This was a custom cake for Disney Cars Lightning McQueen with matching mini cupcakes below! The cake itself is yellow cake with vanilla rainbow sprinkle buttercream filling and covered in fondant. Everything is edible from the lightning bolt down to the tires! We used edible food coloring spray to give the lightning bolts and the 95 a cool color fade! Edible food spray is my new favorite thing, cheaper than an airbrush machine and so easy to use, love them!!
I’m so glad they loved it! Even the adults thought it was a toy and not a cake lol! You can’t ask for anything better! 
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Here is a peek in to the making of a sculpted cake . This is the icing coat before the fondant.
Question : Is your car frozen prior to icing it? I find when I ice before applying fondant, it crumbles.
Nope, i do let it set up in the fridge for a good couple hours, and usually overnight. I find it sometimes helps to use a crusting buttercream, and do a light crumb coat to help fix all the crumbling. But you can certainly freeze it before icing, that would also work.
Hi! I was wondering how you constructed the cake that is seen in this picture! Thank you!!
I started by carving the basic shape. Then i take cake scraps and buttercream and smush them together to make a sort of play dough type thing. And use that to shape the rest before doing a buttercream crumb coat. hope that helps!