My dear friend has asked me to make a small lightning mcqueen smash cake for her son's 3rd birthday. I looked online but could not find too much on how to carve one...Any tips??

Thanks.

If you figure out how to carve a car cake that small, then you may just find yourself in the cake hall of fame!

http://sugaredblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-make-3d-car-cake.html

http://popocreation.blogspot.com/2008/07/mcqueen-cake.html

Here are two I found doing a google search.

Yeah, it won't be easy to do one so small. Maybe just a 2-dimensional one? That would be much easier and still get the same design concept.

Hi, here is another great tutorial,

http://www.how2cakes.com/3dcar.html

HTH.

If you want a 3D cake, then just use a Wilton car cake pan and carve. It's very simple...

I recently did Lightening using the Wilton cruiser pan. You can see a photo in this post:

http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopicp-6666566-.html#6666566

HTH
Rae

Here's how I did it:
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-625498-lightning.html+mcqueen

Man! I really had no idea what I was doing with ganache when I tried that cake!!!

Thanks, I baked a cake in an oval pan and started carving last night...looks like it's going to work out ok...Thank you for all your tips...I'll post a pic when he is done!