The idea for this cake was the Island of Sodor. It’s supposed to be an island with beach and blue contact for the ocean. I know it’s a rich cake for kids but it means that you can get away with only giving them a little bit. Also my son loves it and it’s his … Read more
Since my son loves Thomas, I made this Homemade Thomas The Train Birthday Cake Design for his 2nd birthday. I used Wilton’s 3D train cake pan to bake a yellow cake from a box. This is a covered pan so the train impression can be on both sides, I would suggest filling the pan all … Read more
This Thomas the Train Birthday Cake is actually 2 boxes of cake, 1 box for 2 8″ pans and 1 for a spring form pan, which is bigger for the bottom layer. I used a bread knife in the blue icing to help keep the lines uniform. Those are chocolate rocks I happened to find … Read more
This is the train I made for a co-worker’s son’s 2nd birthday. For the face I used rolled fondant. I used small balls of fondant under his nose and cheeks. The face came from another website that had a great step by step on how to do the face-Unfortunately I can’t remember the URL but … Read more
Well I wanted to do a Thomas cake but could not find the Thomas Cake Pan. So I decided to design my own Homemade Thomas The Tank Engine 4th birthday cake with the help of my husband. Firstly, I used a rectangle cake pan and baked 2 cakes, using 2 pound cake mixes each. Next, … Read more
I made this James cake (from Thomas the Tank Engine) for my sons 7th birthday. He has always loved Thomas and since his middle name is James (and I had made him a Thomas the train cake for a previous birthday), we settled on James. This was a very time consuming cake! But the end … Read more
I made this Thomas birthday cake for a friend whos little boy is Thomas mad. The train is made completely from solid pieces of fondant icing coloured blue, the details painted on with diluted food colouring afterwards. The wheels were made by imprinting the real Thomas’s wheels into the fondant (with a good wash and … Read more
This Thomas the Tank Engine cake was made for an obsessive two year old! This was cut out of a few rectangular Madeira cakes, which were frozen to make them easier to cut into shapes! Plenty of blue fondant and piped to look like Edward from Thomas the tank engine number 2 of course!
My son wanted a Thomas cake for his fifth birthday. He also decided he wanted his new train set to go on the cake but that wasnt enough, he wanted it to move on the tracks. The smallest track circle that I could make using our Thomas track was 18″ across. I purchased the biggest … Read more
My son Dillon loves trains so it was no surprise when he picked a train birthday cake for his third birthday. I looked through this site and got some great ideas. I was going to build the engine but my husband had already picked up the Wilton 3D pan. I loved it. It was easy … Read more
I used an old Women’s Weekly Cookbook that had a train in it. I used it as a guide as to how many cakes to make and roughly how to assemble the carriages of this Thomas the tank cake. I used 4 butter cake mixtures (White Wings) and divided into 8 loaf tins (21cm x … Read more
I took some of the ideas for this Thomas The Tank Engine Birthday Cake from others and used the online Thomas the Tank Engine tutorial to help make the face. I used a corn can to bake the front of the cake in and two loaf pans for the rest of it. The face is … Read more