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 found my inspiration for this Transportation Birthday Cake on this website. It was car #16, so thank you for the great idea!! I just added a variety of vehicles because our theme encompassed more than just cars. I used Wilton cookie cutters for the vehicles on the sides of the cake. I added my … Read more
This 1960 Cadillac Cake Design was made for my father-in-law’s 60th birthday. Appropriately , it is derived from his pride and joy, his 1960 Cadillac. The bottom is carrot cake, dirty iced with cream cheese icing with a hint of walnut flavor added, and is covered in blue marshmallow fondant. The Cadillac is shaped out … Read more
I started by making the car on the Homemade Car Cake. My son’s wife e mailed me some pictures of their car so I could make it out of icing. I started with a small block of white icing and added some flower paste icing this helps the icing to harden. I kneaded this well … Read more
I made this Transportation Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loves cars, tucks and wheels. I baked a sandwich cake (vanilla cake) and when cooled butter cream frosting in the middle and then covered the whole cake with vanilla icing. I used fondant for the decoration, cut different colors and shapes of trucks and … Read more
We made this Red Hot Car Cake to celebrate our son’s 17th birthday. As he was taking his 1st driving lesson on his birthday a car seemed to be the most appropriate design to make. We sculpted the car from 2 homemade sandwich cakes and used butter cream and strawberry jam to fill. The centre … Read more
This is my first 3D car cake. I have no idea what to do then I searched online and found this site which is useful. Now it’s my turn to share my experience. For this VW Car Cake I used pound cake. And use 3D cruiser car pan by Wilton then craft a little bit … Read more