After reviewing this site, I decided to make a Race Car Track Birthday Cake for my 6 yr old’s birthday. I prepared a Devil’s Food cake mix and a Classic White cake mix. I then placed spoons full of cake mix in a 10″ pan, alternating between the mixes to create a somewhat checkerboard style. … 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
This cake was a surprise for my sons Zack 5th Birthday. Super easy to make! I used this site for NASCAR birthday cakes and this is what I made. You will need two boxes of cake mix. I used a 9″x13″ rectangle pan and (an approx) 9″ round pan. Bake as directed on box. After … Read more
I made this cake for my sons 7th birthday. He was into Hot wheels at the time and I was really having a hard time deciding what cake to make. So, I made three 9×13 cakes, placed them next to each other on a cake board, and hoped for the best. The Lord blessed my … 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 son wanted a Disney Cars themed cake for his 3rd birthday so I created this Disney Cars Race Track Birthday Cake using bits and pieces of ideas from several photos I had seen online. I wanted it to look cool but it still had to be do-able within my realm of limited cake decorating … Read more
This Homemade Racing Car Track Birthday Cake is my first attempt to make a cake with fondant – I had so much fun! This cake was inspired by one I saw on Flickr – my son looked at all of the sites with me and helped to choose the design (he didn’t see the final … Read more
After checking out different Race Track Birthday Cakes on-line we decided the easiest way to get an oval shape was to use a large aluminum roasting pan. Although this requires a lot more cake batter, we used two batches, about 6 cups of flour.
Alexander turned 4 years old, he loves cars. Definitely a car theme. How about Speed Racer’s theme? I made a race car track birthday cake out of two 9″ square pans, and two 9″ circle pans, cut in halves for each side of the car track. I made two tiers. End result an oval shaped … Read more
My son was very into Cars the movie around his 3rd birthday so I ran with that theme and created this Homemade Race Car Track Cake. I started off with 2 different boxes of cake mix. I made one rectangular sheet cake with one box and 2- 9″ round cake from the other box, but … 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
Thanks to Shannon Ls cake for the original inspiration which I copied from Nascar birthday cakes! I loved the idea for green grass and M&M’s around the track. We bought two new CARS to race around the two layer 8″ cake. I used chocolate filled Oreo’s crushed in the blender for the track. For grass … Read more