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Not the McQueen I know....

We don't have children so when a friend (or better yet, the child of a friend) asks if I will make a birthday cake the answer is always YES!  In this case, this little guy had been telling me for months what sort of cake he wanted.....chocolate.  I finally got him to tell me what he wanted to outside of the cake to look like, "&*%%^^ " McQueen was his response, he was after all just turning three so it is understandable he is difficult to understand.    I walked away thinking "how on Earth am I going to make a cake to honor "The King of Cool".  I asked my husband if he knew any McQueen characters and his response was yea, Steve McQueen.  Hmmm....enter the world wide webs.  I quickly figured out I needed to make a cake honoring Lightning McQueen.  So much easier.  I would say it was a hit before it was even cut :) 

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