Customer Reviews

Wilton Cars Cake Pan

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The pan worked out well. It requires one box cake mix. My issues with the pan are first, it was extremely difficult to grease and flour the pan. Second, after it bakes it was hard to see where some of the details where, such as the lightning bolt above the tire, the headlights, the lightning bolt with the number 95, and the number 95 itself. Third, for some reason they placed the purchase logo right over the most complicated area of the design. There is a smaller photo inside so you can still see, but it was a bit frustrating. The cake turned out great none the less. I realized after purchasing this pan there would be no place to write Happy Birthday for my son. I also thought the pan looked small, so I baked a larger square cake base to set this one on. It created a neat 3-D effect, and I was able to write Happy Birthday and create a neat Radiator Springs backdrop. Happy Baking!

Fun to decorate with the little ones but takes a lot of colors and each color is deep so it takes great deal of colorant. Be prepared for stained mouths and clothes when eating the cake.

My first thought upon seeing this pan was it was very small. However, my
opinion changed when I baked my first cake in it. It did hold an entire
boxed cake mix & the cake turned out excellent! I expect to make many more "Cars" cakes for my nephew!

I am no cake decorator, but this cake turned out really cool and I got lots of compliments. It did seem to take forever to get all the detail so if you haven't decorated cakes much give yourself some time.

Perfect for my son's CARS birthday party. I bought the CARS icing, too- the colors are more vibrant than the regular Wilton colors.

hey so the cake tin is awesome and it came with instructions on how to decorate :)
I highly recommend it to anyone it is great for kids birthday!

I've been making my little cousins birthday cakes with these Wilton shaped pans since they were born (and even before that if we want to count baby shower cakes). I have never had any problems following the pattern and my cakes were always greeted with amazement (even when I insist that I just follow an outline). My cousin's 4th birthday rolled around and she requested a "Cars" cake so I ordered the pan. I used a basic chocolate cake mix and while the cake slipped easily out of the pan the detailing on the pan was barely visible on the cake itself. Pressed for time I decided I didn't have time to basically freehand the design and had to scrap my plans and get a grocery store "Cars" cake. This pan ruined my streak of making all their cakes! =[

The pan seemed smaller than I expected, but it held a standard cake recipe. I had no issues with baking it, and it came out of the pan PERFECT! I finally bought the Wilton Cake Release and will never go back. Instructions were deatiled and easy to follow. Overall...Loved it!

I used this cake pan twice this week, with two different tried and true recipes, and I was disappointed with the results of both. First, I made an apple cake that I normally cook in a 13x9 inch pan. This Cars pan is only 13" long by 4" tall in the front (hood) and 6" tall in the middle and the back, so I expected I might have to alter the bake time a little. Well, even with watching the time, the best I could do was have the cake a little overdone around the edges and slightly underdone in the middle. After I released the cake from the pan, I could see NO definition on the cake... it just looked like a big blob. So if you want to try this pan, I'd recommend using a very smooth cake mix/recipe (no apple, banana, zuchini, or other produce chunks in it).

Secondly, I made a favorite cake recipe that I usuallly use in a 10" bundt pan. Half way through the cooking, my kitchen was overwhelmed with the smell of burning. It turns out that the cake mix had run over the side of the pan. Learn from my mistake... should you decide to use this pan, it might be a good idea to place a cookie sheet under it. When it was ready to come out, it's overall baking was uneven, I had a hard time removing it from the cake pan, and the definition was very faint.

I ended up frosting the entire cake with chocolate frosting, and I outlined the edges with red M&Ms. I used different colored groups of M&Ms to decorate where I thought the tires, lightning bolt, headlights, etc. should go. So it did turn out cute after all (and the kids LOVED having M&Ms on a cake), but I had to endure too much frustration along the way to allow me to recommend this pan.

In summary, I think this is a poor quality pan in an odd, hard to work with size. It causes uneven baking and the final result shows little of Lightning McQueens features. The pan itself is very thin aluminum... the kind that could be easily dented if you tried banging a knife on it to help release the cake. From now on, I'll stick with Nordic Ware's high quality, heavy cast aluminum, well-defined and designed pans.

I received this item in just a couple days. It was in mint condition with all instruction that were easy to follow. Item was exactly as described