I made this train cake for a co-worker’s son’s 2nd birthday. I wanted it to be a fun colorful cake that a 2 year old would like. Everything but the train engine, candles and trees were made of candy or icing. For the wheels I use coconut chocolate cookies. The letters are iced sugar cookies. I filled … Read more
The train cake is carrot cake with butter cream cream cheese frosting. The trains are fondant shaped and molder smaller pieces were made ahead and glued on with Vodka. We used luster dust to make the metal pieces shine. I used our dining room table to roll out the fondant for the tracks so they would have a natural wood … Read more
I made this cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. It was made from a Wilton cake pan in the shape of a train engine . The rest of the bogies were cut free hand from a template. The cake was boxed cake mix rich chocolate with eggs available in India. Totally used six single pan … Read more
My 6 year old LOVES trains. It was fitting that he have a train cake for his birthday. I used buttercream to cover this cake instead of fondant. For the wheels I used mini oreos, the steam spout was a mini icecream cone rolled in sprinkles and filled with white buttercream frosting. It was a hit with … Read more
My twin 6 year old boys LOVE trains! For the past few years they have requested train cakes. I was out of ideas and one day while waiting for a train I hopped out of the car and took a picture of the crossing with my phone. And that is where this railroad crossing gate … Read more
I baked a delicious and easy chocolate cake for this train cake and let it cool. I turned it out onto a cake board I made from a baking tray and silver paper. Then I made green vanilla butter cream and spread it onto the cake with a spatula and created a grassy effect with a serrated knife. … Read more
This Train Cake is for Rishika’s 5th birthday party on 2nd Jan 2011 in Mumbai, India. I made 6 cakes – 6 inches X 3 inches loaves (I have used normal sponge cake) – trim the edges of 5 cakes to make suitable sized train wagons and an engine (cylindrical shaped with a 2 cm rectangular … Read more
This train cake was for my son’s 4th birthday. I have a cake pan for the loco-motive and used small bread pans for the freight cars. Butter cream icing – lots of it. Used chocolate cookies for the wheels and coupling and jelly beans as freight. Make your icing ahead of time, will save you … Read more
I made this train birthday cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used a big loaf pan and 2 smaller ones which worked out to be the same volume as 2 regular cake pans. I made 3 batches of cake, ending up with 3 big loaves and 6 small ones. For the engine, I used … Read more
Nolyn, now 2 years old as of May 4, 2009 loves his train set he got this year from Santa. I decided months prior to his birthday that we were having a Train Birthday Party. I was determined but had no idea where to start. I found plenty of Thomas the Train cake pans and … Read more
To start this Train Cake Design I used two box cake mixes. I used two different size loaf pans, a tomato paste can, a diced tomato can and also mini muffin pans. For the engine I used the bigger loaf pan on the bottom, used wooden skewers to hook half a smaller loaf pan on … Read more
I made this Train Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday from the ideas on your website and the Wilton website. He absolutely loved it and so did everyone else! I made 3 different flavours: Chocolate, Cherry Chip and Rainbow. I used cake mixes from the store and omitted the extra water (used only 1 … Read more