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My Cars Lightning McQueen Cake

August 15, 2011 by Nicole 7 Comments

Let me just start by stating the obvious: I am not a professional cake decorator. But I have a little boy whose only request for his birthday was a Lightning McQueen birthday cake. The pressure was on – but I’m here to tell you that with a little (ok, a LOT) of help from Wilton’s Lightning McQueen shaped cake pan, I was able to pull off a pretty good Lightning McQueen cake.

I wanted to share this with you because I know lots of little CARS fans may be asking for a Lightning McQueen cake – and wanted to let you know that YOU CAN MAKE ONE, it really isn’t that hard, I promise.

Here’s the BEFORE photo:

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And AFTER:

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I probably could have done a neater job if I hadn’t been in such a time crunch to finish the cake. I didn’t realize that decorating a cake with little bitty star-shaped icing tips takes time. I had to squeeze out about 1.3 million of them on the cake.

Here are the main tools you need to make this cake:

  • Lightning McQueen Cake Pan (from Wilton)
  • CARS icing color set (from Wilton)
  • Decorating Tip #3, #16, and #21 (from Wilton)

All the step by step instructions on how to make and color the icing and decorate the cake are included on the sheet that comes with the cake pan. It was super easy to follow the instructions. The most time consuming part was having to make and color the icing – then every time you changed colors and needed the tip, you had to wash the tip out. I almost wished I had several tips in the same size so I didn’t have to wash them over and over. (I know, I’m lazy like that.)

Bottom Line: This was such a cute, easy and fun way to make a Cars Lightning McQueen birthday cake. Don’t let lack of skills scare you away from making this cake. If I can do it, anyone can do it. It’s not perfect, but my birthday boy loved it and that made every one of those 1.3 million icing stars I squeezed out totally worth it!

Filed Under: Cooking, Disney Tagged With: Cars Birthday, Cars Cake, Disney Cars Cake, Lightning McQueen Cake, Wilton Lightning McQueen Cake Pan

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  1. Geralyn says

    August 16, 2011 at 4:20 am

    Well done! Very cute cake.

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      August 16, 2011 at 8:05 am

      Thanks, Geralyn. It was FAR from perfect, but the kids didn’t notice all the places I messed up.

      Reply
  2. Sadie says

    August 17, 2011 at 4:03 am

    Wow! Great job!

    Reply
  3. Joy says

    February 16, 2012 at 7:09 am

    Your cake pops look amazing .. just wondering if you have tried to make a cake pop of Lightning McQueen or Tow Mater … I am going to attempt to make them for our son’s 4th birthday party this summer … and I have not found too many people that have attempted or at least posted pictures on-line … any help with how to shape & decorate would be sooooooo appreciated.

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      February 16, 2012 at 7:55 am

      I’ll have to see if I can find anything about Cars cake pops. I think I have seen them before but I’ve never attempted making them myself. Good luck with yours – I hope you find what you are looking for and if I find something, I’ll let you know.

      Reply
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