Disney Cars 2 Cake

I was asked to make a birthday cake for a 2 year old who's a big fan of Disney Cars 2.

I thought I'll include a couple shots of making the frosting.  I got to pick whatever frosting I wanted so I of course went to my favorite cream cheese frosting, yum.  The bowl on the left is my cream cheese mixture and the one on the right holds my heavy cream that I just whipped.

I then put the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture and folded it in.

On a random note, these were my counter top companions while I was making this cake.  Aren't they so pretty? Sunflowers are so simple but they really brighten up a room.  I'm usually not a flowers kinda gal...I appreciate them but when I look at them, I think, oh they're pretty but also probably expensive and they're going to die lol.  But these were 3 for $2 at a local farmers market and at that price, I couldn't resist.

So back to the cake: covered the cake with black fondant after covering it with frosting.  When you do cover a cake in fondant, make sure you don't have long fingernails as it is really easy to make marks on it (my nails are so short and stubby right now, ha). 

After covering, the two tools I use are my fondant smoother and pastry wheel to smooth the cake and cut the bottom.

I then cut out white squares and alternated them on the cake to give it more of that race track feel.

 

Onto the logo: I printed out a copy of the Cars logo and used that to help guide my tools on the gray fondant (instead of 'Cars', I decided I'll put the birthday boy's name on it instead).

Moved onto the red part of the logo.

I painted the gray fondant with silver luster dust to give it more of a metallic feel.

I then put the finished logo, a couple other decorations that I made (flags and stars) and the Lightning McQueen topper on the cake and it was ready to be picked up for the birthday party.