I’m Just Bragging…

Karen at Keeping The Castle posted her Cars Movie Cake today, so I was inspired to post my cake too.

This month we celebrated Little Dude’s 4th birthday. OMG – how did he get that old already?? {sobbing}. Anyway, he thinks the big deal about birthday parties is the cake. I’ve made his birthday cakes myself – and I must say they are impressive! I’ve made the Baby Einstein Lion, Blue and Thomas. (I’d show you them, however they are on back-up disks and it will take me way longer to find them than to write this blog post. Maybe I’ll get back to them…) I say I make them myself, but really they are semi-homemade – I give credits below. Regardless,  he loves them and the cake is the highlight of his day.

This year the party theme was Disney’s Cars. He wanted a Lightening McQueen car.

I baked the cakes the night before as well as prepared the frosting so I would have time to get the color right.

I stacked the cakes, using some frosting for filling,  and then carved the top one to be the right shape. I frosted it completely with the red icing, and then I decorated it. I don’t use anything fancy like a professional piping bag. I use sandwich bags with a corner snipped. Oh, and I used mini-chocolate donuts for the wheels.

Betty Crocker helped me make the cakes (one devils food, one vanilla).

The frosting was made using the classic Domino Confectioners Sugar Buttercream Frosting recipe. I made two batches: one for the red coloring and one for the rest (including the filling).

It was a little time consuming because each color of frosting had to “set” before I could move on to the next. But otherwise it was easy