Cars cake

A couple years back, I got to make this tree trunk-style jungle animal cake for a baby boy's 1st birthday. I remember that cake particularly cuz one of the animals was the birthday boy's fave stuffed toy Lemur, and he was an usual grey/white/lime green colour! Well, two years blew by and now this guy is turning three and he's into Cars. 

Cars-themed cake, ready for toy toppers

For his birthday celebration with family, I made small devil's food cake, filled with whipped dark chocolate ganache and finished with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream dyed red. 

fondant, hand-cut Cars logo

The cake was decorated with the Cars logo cut out of fondant, with a no. 3 on it, yellow fondant balls to border the cake, the name, and some yellow pop-out stars to go on top. The birthday boy's mummy will be placing some toys on top of the cake at the party. Hopefully I'll be able to get a pic of the cake with the toppers on it and I'll update this post! Happy 3rd Birthday, Kai En (yep, they quit calling him Nathanael!)

pop-out stars to go on top with some Cars toys