This Lightning McQueen cake used three Duncan Hines cake mixes. I baked two vanillas in a large rectangular pan and one chocolate in the Wilton Cars pan. The large cake was trimmed flat and frosted white with homemade buttercream icing. I placed the Cars cake on top of the rectangle cake in the center and … Read more
My hubby helped on this one. I took the Wiltons really big sheet cake pan and that takes two cake mixes plus another 8″round, baked it and then I cut to the shape I needed it to be for a Cars cake. One half I used for the back and then the other half I … Read more
This Lightning Mcqueen cake was for my son’s 2nd birthday, he is obsessed with Cars. This is a 18×13 in pan and a Wilton car mold on top. I used the Wilton “Cars” dye kit and colored the frosting. After the cakes were baked and cooled I shaved down the car shape from the Wilton … Read more
This Lightning McQueen Cake was for my son’s 7th birthday party. I used a 1/2 sheet cake pan for this, then outlined the character on the top. It was filled with with tip #3 and #16 for the body. I followed the color from a picture, and the result was a huge hit! For the … Read more
My boy (Kent Michael) is turning two and loves the movie Cars and Lightning McQueen especially. So I researched and found out how to make the marshmallow fondant and tried my hand at cake making/ decorating. This Lightning McQueen Cake is not perfect by any means and my wife finally had to stop me from … Read more
I hate to bake, but love to decorate, cakes! So I buy a cake with just the white icing and go from there. For my grandson’s second birthday the theme was Cars so had to make him a Cars Birthday Cake. Fondant checkerboard sides and fondant track, the rest is buttercream icing, decorated with the … Read more
I made this cake for my friend’s son for his 2nd birthday. I wanted to use the character cake pan, because he is so detailed – but I knew it would not be big enough. So I used a 14 -inch round 2-layer cake for the base, then used the Wilton character cake pan for … Read more
I made this homemade Lightning McQueen cake for my cousin’s son’s 3rd birthday. I used Wilton’s Lightning McQueen pan, as well as a half sheet cake. I had some trouble seeing the lines on the car cake so some is free hand is some is following the imprints on the cake. If you can follow … Read more
My son wanted a Cars and Mater tall tales party! I got the ideas for the Homemade Mater Birthday Cupcakes from this website and my own. I made two 8″ round cake, 1 chocolate 1 vanilla and strawberry filling then iced them with buttercream (from Wilton recipe) to decorate. I used white frosty around the … Read more
This CARS 2 “Finn McMissile” cake was made for our son’s 5th birthday. This was our first attempt actually making fondant (using marshmallows) for a cake instead of buying ready made. It was very easy to make and the texture of the fondant made it nice to work with and it didn’t dry out as … Read more
We made this Lightning McQueen Cars Cake for our son’s 4th birthday party. We used a picture from Wilton for inspiration. It was truly a family effort! I pulled in my husband and my mom to get this done. My husband, who is not a cake artist, did a great job piping the candy car. … Read more
I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday. I started out by baking a chocolate cake in a 3D car shaped tin I got from our local cake specialty shop. It had to be baked for a long time as there was so much mixture it took a long time … Read more