The Making of a Cars Cake (2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a tutorial on how I made the Cars Cake above. This is the second Cars Cake I am making. The first is the Lightning McQueen Cars Cake below (Post here). Aside from the Tow Mater topper, this is a relatively easy cake to make. I would advice that you refer to my earlier tutorial on how I made the Lightning McQueen Cars Cake (Tutorial here) as I would be repeating most of the same steps here and might not go deeply into some of the design steps executed in that tutorial. To get access to the recipes used for this cake, click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE PROCESS:

(1) First, make the Tow Mater Topper. A Pictorial on how I made this topper can be found here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2) Next, make the tarmac road topper on which the topper was placed. I made this topper by rolling and cutting out a black rectangular piece of fondant measuring 12 x 5 inches. Next, I tied a semicylinder form to a 9 inch square cake pan. Next, I placed the fondant on the cake pan so the front laid over the semicylinder form. I left the mold this way to dry for about a couple of days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(3) Next, make the fondant cactus plants used on the cake. These were made free hand out of green fondant. Spaghetti was used to join the several pieces together. The ridges were made using a fondant wheel. The use of spaghetti as opposed to floral wire is good when making small fondant molds. This is to protect kids against hazards. As an aside, be sure to always notify your clients about portions of the cake or design which contain floral wires and other things which might be harmful to kids.

(4) Next, make the flags. The flags were made using white fondant wrapped around the top of lolly pop sticks. Small black fondant squares were stuck on the flags.

(5) Finally, make other elements of the cake like the name tag and traffic lights.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(6) Cover a cake board with grey fondant and stick the frosted cake on it. Cover the top of the cake with green fondant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(7) Wrap the sides of the cake with white fondant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(8) Next, stick black squares on the cake to make black and white check pattern. To do this, roll out black fondant and leave it to air dry for about 30 minutes. Cut out the squares using a ruler and a sharp blade. Brush the cake with water or vodka and stick the squares to the cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(9) Next, place dowels in the cake. These dowels would support the weight of the heavy fondant topper. Place the dried tarmac road on top of the dowels and make markings on the road using white fondant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(10) Next, make green patches on the cake board using green fondant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(11) With the cake structure completed, its time to add other elements of the cake to it. These include the Tow Mater topper, name plate, flags, cactus plants and rocks. The rocks were made by rolling marbled grey fondant into spherical shapes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s all there is to it. Happy Caking!