Coolest Lightning McQueen Cake

I made this Lightning McQueen cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used the Wilton 3D car cake tin.

I sliced the roof on an angle and used the cutoff for the spoiler. I decorated using royal icing. Started making the accessories (tires, lightning bolts, eye, etc). Then rolled out a rectangular piece of red royal icing for the body. Made it large enough to cover the whole car and moulded it to look like Lightning McQueen. Added all the accessories.

The checkered board made of buttercream, spread on cake board white, cut out squares and scraped off each second square. Placed this in bowl and mixed with black dye. Covered the blanks with black buttercream.

The cake took about 2 hours to bake and approx. 5 hours to decorate.

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