My grandson was turning 2 and my daughter asked me to make the cake so immediately I thought of Mater because he LOVES the movie Cars and Mater is his favorite character. I started by making two 9×13 cakes for the base, filled them with Oreo cream filling and also frosted the top with the … Read more

I started this Homemade Towmater Birthday Cake with a loaf pan and two 8×11 cakes. Also used a jelly roll pan so I could add height where I wanted and made 5 cupcakes for the wheels and one for the engine piece in the middle. Then built the basic shape looking at a 3D bath … Read more

My son just had his 3rd birthday and is a huge “Cars” fan so I decided to make him a “Mater” cake. I started off with two sponge cakes 12”x8”. I used one for the base then the other I cut for the front bonnet and then for the back tray. I used royal icing, … 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

This 3D Tow Mater Cake was made from “scrap” pieces of cake, leftover from a wedding cake I recently made. I used fondant to cover cake (also leftover from the wedding cake), and royal icing for accessories. Air brushed the colors needed and brushed on accents w/dusting powders. The sheet cake was the 2nd cake … Read more

I got this idea for a Mater cake from another submission on your page but I put my own twist on it. I did not do any carving. I used 3 cake mixes which was made in 2 8×11 pans and 3 loaf pans. I positioned the cakes to form the tow-truck and used 1 … Read more

Well, three years in a row my son has requested a Cars cake. Mater was bound to make the list eventually. This was the year. I think I put more effort into this Tow Mater cake than any to date. It was the most challenging structurally I’ve done so far. The truck body was carved … Read more

This Tow Mater Cake is frosted with butter cream because fondant and I do not get along! I used 2 half sheet cakes and cut off about 2 inches, lengthwise from each cake to make the cab. I did use homemade fondant for the windows, eyes and teeth. I used full size chocolate donuts for … Read more

A friend’s Mum asked if I could please make her daughter a Mater birthday cake for her 18th birthday. This would be a huge undertaking on my part, as I like things to be done as authentic as possible, and his Rigging concerned me greatly! All I could say, was I would “try” to do … 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

This Homemade Tow Mater Cake was for my boss’s nephew. This was my first attempt at carving. The cake was 4 box mixes. The first two were for the 11″x15″sheet pan, the other two were used for the two loaf cakes. I covered the sheet cake with a crumbcoat of buttercream, used crushed graham crackers … Read more