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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
This is a Thomas the Tank Engine Birthday Cake that I made for my four year old son’s last birthday. He is a huge Thomas fan and he loved it so I hope your child will too. I made it by baking two Madeira rectangular pound cakes- split and filled with vanilla cream and lemon … Read more
I only started making cakes last year, it started off just basic cakes like Victoria sandwich etc. I made my mum a birthday cake and it was the first one I covered in fondant icing, after that I loved making cakes and decorating them. My cousin was quite impressed with some of the cakes I … Read more
I started watching a cake decorating show on T.V. and fell in love with it, so when it came time for my grand-son Tyson’s fourth birthday, I wanted to try to do his cake. I had never made any homemade cakes, icings or anything. I went on-line and found this site. Without it, I would … Read more
My hobby is cake baking and decorating. A good friend of mine asked me to bake her son a birthday cake – he wanted Percy the Train. I began to research images of Percy on the Internet when I came across this site. I looked at many cakes and decided that I was going to … Read more
I tried to incorporate ideas of train cakes I saw at a website I found. Thanks to everyone who made train cakes and posted them here!! I used a Thomas the Engine cake mold for the main car. Printed out a picture of Gordons face and cut it out. Used licorice for the red stripes … Read more
We were inspired by the topper that you can purchase on certain Thomas the Tank Engine web sites. Instead of buying their cake my sister-in-law and I did it ourselves.
This Thomas the Tank Engine cake was for our son George who turned two. We convinced ourselves we could make a Thomas the Tank Engine cake after finding this site and seeing all the great ideas. We made the cars using pound cake in loaf pans and cut to shape accordingly. We cut a wedge … Read more
For this Thomas cake I made three round cakes on their sides with the bottom cut flat. The rest of the cakes were from sheet cakes and I used a lot of buttercream. Im pleased with my cake.m pleased with my cake.
This was my daughters second birthday cake. She loved the zoo so we had a “2 the Zoo” train birthday cake. I got the idea from looking at lots of different ways to make train cakes. I made the train birthday cake using mini loaf pans. For variety I cut some of the cakes into … Read more
I started decorating cakes for my family and friends to give as gifts just recently (August 2008) and I can’t stop baking since then. This Thomas the tank engine cake is for my hubby’s nephew, Jeremiah. I baked a huge Jackfruit flavored sugar cookie and piped Thomas the Train using home-made MM sugar icing Home … Read more
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.