I found wonderful inspiration for my son’s 3rd Birthday cake from this site. Thank you all for your ideas for a Cars 3rd Birthday Cake . My son loves the movie “CARS” and he and I were looking at cakes on this site. We came across a couple that we liked and I modified the … Read more
This Cars Cake is actually cupcakes! It’s a pull-apart-cake that I sent into daycare when my son turned 3. I made 24 rainbow cupcakes (I dyed vanilla batter several different colors, then spooned them into the cupcake liners, one by one for a Tye dyed effect). I then got a poster board and used a … Read more
I made this special Homemade 4th Birthday Racetrack Cake for my son’s 4th birthday to go with his “Cars” themed party. I used a 12×18 pan and three boxes of cake mix to make the cake. While it was cooling, I cut out a large number 4 out of posterboard, measured to the exact size … Read more
A friend enjoys everything cars, so I decided to make him a racecar track cake. He was turning 40. I first baked a chocolate box-cake mix on a cookie tray, so it was large but thin. (I would probably bake two of them next time and sandwich them together). I then cut out on paper … Read more
I made this Hotwheels 4th Birthday Race Track Cake for my son’s 4th birthday. He is Hotwheels crazy! I got the idea after seeing a similar cake made as a number 2. To make the number 4 shape, I used several mini “foil bread pans” that I got at my local supermarket. This allowed me … Read more
The sponge is chiffon cake. I baked the base cake in a lasagna dish and carved the corner. For the race car part, I baked in a pound cake pan and carved into the sports car shape. For the tires, I used black licorice. Filling is apricot layer plus heavy whipping cream (vanilla). For the … Read more
The emblem on this cake will need at least 48 hours to dry and harden so plan accordingly and make the emblem plenty of time in advance. You can use my race car picture or a race car picture from the internet to help you while you do this. I used regular boxed cake mixes … Read more
I got this idea for a race track cake from this web site and just made modifications. It is made up of two box cake mixes. One baked in a 9″x13″ pan and the other in two 9″ round pans. I cut one of the round cakes in half and put one half on each … Read more
I got some great ideas for race track cakes from this website to make this sixth birthday cake for my son, so thank you! I used a two cake mix pan and made a rectangular cake, half chocolate and half yellow, marbled in the middle. I frosted the whole cake with a layer of white … Read more
I made two 14 inch round cakes for this Cars Racetrack Birthday Cake using Wilton’s Perfection pans. I cut a portion of the middle of each cake so that they would touch and form an 8. I purchased white buttercream frosting from our local bakery and tinted a portion black and green and left the … Read more
This Hot Wheels racetrack cake was made from 2 9″ round cakes. Each cake was three layers and made to look like a checker board when cut. This was done with a Wilton Checkerboard cake kit. I used 2 Betty Crocker cake mixes – one white and one chocolate. I then cut a semi circle … Read more
Well now it seems to be a regular job making cakes for nieces and nephews and Nathan’s was no different, except it seems to be getting more complicated each time they ask. A racetrack cake this time!. I cooked two large round cakes and cut one edge off each. Joined them together with some jam … Read more