I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my nephew’s 3rd birthday and really bit off more than I could decorate with this cake. I will never be making it again unfortunately!!! The cakes used to make this were two large baking dish sized trays – like a slab cake sized. I drew up … Read more
This Tow Mater Cake is my favorite cake that I have made so far. It was for a cousin’s birthday party and they requested a mater cake. I had never attempted to make a 3d cake and figured now was as good as time as any and I was very proud of the results. I … Read more
I baked a 9×13 cake and iced it with cream cheese frosting. Then I printed a picture of Mater from the computer and used it to look at while drawing the figure on the cake. I first used a skewer stick as my “pencil” to draw in the frosting and then I went back with … Read more
My 4 year old twins desperately wanted a Disney’s Cars birthday party with a race cake, so I decided to do a dirt track scene using some Cars toys as decorations. I baked one 10″x14″ layer and two 9″x13″ layers, stacked them so that they aligned on along the left side of the cake, and … Read more
This is a Chewall Tractor Cake from the Movie Cars, from the tractor tipping scene. It is a chocolate cake with mocha icing covered in fondant. Painted details were dry brushed on to create a “rusted” effect. The smoke stack is a Tootsie roll and the wheels are Crueller doughnuts dipped in a mixture of … Read more
This Cars cake is covered with MMF. I put too much crisco in the red and I smudged black all over. But my son loved it anyway.
I made a large square chocolate butter cake then chopped it up into shapes and put them together with royal icing. I then used almond icing to cover the cake and smoothed it over with sugar water as I went. I painted the cake with red food coloring mixed with sugar syrup. The numbers and … Read more
I used two loaf pans for this cars cake. One was a little smaller than the other. I shaped the cakes and then frosted with buttercream then I used fondant to cover the whole thing. I airbrushed the sides and hand painted the back. The rope is made of fondant.I cut gumdrops for the parking … Read more
This cars birthday cake was for my sons 3rd birthday. He wanted to have a “Cars” theme from the Disney movie. He wanted to have Lightning McQueen and Sally. I used the Lightning McQueen Wilton cake pan and iced it to look like McQueen. Then for Sally, I used the same pan, only I followed … Read more
I made this Lightning Mcqueen cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I bought some mini cars from the Car movie and added it on my cake. It was a full sheet cake with Lightning Mcqueen car cake on top of it. I had so much fun doing this cake and it was a success birthday … Read more
Here is a Lightning McQueen cake. What an awesome job my partner made! I was a bit worried about trying to make it for our daughter’s 3rd birthday, and I’m positive I could not have done a better job. All the kids loved it. We used pettinice with a red and black powder dye as … Read more
I started the Tow Mater birthday cake with a Wilton 3-D Cruiser cake pan and a 4×8 loaf pan. I used a pound cake recipe as the texture makes it easier to cut and trim. I cut the Cruiser cake just behind the front window and attached the loaf cake with a dowel rod from … Read more