Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake with Wilton Cake Pan

I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd Birthday Party on Saturday. I made 2 cakes, one for the car and one for the base. It took from start to finish 3.5 hrs. I mixed the colors the night before. Making the red color was a bit tricky, I almost used all the red color that came with the cars color set. It got redder overnight but turned out great.

I didn’t know what to do with the base so I decided to mix some colors to make a dark sand color close to the wheelwell color. It really helps to make the base cake so that you have somewhere to write Happy Birthday on.

I totally recommend making this cake. Please note that the icing instructions lets you make so much more than you really need, so you won’t run out of icing. For the eyes and windows, I was left with so much and just needed to put the color into the tip #3 and no piping bag to push out his eyes.

The outlining was tricky as the bolt, headlights, eyebrows, number 95 is not at all clear, so I used the picture of Lightning McQueen and the cake pan to judge where it was supposed to be.