I made this train cake for my son’s 2nd birthday, having been inspired by some others on this website!. I did cheat a little bit with the actual cake – I bought two sponges and one Swiss roll and cut to shape. The icing is fondant icing colored with food colouring. The grass is coconut … Read more
This organic train tunnel cake came about because our son Devon wanted a train cake and a gingerbread house. It seemed like a good idea to turn the house into a tunnel. It actually wasn’t all that hard to make, with some advance preparation. Several weeks beforehand, we baked up a bunch of small gingerbread … Read more
This chocolate train cake is for my son’s fourth birthday. He loved it. Got the main idea from Annabell’s website. I Googled – ‘no bake train cake’ and hey presto got her site. Easy, yummy & my son was jumping up down when he saw it.
My grandson loves trains, mainly Thomas the train. But he is also fascinated with railroad crossings. He lives in tornado alley, and has had lots of tornado warnings this year, so needless to say he is really intrigued with tornados. So I made him this 13×9 train cake with cream cheese frosting. I first tinted … Read more
What I used: 24×48 piece of plywood aluminum foil 3 boxes of cake mix 3 containers of white frosting, food coloring gel icing (for any writing you do) Swedish fish green sugar (find near sprinkles) 1 package of chocolate Twizzlers 2 packs of kit kats 6 oreos 20 mini oreos mini ice cream cone (Joy … Read more
This train cake was made for a customer whose husband works for BNSF as an engineer. The train was made of 2 11×15 sheet cakes, each cut in half (to make 11×7.5) and stacked. I froze them overnight to make carving the front of the engine easier. After trimming, I iced it and covered it … Read more
This train birthday cake was exciting and easy to make. To make the three train engines, we used frozen pound cakes. Some we cut in half and stacked and the others were just halves. We used regular vanilla frosting and food coloring to make the Thomas blue, James red, and Percy green colors. To decorate, … Read more
These types of train birthday cakes are so much fun to create! I did it for my sons birthday. I used store-bought white cake mix and baked it in mini-loaf pans. For the engine of the train birthday cake, I used a loaf and then cut a cube from an extra loaf for the back … Read more
This train cake was a blast and easy too I must say! My son Peter loves trains (choo choos) so I thought I would make a train cake for his second birthday. I got all my ideas from this website so thanks! Cars are mini loaf pans and I cut 2” off one to put … Read more
Thanks to this site I made my little boys first train shape cake. I used small loaf rubber pans with butter cake and chocolate cake box mixes. I found that the butter cake mix was easier to frost. I baked the six loaves and put them in the freezer the night before the party. The … Read more
I made Logan’s birthday train cake after viewing cakes from your site. The engine is a loaf pan and then a cut piece of cake on top of that and two Twinkies side by side also. Marshmallows and popcorn are used for smoke as well as billows of frosting for smoke around the train engine … Read more
I made this Train Mountain Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used 2 boxes of chocolate cake mix, making 4 round pans (I only needed 3 for the cake). Three batches of chocolate buttercream icing just to be safe (I had lots left over, so probably 2 would do). I used 2 of the … Read more