I used a Wilton train cake pan for my Thomas the Tank Birthday Cake. It wasn’t really easy, as I had to totally ignore the impressions from this generic train pan. I kept a Thomas picture on my computer, and just followed as best I could freehand.
I made this Thomas the Tank Engine Birthday Cake for a 2 yr old boy’s birthday party. I made Thomas’ face from fondant. I baked a 11 x 18 white cake with strawberry filling. I made a smaller white cake that I cut to size to fit Thomas’ face, so it would stick up on … Read more
My son is obsessed with Thomas, so for his 2nd birthday, we decided to attempt a homemade Thomas the Train birthday cake for him. I enlarged a Thomas coloring sheet & then did a trial run on a large sheet of paper. As suggested by another contributor, I traced the Thomas design onto parchment paper, … Read more
I made this Thomas the Train Cake Design for my friend’s son. Keeping in mind, it was serving 50 people, I used 5 cake mixes, about 2 lb butter-cream and 2 to 3 lb of fondant. As a first timer, went pretty well. I used 2 round pans, one 12″ and one 9 “, both … Read more
My girlfriend’s daughter was turning 3, and loves Thomas the tank engine, so I volunteered to make the Thomas Cake. It went from a small project, to “how on earth am I going to store and transport this thing” and my personal favourite comment from the hubby “How are you going to top this for … Read more
My son, Devyn, turned 3. He said he wanted a “Thomas cake with fire”, which meant he wanted candles. I bought 2 boxes of Duncan Hines Devil’s Food Chocolate Cake and Betty Crocker Cream Cheese frosting. I had to bake the cake about an extra 20-30min in addition to the 38 min recommendation. Then I … Read more
I made this Thomas the Tank Engine Cake over the period of two days and it was my first attempt at a novelty cake. I had a great time!! Everything is edible! The base is an egg less vanilla base with chocolate butter cream on one side and the other side a egg vanilla sponge … Read more
Im afraid I can’t claim originality for this train cake as I used the design from Debbie Browne’s Character cake book. The basic cake is Maderia 12 x 8 and cut into 3 equal rectangular shapes (4 x 8 ) which are placed on top of sandwiched with butterfilling / jam. The train shape is … Read more
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