I had so much fun making this train cake for my son Andrews second birthday! Here is how I did it: three frozen pound cakes, two cans vanilla frosting (I split one for two cars and one for the engine), gel food coloring tubes, “writing icing”, pens toothpicks and one plastic straw, m&ms, Oreos, pull … Read more
My son wanted a train cake for his fourth birthday and after looking everywhere I decide to just bake a rectangular shape cake and cut it in shapes that can be put together in the form of a train. It results in a success. Just cut from the bottom part: the main engine and the … Read more
This train birthday cake was made for my son’s 3rd Birthday by my Aunt, whom he calls Mimi-Kaf. It was done with no mold and the train car decor ideas came from my 3-yr-old and 5-yr-old daughter. We had a trackless train & Thomas the Train Bouncy thing and when asked what was his favorite … Read more
This Train Birthday Cake was made by a friend and myself for my son’s first birthday cake. We found a very nice cake online and tried to copy it. I think we got pretty close! The train and cars were made using a lot of cake cut out into the shapes necessary and then stacked. … Read more
I made this train cake for my son’s 4th birthday. He just loves trains and enjoyed this cake heaps. It was a very easy cake to make as it was made only from two loaf tins. One of these was cut into 4’s for the carriages, the other was cut and “glued ” together for … Read more
I made this Train Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday. I had never made a cake like this, so really anyone can make them with patience and time. I got the idea from a few cakes I saw here. I used 5 pound cakes that I made myself. I got the recipe from joyofbaking.com. … Read more
I made this First Try Dinosaur Theme Train Birthday Cake for my 4 yr old girl whose favorite show is Dinosaur Train and got my inspiration from this site and the how-to video by Betty Crocker. This whole cake was made from scratch, except for the candies and licorice and ice cream cone. The ‘island’ … Read more
My cake started out as a VERY high 12inch square orange cake. I then spent a lot of time looking at a picture of the train and carriages. After reshaping the cake into several sections I covered it with chocolate truffle mix then with coloured pettinice. The picture of the train driver is done on … Read more
Our son LOVES (really LOVES) trains. He especially likes the high speed ones from Japan , Europe etc. Thanks to the web, he can learn all about them and see all of these trains in action! So for his 3rd birthday a few months ago… We baked for him an edible train cake layout! It … Read more
These type of train cakes are quite easy to make. I used two boxed cake mixes baked in loaf pans. Make four cakes and use the fourth to cut up for the engine and cars. I used Oreo cookies for the wheels and frosted marshmallow for the smokestack. I used various candies to load the … Read more
My son had two birthday parties – one in school and the other at home with our friends. The birthday cake for the home celebration was a large Black Forest cake while the school celebration one was a chocolate cake covered with chocolate ganache. Both train birthday cakes I used the same train decoration which … Read more
The whole train birthday cake was edible. I used boxed cake mix and made butter cream frosting. I first made the track with icing tinted black and Kit Kat bars. I used mini loaf pans and a tomato paste can (the littler ones) to bake the 3D train parts and also baked a sheet cake … Read more