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
I started with three different kinds of cake mixes, chocolate, rainbow & lemon. I used a large loaf pan for the main part and mini disposable loaf pans for the cars. The first train has half a mini loaf on top. And on top of that is just a slice of a mini loaf cake. … Read more
This Train Birthday Cake was my second go at making a birthday cake and using Fondant icing! Wow I’m addicted. I used chocolate mud cake packet mix from supermarket, (I found mud cake holds shape better, its heavier and more moist I guess). And I also used slabs of sponge cake from the supermarket for … Read more
This Train Birthday Cake was made for my friend Sarah’s 23rd birthday. She loves pink and had seen a chocolate train cake that I’d made for a housemate in my first year of university, and wanted one herself. I only had a few hours to make this cake but luckily it worked out really well. … Read more
My last born Marjan was turning five. It was the first time that he asked me to make what he wanted. He said he wanted a cho cho train cake. Got ideas from many books and websites. Made a block vanilla cake (8 eggs cake) and one Swiss roll ( 3 eggs, 3/4 cups icing … Read more
My son absolutely loves trains. For his second birthday I decided to attempt the task to make him an amazing train cake. The day before I made 3 loaf cakes. I also used a green bean can for the engine. I sprayed it with Pam and flour prior to filling the can 3/4 full with … Read more