I made this cake for my hockey billet. This was my second attempt at being creative with fondant after watching the cake shows on TV. Skate was formed using rice crispies molded in the shape of a skate and covered with fondant. I cut holes in the fondant to lace up the skate using just … Read more
This Waterfall and Kayak Birthday Cake was for a boy who was turning 13 and who is very into white water kayaking! I found this website and based my cake off of Waterfall Cakes #9 and #18. The cake is chocolate with chocolate buttercream frosting. The water is almond buttercream tinted blue with Wilton’s Gel. … Read more
I made this Disney Cars Racetrack Cake for my son’s 5th Birthday. I was quite relieved when he chose a round cake, over the more complicated 3D Lightening McQueen cakes! This is a 26cm round Madeira cake filled with “crema pasticcera” ( a thick vanilla custard style filling, very popular here in Italy). I covered … Read more
This cake was made for twin boys turning three years old who absolutely love the Disney Cars movie. I sculpted the cake from two 10-inch round cakes torted into three layers each. I used a piece of paper (a big one) and traced out two 10-inch rounds on the paper and then drew a big … Read more
I made this race track cake for my sons 6th Birthday (obviously) as he is really into Formula 1 and Lewis Hamilton. A race track seemed really appropriate. It really was very easy to make. I hired the number 6 cake tin from a cake decorating shop and made up the usual 8-8-8-4 cake batter … Read more
I used a 9×13 for the bottom of the Nascar Birthday Cake. I colored fondant/gum paste black and cut out checkerboard squares. The car was cut and shaped from another 9×13 cake. I added the detailing from looking at a picture online.
My son wanted a Cars theme for his birthday and I was a bit apprehensive about fashioning a Lightning McQueen, so we compromised. I made him a “race track” in the shape of a 5 and then added his Cars figures that he already had. I just used box cake mix and white frosting colored … Read more
I created this racetrack birthday cake for my great-nephew’s 4th birthday. I designed it first on paper so that I would have the exact measurements for cutting the cake pieces and frosting the design. I used a large rectangular pan for the center and large round pan for the sides. I used Nabisco Sugar Wafers … Read more
This turned out to be one of those tricky race car picture cakes because I didnt use a car-shaped pan. I made if for my grandchild. It is a rather funny, but cute cake, modeled after a ’69 Mustang. I enjoyed doing this and my son, Daniel, 16, helped me with the logistics of it. … Read more
My inspiration for my sons #3 race car cake came from a cake on this website shaped like the number 2. I started with 2 boxes of Duncan Hines Devil’s Food Cake and black, yellow and green Wilton food coloring (in the little jars) and two cans of frosting…one white one chocolate. If I did … Read more
I made this race track cake for my three year old sons birthday who loves playing on his race track toy. I started by making two equal size same height round chocolate cakes then shaped one of the cakes to fit well into the other one to form a figure ‘8’. I iced the cake … 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