My friend Dad has a show car and she thought it would be cool if I could put his car onto a birthday cake. I have been doing cakes for a while but never anything this detailed without a pattern. Usually my cakes are my own creations that I can make how I want but … Read more
I was helping host a baby shower for a friend at work who loves Nascar and had to come up with a cool idea for a race car theme for a baby GIRL! I came to this website and found lots of great ideas and went to work. I purchased the Wilton 3D race car … Read more
Our eldest boy wanted a racing car cake for his 9th birthday and I have always made plain cakes so I wanted to give this a go for him. This was my first attempt at making this cake and I was really worried it wouldn’t turn out. His favourite colour was orange so I made … Read more
My 5 yr old requested a Hotwheels cake with real flames for his birthday, and this is what we came up with! Basic supplies needed: Wilton 3D car cake pan, icing, cake sparkles (used blue, and red) and chocolate cream Oreos for wheels. Wilton car pan came with directions and baked up great. I did … Read more
I made this cake Homemade Snowmobile Racing Cake for my grandson’s birthday. He turned 16 and loves snowmobiles and football. The bottom layer is a 15×11 sheet cake. The other layers are two 13×9 curved in the shape of the race track. The figures are made of gumpaste and the snowmobiles I bought online. I … Read more
This Peterbilt Potbelly Livestock Truck Cake was my first fondant cake that I made for my nephew Trevor on his 7th birthday. It was going to be a surprise to him as to what the cake would be, but we knew it had to be this Peterbilt- he “LOVES” it. The cake was a challenge … Read more
This train cake was for my son’s 4th birthday. I have a cake pan for the loco-motive and used small bread pans for the freight cars. Butter cream icing – lots of it. Used chocolate cookies for the wheels and coupling and jelly beans as freight. Make your icing ahead of time, will save you … Read more
I made this train birthday cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used a big loaf pan and 2 smaller ones which worked out to be the same volume as 2 regular cake pans. I made 3 batches of cake, ending up with 3 big loaves and 6 small ones. For the engine, I used … Read more
Nolyn, now 2 years old as of May 4, 2009 loves his train set he got this year from Santa. I decided months prior to his birthday that we were having a Train Birthday Party. I was determined but had no idea where to start. I found plenty of Thomas the Train cake pans and … Read more
To start this Train Cake Design I used two box cake mixes. I used two different size loaf pans, a tomato paste can, a diced tomato can and also mini muffin pans. For the engine I used the bigger loaf pan on the bottom, used wooden skewers to hook half a smaller loaf pan on … Read more
I made this Train Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday from the ideas on your website and the Wilton website. He absolutely loved it and so did everyone else! I made 3 different flavours: Chocolate, Cherry Chip and Rainbow. I used cake mixes from the store and omitted the extra water (used only 1 … Read more
