A friend wanted Tow Mater for her little girl, so I went with black and pink checkerboard for the bottom square. The homemade Tow Mater birthday cake was made using two cakes baked in bread pans. To keep it from looking so square I use marshmallow treats to sculpt curved edges, before I iced with … Read more
For my son’s second birthday, I decided to make a chocolate mocha Tow Mater cake. This cake not only looks great, but is SUPER tasty and it was easy to decorate! The icing is a chocolate mocha butter cream icing that is super easy to spread and very quick to make. 1/2 cup of shortening, … Read more
My 3 year old requested a Mater cake for his birthday. After doing some research through the pages here of what others have done, I managed to pull it off. My first cake flopped which worked in my favor as it created just the right dip for the bonnet and tray. The I made another … Read more
This Homemade Towmater Birthday Cake was my first attempt at a 3D cake. My youngest wanted a Tow Mater cake for his 2nd b-day. It took me a few days to finish. I used many ideas from photos to make this cake. A 9×13 cake pan was used and the body was white cream frosting … Read more
This Tow Mater cake was for my niece’s 4th birthday. She loved the movie Cars and told me that’s what she wanted. I made a chocolate cream cheese pound cake. I carved the cake and covered it in fondant, which was the first time I’d ever used fondant. It took a while to do cover … Read more
This Tow Mater (From the movie Cars) cake was a trial run for my friends son’s birthday in March and is made in a smaller scale than I will make it in March. The body of Tow Mater is made of a sponge cake which I sculptured into the shape based on a picture of … 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 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
My son is a huge fan of the movie “Cars” so I made him a Cars cake. I made two pound cakes. I put one whole one down for the body and the other one I cut in half for the cab and the hood area. I just used chocolate frosting and a variety of … Read more
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