Race Car Cake....Zoom!

If you have a need for a race car cake..then you are in luck! I love this cake because it doesn't take much time and you can decorate it to fit your style. I like to use pound cake for this type of cake because you will be carving the cake and you don't want it to fall apart easily. Keith, one of the twins, wanted an orange race car cake for his 3rd birthday so here is how to make one....

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  First I baked two loaf pan pound cakes...I always bake one extra for the "just in case" happens.

Just in case one falls on the floor

Just in case I mess up...yes...that's how I learn:)

Just in case Keith wakes up in the middle of the night and eats the cake...It would not be the first time.

Loaf pan cake is great for a race car because it already has the round top....so easy! Let the cake cool for a couple of hours..pop it out of the pan, wrap in plastic wrap and then foil. Place in freezer over night or until you are ready to work on the cake.  



   

It's time to carve the race car!

Grab a knife, the sharper the better, and whack away:) Now you want the cake frozen when cutting it into shape....it will be hard to cut and that is good...take it slow and cut a little at a time until you get use to the knife. 

Here is an easy way to carve a loaf car.....the loaf pan is 9".....I did 4" top, 3" hood/front, 2" trunk/back. Measure the loaf and mark these points off....figure you want to go 1/4 into the cake...easy and it's fun...remember you have the other cake in the freezer so you are GOLDEN!!

I used Buttercream icing to crumb coat the car in the color I wanted it to be. This just means to lightly add icing to the cake so when it thaws out it will be in the shape and won't fall apart on you.  

After the crumb coat has dried...then add a second layer of icing to the cake.

I used: Oreos for the wheels

           Candy bar for the spoiler.

           Icing for the stripes and to outline the windows and to add the 3.

           Gray icing for the windows.

           Yellow M &M's for the headlights and Red ones for the tail lights.  

          

This cake was easy and super fun!! Andrew had a fire truck cake which will be another blog and I would have rather made 12 race cars to that one fire truck. I think that a car in pink or green with flowers would be really cute for a girl...or crumble Oreo's and make a street for a couple of cars to look like they are racing....the ideas are endless.