Lightning McQueen Cake Using Wilton Cake Pan

After looking through this website I got inspired to make this Lightning McQueen cake! I got the Wilton pan from Michael’s and the corresponding food colorings. It was surprisingly easy. I made a funfetti cake (because I wanted to be able to see the lines from the pan to decorate). I think using a chocolate cake it would be harder to notice all the lines that you need to fill in.I still had some difficulty.

The hardest part about this cake was mixing all the frosting colors! I had to make two batches of the Wilton buttercream icing. I thought I would take a “shortcut” and use the Wilton “fondant in the squirt tube” for the eyes, didn’t work! It was far too runny.

I used star tip 16 for the entire cake it’s really a small cake, so there is not too much to pipe out actually. I wish I would have taken more time on it.

Overall, I will make this cake again. I already bought the pan and my son loves “Lightning”…the look on his face when he saw it, even though it wasn’t perfect, was priceless!