My son just turned 3 and he told me he wanted a choo-choo train cake but he did not want Thomas. Which was really odd cause he loves Thomas, but that was his stipulations. So this is what turned out. I made one-13×9, one 8×8, and one empty soup can of cake made from one … Read more
My niece insisted on having a pink train birthday cake for her 4th birthday! I bought the Wilton Choo Choo train cake pan on EBay and for the train cars I baked 2 loaves and cut them to the sizes I wanted. I bought the cake mix in bulk from Bulk Barn (It was easiest … Read more
I made this train cake for my son’s second birthday. He loves trains so I decided to search in the internet and found this website. Thank you so much for making this cake possible. My train cake is made up of red velvet pound cake and orange pound cake. I used chocolate licorice and Oreo … Read more
I was so pleased with how adorable this 3D Train Birthday Cake Idea turned out. My 3 year old is a train fanatic! I used a Wilton Cake mold for the engine and printed the instructions off the Wilton web site and also got decorating color ideas there. If you’re looking for something good to … Read more
This Train Birthday Cake was fun and pretty easy. All the party guests were very impressed. It’s a store bought sheet cake for the base, wanted it to be simple and easy. Then I used a pattern for gingerbread trains used for the winter holidays. We ordered the cake and made the train the day … Read more
After researching different web sites for train cakes, I have decided to take the best ideas add my own and create what I hoped will be a wonderful cake. I was very happy with the end results of this choo choo train cake. I started by using two cake mixes, pouring them into two square … Read more
I used a Wilton 3D locomotive train cake for engine and multiple loaf pans for various cars. I shortened one loaf pan and stacked it on the top middle of the “short” loaf – making a “caboose” effect. For the smoke stack – I used an ice cream cone and iced it up like a … Read more
This train birthday cake is the Strasburg Railroads Canadian National Engine 89. My son is obsessed with trains and one of his favorite books is “Steam Train Ride” which features this actual train from the Strasburg Railroad in Pennsylvania. So although he spends hours playing with his Thomas train, his request for his 3rd Birthday … Read more
My little boy loved trains so for his first birthday I decided to make him a train birthday cake. I had absolutely no idea where to start so I baked two oblong Victoria sponges. I placed one standing upwards and one lying at the foot of the first. I put blue icing all over it … Read more
I prepared this train birthday cake from two cake mixes, my sons favorite ones,rainbow bit and chocolate. I rented the engine pan from my local cake store and made the cars out of loaf pans. The wheels are oreo’s and I used smarties for the cargo. The icing was the difficult part I put each … Read more
I was asked to do a train shape cake for a two year old girl that loves trains. All the trains were boyish looking so I had to come up with this one using the colors her mother picked out. I just used a 9×13 cake and buttercream icing. For the train I covered cardboard … Read more
This was the first cake I had ever done. My son was turning one and I wanted to do something special for his birthday so decided on a train cake. The two main train cars were made from a large cake cut into smaller sections. Each of the smaller train cars were individual mini pound … Read more