For my sons 4th birthday, we had his party at the California State Railroad Museum. The theme was Thomas the Tank Engine, and I made his Thomas the Train cake from scratch. These are the basic steps: Make 2 patches of old-fashioned pound cake batter baked in a can (like a pumpkin puree can), a … Read more
I made this Thomas the Train cake, for my nephew. I used a Thomas cake pan and used butter icing coloured with gel colourings.s.
This Thomas the Tank cake was for my sons 3rd birthday. For the tracks I baked a large rectangle cake and cut it into smaller pieces. I then iced them using light brown, filled in the grass and the dark brown of the tracks. To make them look like wood I streaked lines in them … Read more
This is the Thomas cake I made for my two year old son. I spent a long time getting ideas from this site, thank you everyone. I used frozen pound cake and then cut each one into four slices for the carriages. Then I cut out a space in the top of each one and … Read more
This Thomas the Tank cake was for my son’s second birthday. I got the idea from a friend’s cake book (can’t recall the name of it). I used a 13×9 glass pan and baked two boxes of prepared cake mix as the boxes called for. When the cake cooled, I placed the cake on cardboard … Read more
I used a Madeira cake recipe and hired all three tins from local cake shop for this Thomas The Train Birthday Cake. I used a recipe for royal icing and made different food colouring to colour batches and stored in air tight containers. I used a pallette knife to spread grey on the top of … Read more
My grandson Parker loves Thomas. In fact this is the fifth time for a Thomas cake. I try to change the cake each year. This year I went with a Thomas and Friends Birthday Cake in the Round House. Thomas, James and Percy were all used with the Wilton train 3-D pan. I used a … Read more
This homemade Thomas the Tank cake was made for a friends son’s birthday, he is mad on Thomas the tank engine! I used a train cake tin, but still had to adjust the cuts to make it look more like Thomas. This was then covered in fondant icing and piped with gel icing. The pebbles … Read more
I was inspired by others on this site to try this Homemade Thomas The Train Birthday Cake. My son loves Thomas the Train, so I decided to make him this cake for his 4th birthday party. I bought the accessories online, which included the face, train wheels, smoke stack etc. The directions included with the … Read more
The inspiration for this Thomas the Train Birthday Cake is our son, Hunter, as he is absolutely in love with Thomas the Train. He sleeps with a Thomas the Train blanket, wears Thomas the Train clothes, and exclaims “Thomas” each time he sees him. It only seemed fitting to make him a Thomas the Train … Read more
I made this cake for my son’s 4th birthday. I used the 3d Wilton train pan and yellow cake mix (from a box) for the train, the base of the cake I made marble cake by filling the 11×13 pan first with yellow cake mix then making a batch of chocolate cake mix, pouring lines … Read more
This is a Thomas The Tank Engine Cake that I made for my son’s 2nd birthday. I knew I wanted a Thomas cake, but for ideas I once again searched this website and came up with a few ideas. The night before I baked the cakes, I printed out a picture of Thomas, taped it … Read more