Check this out! - Lightning McQueen again
Posted on August 24, 2009
Filed Under Birthday cakes
Look at this cake! Does it look familiar?
But… the one I made says Happy Birthday Jordan and this one says Happy Birthday Christian.
And I did NOT make 2 Lightning McQueen cakes.
It totally made my day over the weekend when I got an email from Theresa with pictures attached. This is the very reason that I like to post birthday cakes from start to finish, including the pictures where it looks hopeless of ever turning into something recognizable: so you all can see there are no tricks and you can see how to do it yourself! I don’t personally know Theresa, and it was just so refreshing to hear a confident ’I could do that.” And it turned out GREAT!!!
Here are a few things about Theresa:
— She is a mom of 3.
— She has never made a birthday cake (before last week).
— She has an 8-wk-old baby.
— She saw the Lightning McQueen cake post and instead of thinking “I’ve never made a cake. I couldn’t do this.”, she thought, “My little guy has a birthday soon. I’m gonna try this.”
Did I mention she has an 8-wk-old?! She didn’t say, but I’ll just bet that some of this was done one-handed while holding a baby! ;) And if not that, then imagine all the interruptions!
And another thing I wanted to stress is that this was Theresa’s first cake ever! Talk about a crash course in fondant and cake decorating! In her email, Theresa said, “Trust me, while I was sculpting the cake, I said to myself (and my husband) …”I can’t do this!” I just had to laugh when I read that because I know the feeling! I don’t think there’s been a cake yet that I haven’t thought, “What did I get myself into here?!”
I think we should give Theresa a round of applause for her awesome cake! What do you say?…
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Editted Sept 28 to add another cake! Yvonne made this cake.
You did an awesome job, Yvonne! Turned out great!
Look how she personalized it! I think Adam is turning 3, what do you think? 
Anybody else make a Lightning McQueen cake from the step-by-step instructions? Email me a picture! I’ll add it here! 
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Wow, first decorated cake - i’m impressed! And with a 8 week old, make that double impressed! Way to go Theresa!
Wow! I’m impressed!! Super job Theresa!!!
way to go!!! Looks great!!!
Three cheers for Teresa!!!!and for Kay too!!!
Yay!
It looks great! 
APPLAUDING!!!! I love this blog!!1
Way to go, Theresa!! Great job!
WOW, it’s just awesome for your first cake, Teresa! I’ve never used fondant before, but use drop stars of frostening. I love the fondant look. I thought Kay’s cake was awesome too.
1st cake ever?! Totally amazing Teresa! I hope Christian enjoyed it as much as Jordan did. And great teacher, Kay!
Wow. First cake ever and it’s a nice one. I feel so incapable now. Loved the movie Cars BTW. Our family has seen it a bunch of time. Think I’m going to attempt a movie-based cake.