Larry's 41st Birthday: Truck

Airplane Cake

Boat Cake

Cars take 2

I've done this one before, but Lightning McQueen is always a winner with the 2-year olds.

(Looks good even if I did forget the spoiler.)

Semi Truck

Used two loaf pans to bake the cake in. Cut one of them in half and shaped it a little to look like the actually truck. Mini doughnut halves were used as tires. Toothpicks were used to hold the top tires on, crossing each other as they were stuck through. The speed limit sign, or age limit, was made from the other half of the loaf.

Army Tank Cake

We have been understaffed at work and my fellow "front desk" ladies wanted to thank the techs for stepping in and helping. Linda came up with the idea of making a tank cake that said T'anks A Lot. I thought it was an awesome idea.

Viking Dragon Ship

For my brother's birthday, I made him a Viking ship. I just used the large loaf pan for the main body or the cake and carved it out to look like a boat. The bow and stern I formed with chocolate modeling clay. I painted sucker sticks with melted chocolate and attached some modeling clay to the end for the oars. The shields are made from the discs candy molds. The sail is candy clay. (I did have the sail shaped bowing out when I brought it to my brothers house but it came in contact with moisture and lost it's shape, so you see it as it was just laying flat. So frustrating. I draped the sail over a roll of paper towels to harden. It gave it the perfect shape.) Last, used blue and white buttercream frosting to surround the cake to look like water.

We moved the sail aside so it wouldn't melt with all the candles. We shouldn't a have taken so long to sing to him :)

Lightning McQueen

"Cars" Lightning McQueen . Larger cake made with Wilton 3D Cruiser pan. Chocolate donuts added for the wheels and frosting used to build up the spoiler.

Smaller cake is where the alternative to traditional cake comes in. Because the only grain my son could eat was corn, I baked a sweet corn bread and dairy-free frosting to built a car shape (I imagine this would work with any bread type). Was a bit crumbly, but no two year old with his own car cake is going to complain! : )

Firetruck

Truck

Moving Van

Knight Rider