilton Cake Decorating Class and made this Lightning McQueen Cake to practice for my 3 year old son who loves Lightning McQueen. It is my first cake! I used the Wilton Cars Cake pan and one cake mix box. I used tips 3 and 16. I followed the Wilton directions and … Read more
My son who turns 7 right before the release of Cars 2 wanted a Finn McMissile cake. As he is a brand-new character for Pixar, we didn’t have much to go on. We copied a picture from the Pixar homepage and my Mom hand-traced the outline and features of Finn in pencil. We cut that … Read more
I started off by baking 2 9×13 white cakes and one 8×8 white cake. I then stacked the 2 9x13s on top of each other and filled it with mocha frosting. Then, I stacked the square cake on top of that towards the back of the cake. Then I looked at my son’s toy Lightning … Read more
I found that I was quite good at making novelty cakes so when a friend asked if could create a character cake I jumped to the challenge. I looked for a picture on the internet for a cars character to get an idea of what to do. The cake is a plain sponge filled with … Read more
I made this Lightning Mcqueen Birthday Cake for my son’s 4th birthday. This is my first birthday cake. I visited this site more than a hundred times before making this one. Unfortunately I didn’t get dark red. So I used raspberry red. First I baked 3 rectangle shape cakes. Then I cut one and made … Read more
My son loves the Cars movie so I made this Cars Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for his 2nd birthday. I used the Wilton car pan and modified the back end to add a spoiler. I just copied (the best I could)from a picture of McQueen for the colors. Since the pan makes a small cake … Read more