at our church we are going to be having a car show (motorcycles/trucks also) to raise money. the women are selling plates, brownies, etc... i am new to the church and when we had the meeting, they asked if someone could do some cakes. i immediatly raised my hand and volunteered. as i sat there it hit me, they probly want a pound cake or something they can cut into sections. i was more wanting to MAKE a cake to decorate. so i am going to make a pound cake for it. but i also would like to make a decorated cake. i figured since it was a car show, then i could somehow do a car cake. i looked on here for ideas, and found many great cars cakes. the only thing- most of them were sculpted. so that kinda scared me away.
can anyone help me come up with an idea i could make for the car show? it doesnt have to be a car, but i thought that would be cute.
i do have the 3d car pan. but all i seen i might could do with that was make a herby car...
i kinda wanted something that was not so kiddish
thanks for any ideas!
~jennifer
I have made a 3d car cake with and without the Wilton car pan. It was MUCH easier using the pan. Even if you want to change it (like cutting off the roof to make a convertable, etc.) it gives you the basic shape to work with.
There are lots of great ideas in the gallery as well!
jjbrink, don't be afraid of sculpting!!! What's the worst that could happen? Cake Balls!!!! (Which you could make to look like little tires with very little effort!)
Give it a shot. Remember, most of those ladies at the church wouldn't even begin to attempt making a car out of a cake, and you will probably impress them all with whatever you bring!
i am going to give it a shot!! i need to go read up on the smoothing of the bc icing using the new crisco. the past two cakes i have made really fustrated me b/c the icing would not smooth out 
You can do it. 
Here's a great tutorial:
http://tinyurl.com/3c65oo
(From boonenati.)
HTH
If you didn't want to go sculpted (you should try it for practice and it's a lot of fun!)...how about making a really colorfully stacked cake with a '50s theme to it? You could pipe or make records, jukeboxes, poodles skirts, milkshakes, cars...it could be really fun!
-erin
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