My youngest son was fascinated with the movie “Cars” and asked me to please make him a Lightening McQueen Birthday Cake for his birthday. As he always takes a cake in to school to share, this was one he wanted, so he could show off mum’s efforts! The pan was bought from Ebay and is … Read more
I used 2, 10 inch rounds and 2, 6 inch rounds for this Disney Cars Cake. This was my first time using fondant which I used to make the checkerboard pieces and the road (I ran out of road and would do it all the way around next time). I then purchased sugars from my … Read more
When I asked my son what he wanted for his cake for his third birthday, I was expecting him to say “chocolate”. Boy was I surprised when he asked for Lightning McQueen and Tow Mater from the movie Cars. So I try to clarify: ” you mean a cake with toy cars on top, right?”. … Read more
I baked my nephew’s favorite character from Disney “Cars”, a Lightning McQueen Cake. The base is chocolate cake baked in an 8×12 pan. I didn’t have time to bake another cake for the roof so I used Styrofoam. After I sculpted the roof I wrapped it in aluminum foil and attached it to the cake … Read more
I LOVE making cakes!! So when my nephew’s birthday rolled around I jumped at the chance to make this Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake! I started out with a 9″ round “Funfetti” cake(from Betty Crocker). After baking and cooling, I then frosted with a whipped vanilla frosting. I piped the outline of the road with black … Read more
My nephew loves the movie Cars, and his favorite character is Lighting McQueen, so, I made him this Lightning McQueen cake. It was kind of easy to do, because I used the Wilton Lighting McQueen cake pan. You could use any 2-layer cake mix. I actually make my cakes from scratch. I really didn’t follow … Read more
This Mater Birthday Cake was by request from my son who was turning 3. He wanted Mater and there’s no pan for that. I researched the web and found several ideas, including some from this great site. I used 2 loaf pans with 2 boxes of carrot cake (his favorite). One loaf was left whole … Read more
This Cars Birthday Cake is the first cake I’ve made. I made this for my son’s 3rd birthday since he loves Disney Cars. I used the Wilton Cars cake pan and used fondant for the checker board background. For the car I used buttercream frosting. I got the inspiration from the other cakes on this … Read more
So I used the instructions for decorating from the Wilton website but made my own cake. I made two large square car birthday cakes then cut them to shape and decorated using butter icing (colored using Wilton paste).
My sister Wendy helped create this Lightning McQueen cake. We dyed fondant and used it to cover the race track which was made out of two 9×13 cakes. The Lightning McQueen car was sculpted out of a pound cake (the density of the pound cake made it easier to carve) using a tiny car as … Read more
My son just had his third birthday and is a huge “Cars” fan so I decided to make him a “Mater” cake. I started off with two cake mixes, one in a 9×13″ pan, the other split between a loaf pan and a 9×9″ pan. I froze these so they would be easier to work … Read more
With the designing help of my husband and mom we came up with a really cool concept for my daughters third birthday Cars cake. I used, I think it was, a 12 inch round and a 10 inch round, if you can find bigger pans it would be better, because I wanted the cars that … Read more