Lightning McQueen Cake, Final "cut" :)

Another side view of the lightning bolt...

Adding 95 to the sides

Adding the Rust-Eze spoiler on the back, and the start of the Rust-Eze logo on the hood...

Pulling it ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL together...

Ta-Da!


This was a fun cake to make. I'm really proud that I was able to accomplish this in about 6 hours of total work. The detail work is really what makes the cake- in my opinion. The best thing about it was that while I was working on it this afternoon, #1 knew exactly who it was. "That's lighting aqueen mama!" sigh... I love him... and I can't wait for us to cut into it. I'm drinking a celebretory Dogfish Head 90 minute and mentally patting myself on the back. Not gonna lie, it feels really good to do this. And to see #1 light up after seeing it finished. way way cool.

Lightning McQueen take FOUR

I'm going to have to do this on a couple of posts.. and get Flickr set up so I don't run into this problem again. But- here are the next 5 steps... It's all just detail work from here on out.

lights, lightning bolts, windows and red accents on tires.

rear view....

Eyes...

Lightning Bolts on sides and 95 on top... more discussion on this below


ok, I should have started to paint the details at this point. The color gradation on the number 95 and on the lightning bolts on the sides. Also on the eyes too, but I had some blue fondant to use so I went that route. I didn't have a few tools necessary to make that happen- a fine paint brush and vodka... and all the powder color for the lightning bolts. So I ended up just mixing yellow, orange and red fondant and rolling it out. It did the job, but didn't look amazing.

Lightning McQueen take THREE and more cinn roll's

The never ending cake! Actually, Wubbzy was the never ending cake, this one has been a pleasant experience so far!
I have some errands to run this a.m. in preparation for #1's bday so I only got to do a tiny bit this a.m...
And also make some Cinnamon Rolls! I made GIANT Cinnabon style ones and they were good. If i do say so myself ;)


cream cheese frosting.. so so good!



Down to business. First, I used a cooke cutter and punched out the wheel wells...
Side note- I tasted the red fondant for the first time at this point. And, it was good! seriously, it tasted really good.



Then, I used some of the scrap cake I had left over from the large 9x13 cake and punched out the tires....



And then apparently I forgot to take pictures of what I did next- but I rolled out black fondant and covered the tires and placed them in the wheel wells. Next I rolled out white fondant for the windshield/eyes and his smile...



And now it's time to ski-daddle.... so back in the freezer he goes and off to errands I go! more soon...