This Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake is my version of a simple 3D Lightning Mcqueen cake for the 4th birthday of my son KURT CHESTER. It is a vanilla cake with a very light marble effect then, I covered it with fondant. For the rust-eze logo, I printed it on a photo paper, cut it & … Read more
I made this Roary the Racing Car Cake in two baking tins and jam and creamed them and stacked them to the height needed so that I could start cutting the cake into the shape of Rory. Cutting freehand with no pattern you could see the shape Rory was going to be before it was … Read more
I made this Homemade Tow Mater 3rd Birthday Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. Tow Mater was made from two 9 x 13 pound cake loaves. Pound cake is denser and easier to carve and use for shaped 3D cakes. I froze both loaves. I then cut one loaf to use for the cab and … Read more
My older son now has turned 5 and his next request was a Lightning Mcqueen Birthday Cake. Oh dear, this one was a tricky one as he wanted it in 3D. After weeks of planning and designing I thought I would use the same style which I had used for the Spiderman cake, so I … Read more
My son really loves the movie Cars, especially Lightning McQueen. I had been asking him what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday and he asked for a Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake. I didn’t know where to begin. I decided to start doing research on the internet and I came across this site. … Read more
I decided that I would start making my child’s birthday cakes and this Lightening McQueen cake was my first attempt at it. I was not sure what to expect but he really liked the movie Cars and I really wanted to make something special for him. I used a Wilton shaped cake pan (the trick … Read more
My son is crazy about the Cars movies. He has already had cakes or most of the cars characters from the 1st movie and he had his heart set on a character from the new movie (even though it wasn’t even out yet). He had read a few stories about Cars 2 and really liked … Read more
This Cars cake was made for one of my dearest friend’s one year old boy, as a birthday gift. The cake looks like a white walled tire from the view above. The inside was colored blue (as in Dinoco Blue in the ‘Cars’ movie) by baking a vanilla cake and placing blue food coloring throughout … Read more
This Cars cake was made for my co-workers sons who was turning five. The Wilton Cruiser cake pan was used for this cake. The bottom portion of the cake was made using a 12X12 cake pan. I cut the top of the Cruiser cake and a portion of the hood area to get the general … Read more
The Lightning McQueen cake was done with the Wilton cake pan. The other cake is a 1/4 sheet. Both cakes are two layers. I sprayed the sheet cake green, used crushed graham crackers for the road and the grass tip for the grass and the grass border. The flags were bought at a party store … Read more
I got my inspiration for this Lightning McQueen cake from Rebeccas NASCAR car cake. I baked one 10″ and one 12″ cake. I cut the top tier to about 7″ to have the slop. Then accessorized for the cake the street signs signal, lights and clouds which were make of fondant about two days before … Read more
My 3 year old requested a Mater cake for his birthday. After doing some research through the pages here of what others have done, I managed to pull it off. My first cake flopped which worked in my favor as it created just the right dip for the bonnet and tray. The I made another … Read more