Cars Cake

I've finally decided to do something about this blog! Am going to try and put up some of my old cake projects here, which sadly, won't amount to much... sigh. Only managing 4-5 cakes a year - this pathetic tally is due to James' starting primary school, and the corresponding ratchet up in after school activities... though both kids being in different school sessions has also contributed. Just can't find good windows of time to work on cakes!

So here is a cake I made for Cameron in 2009... Lightning McQueen from Disney's Cars movie. This is version 1.0 - I later did another Lightning McQueen for my nevvie. Version 2.0 was a tad tidier *_*



I used an 11" square cake and made lots of drawings and measurements - probably unneccessary! Some of these mad scribblings:







The cake itself was the old fashioned sour cream chocolate fudge cake from Baking Illustrated - my former "go to" cake for children's parties. I always get favourable reviews on taste although it's actually not ideal for decorating with - it has a pretty delicate texture and crumbles quite easily. So now I use it for simple layered cakes, and have another recipe for shaped cakes like this one.

The car decals, eyes etc were cut out from an icing sheet which I had printed at Bake it Yourself.



More pics : )



A fun cake to make!