Car Cake

Creating a car cake sparks a wildfire of ideas form the racetrack cakes to impressive 3D cakes. You can use our recipe to make a basic cake form and then use our free cake decorating ideas or your own for a unique cake.

Race Track Cake

Two round cakes arranged side by side form a figure eight racetrack and are ready for your distinctive landscaping design. Top the cake with plastic cars age appropriate for your guests, and the party guests can have a piece of cake with their own race car on top.

Cupcakes are always fun and going with the little car theme; you can decorate the cupcakes with a road and place the small cars on each cupcake. Decorate cupcakes with traffic lights, stop signs, racing flags, and messages and arrange them around the racetrack cake. Of course, the cupcakes served by themselves with free hand drawings of cars on top are always an option.

Read directions on creating a race track cake with two round cakes.

Use a Specialty Cake Pan

Specialty pans are another gateway to all kinds of ideas for a car cake. The Wilton Race Car Pan, for example, has a basic car outline on background. A racecar on the background of a checkered flag is the advertised idea but a taxicab for a going away party is another idea. The design would allow you to create any car of your choice and decorate the background to correspond to your car.

You can use to the Wilton 3-D Cruiser Pan to create the car cake of your choice, if you are more comfortable using a preform pan. You can make a pink Sweet Sixteen VW Beetle for the teenager wishing for a car on her birthday, or a police cruiser for the graduate who wants to get into law enforcement. Any car you can create with our patterns and ideas, you can create with this pan.

Make a 3D Car Cake

Multiple options are available to make 3D cakes from our free downloads to manufactured 3D cake pans or even sculpting a car from a 13 x 9 cake.
You can make a 3 D car cake by using our cake-decorating instructions.

Make a 3D Cake shaped like a car by using these cake decorating instructions. Bake a cake in a 13x9 pan. Allow to cool overnight. On a sheet of paper cut out a car shape, use this as your pattern. You will cut out 2 car shapes out of the 13x9 pan so make sure your pattern will fit. Add a dab of frosting to your cake plate to secure the cake. Prop up your two car shapes up and crumb coat. Allow to sit several hours.

car cake prep crumb coat

This picture will give you an idea of how to cut your pattern out.
Decorate your cake as you'd like. If you need to you can use a picture or a toy car and copy the design. Add whatever details you'd like and add wheels.

car cake decorating

We have a car decorating pattern you can use for making a fun image on your cake or you can use a picture or a toy car and copy the design. Add whatever details you'd like and add wheels.

Car Party Car Cake

A car party can be fun for partygoers of all ages. Disney’s Lightening McQueen is a favorite children’s party theme and if you don’t feel like doing all the decorating by hand, you can buy Disney’s new Cars-2 cake topper. An abundance of items is available in the Cars-2 theme such as invitations, tablecloths, paper plates, cups and napkins and even centerpieces for the table.

You can build a Dukes of Hazard car for the 1970’s party, a hearse for a Halloween costume party, and even a bat mobile for the Batman fan. The possibilities are almost limitless for creating a car cake. Celebrating the new driver license or the car lovers birthday, the car themes all bring fun to the party and shows how much the baker cares that they created a personalized cake for the guest of honor.

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