This Race Track Birthday Cake was only my 2nd attempt at cake decorating so if I can do it anyone can!
The cakes are two 8in rounds. I used one chocolate buttermilk sheet cake recipe (originally for a 9×13). One box mix would work too. I cut a little off the ends of both and put them together.
White Frosting is a Marshmallow frosting (7-minute frosting). It was not the easiest to spread BUT I wanted this cake to taste great. I did a light coat (to seal all the crumbs), let it set then finished frosting.
I made a 3 template out of cardstock using the pans as guides. I placed the template on the cake and piped around it with the black frosting. I then took the three off and filled it in with Oreo cookie crumbs (1/4 a pack of cookies in the food processor).
The red and yellow piping is a basic powdered sugar frosting for easy coloring and piping.
The black piping is a chocolate powdered sugar frosting, I did this so it would taste good, even with all that food coloring (I did use the Wilton gel food coloring).
I love how you incorporated the #3 into the design – so creative. I’m going to keep this in mind when it’s time for my son’s third birthday!
I’ve bookmarked your cake so if my son is still interested in matchbox cars like he is now (read obsessed, haha!) I will make this cake just like you did. Good job. Thanks for the great tips!!
This is so well done! I love that you found alternatives to using lots of food coloring. Thanks for sharing this one! My son is turning three next week and he will love this. :)