Everything you need to throw a fabulous Hot Wheels birthday party including some Hot Wheels cupcakes that will be the hit of the party!
My boys have birthdays fairly close together, like almost on top of each other. It makes for a very busy week and not enough days in between to throw three separate parties.
This year, we decided to try holding one party for all three boys and allowing them each to invite a few friends. Because they are close in age, the boys all know each other’s friends from the playground at school and it worked out pretty well.
The friends coming to the party ranged in age from 5-9. When it came time to pick a theme, I immediately thought of a Hot Wheels birthday party.
All of my boys still enjoy playing with the classic cars, they never seem to go out of style and boys of all ages love them. Girls like them too and we had one girl coming to the party as well, yes, that sweet thing held her own in a room packed full of boys! She was a trouper!
I find cupcakes a lot easier to do for a large group party. It eliminates the time and stress of cutting and serving cake and everyone gets a ‘fun piece’. In this case, the cupcakes were extra fun because each one held a coveted Hot Wheels car as well!
Hot Wheels Birthday Party Cupcakes
You’ll need
Cupcakes in liners (I used a shiny silver)
Black icing (see my tip below)
Black sugar
Checkered flag picks
Hot Wheels Cars
Golf Tees
Glue gun
Directions
Start by prepping your cars. I didn’t want to just stick the cars into the icing because I wanted the cars to stay as clean as possible. When I couldn’t find anything suitable to hold them up at the party/baking supply store, I came up with this idea of hot gluing golf tees to the bottom of the cars.
This worked really well, it allows the cars to sit just above the icing so they don’t get dirty and the pegs easily pop right off of the bottom of the cars when you are ready to eat the cupcakes. Each child can bring their car home! The pegs will also prevent the cars from sliding off of the cupcakes.
Back to the cupcakes, frost each cupcake with black icing. A really easy way to get deep black icing is to buy a jar of chocolate icing and add a little black food colouring. It’s way faster and easier than trying to dye white icing black, which can be really frustrating.
Place the black sugar in a bowl. Turn the frosted cupcake upside down into the bowl of sugar and swirl around until the cupcake is covered evenly. This gives the icing an asphalt kind of look!
Now carefully push each car peg into the middle of the cupcake and add in a checkered flag.
I let the boys pick their cars at home and added a candle to the birthday boys cupcakes so we would know which one was for them. Hot Wheels also has skateboarders for a fun twist!
The Hot Wheels Cupcakes were a big hit with all of the boys! It was really fun to see their reaction!
You can get a lot of different fun accessories to go with your Hot Wheels themed party! Think invitations, napkins, plates, games, tablecloths, and party hats!
Hot Wheels cars are also the perfect little gift to tuck into loot bags!
Our Hot Wheels Birthday Party was a success!!! The boys had a great day with their friends and everyone went home happy!! If you are planning a Hot Wheels party, consider or fun cupcakes! I bet they’ll be a big hit with your pit crew too!
PIN FOR LATER!
You might also like these cake ideas!
These are awesome cupcakes! I love them and will keep them in mind for the next birthday around here! Thanks
Good idea! Do you use pinterest? I love to gather ideas there
I do use Pinterest… I could get lost in there for days on end!
I loved the theme and the cupcakes were super awesome, happy to hear the girl didn’t feel out of place, but hey if your into cars and what not cool!! all that matters is everyone had fun and by the pictures I’m sure they did!!
she’s such a sweet girl, I was worried but she played soccer with the boys and got excited about her car just like they did!
These look great!
Thank you!
I have two boys would are obsessed with Hot Wheels! They would go nutso for those cupcakes.
They have a fun factor for sure!
These look awesome and it is such an easy way to decorate, my grandsons would love these!
I love how easy they are!
The cupcakes turned out awesome!
ok seriously those are the coolest cupcakes!!! great job so creative 🙂
Thank you! I love the way they turned out!
That a pretty great idea with the cupcake toppers!
These are the cutest , i am gonna keep them in mind for my Grandsons birthday , he wold love them 🙂
Looks awesome Jen!
Thank you <3 Wish you were there!
The look on your boys face is priceless…..well done!
these look so amazing
I am loving these cupcakes. Great idea! Hope the birthday was wonderful! I think my grandson would love these too1
These are beautiful, any child would love them, not just a cupcake but you get a car too, what could be better?
Love the Hot Wheel cupcake idea, definitely going to have to remember it! Sounds like it was a great party!
OMG, this is an awesome idea. My sons birthday is coming up, and this would be perfect for him. He loves Hot Wheels. Thank you for the great idea.
I love the effect of the sprinkles on the cupcake. Very cool!
It makes the icing a little crunchy but it looks soooo cool!
What a neat idea, I’m passing this on to my daughter in law.
This is such a neat idea!!
I have to make my son this as a treat. He just loves Hot Wheels. Next time he does something REALLY good, I’m making these for him. 🙂
I love these cupcakes! What a wonderful idea for a birthday party! Thank you!
Thanks!
These are perfect for my son’s birthday party, thanks!
These are too cute!! I am so doing this for our little guys birthday!! 🙂
so creative!
I love the cupcake decorations!
These cupcakes would bring a smile to any childs face
What a unique idea! How do you stop the bickering at a party over who gets to pick what car though?
we had a few kids trade eachother but no fighting at all
Great idea; love it!
love this idea.im always on the look for something unique and different for kids birthsay parties,and we always have a steady supply of golf tees.
lol yup, it wasn’t hard to find a bunch of golf tees!
What a great idea. My sons b-day is coming up and he wants to help make these for his party
These are great! Where did you get the black sugar ?
I got it at the Bulk Barn
Thank you for sharing your idea. I am going to use this for my grandsons birthday. Thanks again 🙂
These are perfect for my son who will turn 9 in a couple weeks! He asked for a hot wheels Birthday and definitely going to make these cute cupcakes!! What a brillant idea of the hot wheel cars on the cupcakes and that each child can take it home and Love the asphalt effect! I have a couple silly questions: Did you put the black sugar sprinkles on the adult cupcakes as well? Also, I bought from Joann’s 2 cupcake stand holders..can I leave the cupcakes out on the table on them or do you refrigerate the cupcakes..They are buttercream frosting. Thank you so much and LOVE all the pictures, I’m sure your son and everyone had a BLAST!!! 🙂
My husband and I were the only adults so I wasn’t too worried about it, but the sprinkles WILL give you a bit of a purple tongue/lips lol so you could definitely leave those off for adults if you wanted. I did not refrigerate the cupcakes. We did have to travel with them and they held up really well, the golf tees worked like a charm! Have a fun party!
I love these cupcakes,wow you are right about pinterest you can find anything there
These would be great for my oldest son’s birthday party! Such a great idea.
Fun this would be perfect for my grandson turning 7
I don’t know how you come up with these amazing ideas but this is another great way to decorate a cake or cupcake and have the boys love them not just because they’re a treat but because they’re cool too
Neat idea – my grandson would love these.
I love your idea for a Hot Wheels party for boys (and a girl). I also love the idea of cupcakes which would be so much easier to handle than cake. The car on top of the cupcake is a genius touch. Thank you for these ideas-so worth trying out for young boys.
What size golf tees did you get? Where did you buy them?
My husband had a new bag in his golf bag so I just used them, I didn’t even know they came in sizes lol
Love your theme! Would like to do something similar for my son. Question though: did you place the cars on anything before putting them on the frosting for sanitary reasons? Or wipe down the cars before placing them on the cupcakes?
Just a quick wipe down
I was wondering if you are able to separate the cars from the tees after they have been attached? Like when the kids take them home, can they actually use them as a car?
absolutely, they just pop right off