This Bumble Bee car cake is a butter cake made for my 1 year old son’s birthday. First attempt, not completely happy with frosting (Vienna creme) but can live with for first attempt. Extra edible bits to the car include: Licorice bumpers front and back, as well as trim, door handles, rear vision mirrors and … Read more
For my son’s first birthday I decided to go with a theme of ‘cars’. I didn’t want to go too ‘theme’ crazy so I decided to stay away from characters etc. and made a Car Birthday Cake Design. I used the Wilton 3D cruiser pan. It took a couple of tries (3) to get the … Read more
This Car Birthday Cake was made with butter cream icing (for the glue) and fondant. It took me about 8 hours to complete this cake including baking. I used an airbrush machine to color the cake and I mixed a tad of black icing gel into white fondant to get the grey/silver for the mag … Read more
My son loved cars right from an early age so for his first birthday I thought I would make him a Beetle’ car birthday cake. (His grandmother had sent him a ‘beetle’ which was his favorite). I made a round sponge cake and cut a bit off each side to make a rectangle. I used … Read more
I made this Race Car Birthday Cake for my nephew’s first birthday. His mom asked me to make a race car cake that was NOT from the movie Cars or a Nascar cake. That left me with no cake pan options at my local stores to use. I started with two 9×13 cakes layered with … Read more
I baked this F1 Mercedes 45th Birthday Cake for my husband’s birthday. Three days before the time, I baked a very moist chocolate cake. I baked 1 big cake and 2 smaller ones. I molded and shaped the cake in a car shape, and put chocolate icing on it. I then covered the cake in … Read more
I made this cake for my sons 8th birthday party. The party was held in Snow City so I decided to put the cake in snow environment too. He is into Hotwheels, and had told me particularly what colors he wanted his car cake to be. I made a large loaf cake and cut the … Read more
I used a square pan and a pattern my nephew found on the back of some Cars invitations. I was so flattered that he asked me if I could make him a race car cake like the one in the picture he cut out and sent me! I copied the idea from the black and … Read more
For my Dad’s birthday this year, I decided to create an RV out of cake and fondant. My parents just bought a brand new camper not even a week ago, but my Dad really wanted an RV… so that’s just what I got him! I used two 13×9 sheet cake pans, cut them both in … Read more
My son requested a “snowplow” party for his 4th birthday. Not finding anything quite like this for a cake, I improvised a Snowplow Cake using a basic idea for a truck cake and added the plow. I used 3 frozen pre-prepared pound cakes, and cut them into the body, the cab, the axles and the … Read more
This Flat Nose Truck Cake is a birthday cake I made for my dad’s 80th birthday, as it was his 80th I want to make him a cake that he’d really love and as my dad Fred was a Truck driver 30 odd years and I knew he’d love a cake like this. I was … Read more
I started with three different kinds of cake mixes, chocolate, rainbow & lemon. I used a large loaf pan for the main part and mini disposable loaf pans for the cars. The first train has half a mini loaf on top. And on top of that is just a slice of a mini loaf cake. … Read more