Help With Making A Car Cake For My Son's Birthday
Decorating By ctorosi Updated 3 Sep 2007 , 10:49pm by ctorosi
All,
I'm new at baking (complicated things), assembling, decorating cakes - well pretty much everthing related to cakes. I'm feeling a little ambishes and I want to make a Lightening McQueen race car cake. Any thoughts and words of encourage are greatly appreciated!!!
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One of the easiest ways to do any kind of character cake is by making a 'frozen buttercream transfer', aka FBCT or FBT around here. You can find the directions in the article section. There are several Lightening McQueen cakes done this way in the galleries. You could also go the character pan route. I think Wilton has a Cars one or you can just use the nascar pan w/LM's colors. Good luck...YOU CAN DO IT!
If you're looking to do a 3D version of Lightening McQueen, the easiest way to go is to use the Wilton Cruiser pan and decorate it to look like McQueen. I've done 2 of these (in my photos). I decorated with fondant, but you can do buttercream too. It really not that hard.
My soon to be 3yr old DD also wants a cars cake. Check out the gallery section, there are a lot of cakes for inspiration. I am taking the easy route on this one, doing a road scene and am using the die cast cars to decorate the cake. That way not only will she get to eat her cake, but play with it too!
Since your new I would go with the 3-d pan route. Their very easy to do. I used the nascar pan for my Jeff Gordon car. Then just roll out the fondant and drape it over. You can either paint on the eyes and stuff or use fondant cut outs and attach with a little bit of water.
When I made my cars cake (in my pics) I made two loaf cakes, one for the main body (carved to shape front & back) and the other cut up to make top & any extra pieces to shape.
You could bake 4 loaf cakes & use two to practice. I recently switched to all scratch cakes but my cars cake was a boxed pound cake (used buttermilk) it always carved well & people enjoyed it.
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