For my son’s fourth birthday he wanted a Lighting McQueen cake. After baking a couple Betty Crocker box cake mixes in two 9×11 pans, I allowed them to cool, wrapped them in plastic wrap and put them in the freezer. Once frozen, I was able to cut, stack and carve them into the car shape. … Read more
This Cars 2 cake is made from 2-6 inch layers on top and 2-10 inch layers on the bottom. Wooden dowels are used in bottom layers to support the top and one long dowel down the center of all to keep top from sliding. The flavors were just vanilla cake with butter cream icing as requested by … Read more
Finn McMissile was created and sculpted from a number of sponge layers made in a rectangular tin which measured 8 x 12 inches. The sculpting was fairly easy to do by following different pictures from different angles of Finn. The cake was then filled with a mixture of jam and butter cream and a crumb … Read more
This Disney Cars birthday cake took me 4 to 5 hours to make, the base consist of two half sheet cakes stacked, then to make the car I baked one 9×13 cut in half and stacked it. Than I carved it out into the shape I wanted. I hand piped the whole base….which takes for … Read more
My hubby and myself made this Lightning McQueen birthday cake at home. We do this a lot now for friends and family. This cake was made from chocolate sponge and covered with homemade sugar paste colored red. Before we started the cake we had pre piped and flooded the run out for the Rust-eze logo on the bonnet of … Read more
My son wanted a green Mack truck cake for his 3rd birthday. I made a 9 x 13 rectangular chocolate cake. I cut 2 long rectangles and stacked them and two squares and stacked them. I carved the semi to the correct shape. I covered the cake with a light layer of butter cream frosting. … Read more
I had decided to plan my son’s party and make his 2nd birthday cake all based on the Disney Cars movie, because of his love of playing with cars, hot wheels, and anything that generally rolls. We have also watched the movie a couple of times and he seemed to really enjoy it. After looking … Read more
This Disney Cars birthday cake is the birthday cake I made back in Feb. for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loves all the Disney Cars movies and I wanted to make him something really special. He had become a big brother in November, so I wanted to go the extra mile for his birthday! The cake … Read more
My son loves Mater so this Tow Mater cake was my first adventurous go at making a sculptured cake for him for his 3rd birthday. All up it probably took about 7 hours to make but the reaction from everyone made it so worth it and my son absolutely loved it. I started off by using … Read more
This was my first attempt to carve a Tow Mater cake from scratch without molds. I used some of the ideas from others on this page. I used a 12×18 sheet cake for the bottom (decorate and frost last). I used four 9×13 rectangle cakes stacked up and carved a tow truck shape from it. … Read more
I made this Lightning Mcqueen cake for my nephew’s 1st birthday. The car cake pan was Wiltons but there wasn’t enough cake so I put it on top of a 13×9 rectangle pan. The frosting I made myself from my grandmother’s recipe. I decorated the base like a road and used edible candy lightning bolts … Read more
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