I made this First Birthday Train Cake for my son’s first birthday. It is made of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. The frosting was a little messy but worked well when refrigerated before frosting. I used gel color to die the frosting the various colors for the engine and cars, except the “animal car” … Read more
I started to make this Train Cake by baking individual square cupcakes (I found the square cupcake tin in a local supermarket). I then sandwiched two square cupcakes together with jam and butter cream to make the carriages tall. I iced all the carriages using royal ready to roll pre-coloured icing and stuck smarties and … Read more
For the engine, I used the Wilton, 2 piece 3D choo-choo pan. For the middle, “coal” car and the caboose, I used a regular, deep loaf pan. I cut just a bit off of the front of the caboose to make the top and back platform. To decorate: I used a star tip for most … Read more
My son Dillon loves trains so it was no surprise when he picked a train birthday cake for his third birthday. I looked through this site and got some great ideas. I was going to build the engine but my husband had already picked up the Wilton 3D pan. I loved it. It was easy … Read more
Using two box cake mixes I put the batter into mini loaf pans as well as a Pyrex set that had containers just perfect for the engine and caboose. I used butter cream frosting I bought at the local grocers bakery so the colors where nice and bright. The licorice track stayed put nicely after … Read more
Our son wanted a train cake for his third birthday. My husband and I brainstormed and came up with this idea. I baked four or five loaf shaped pound cakes, one for the animal car and the rest for the train. We leveled the layers and “glued” them together with frosting then my husband carved … Read more
My son couldn’t decide between a Mickey Mouse cake and a train cake, so I decided to combine them. This site was a huge help. I bought 3 frozen pound cakes, which is a HUGE time saver and still tasted great. I bought some gel icing coloring (I bought the “Cars” kit) and colored the … Read more
I borrowed a lot of ideas for a train cake from this site, and modified to fit my son’s first birthday. I used Nutty Bars and black licorice for the track, and Oreos for the wheels. The mini-loaf pans worked wonderfully for the train cars, using 2 for the engine and 1&1/2 for the caboose, … Read more
I used a #1 cake pan for the base of the train birthday cake and used the Nordic Ware 3D train cake pan to create each train car. I used box cakes but combined a yellow and chocolate cake mix so that the cake was marbled. I iced the cake and train cars first with … Read more
I made this Train Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. I used cupcakes for the wheels and smoke. I used a 9 x 13 cake and cut it in the shape of the train that I wanted!
I started this train choo choo cake with the Wilton site for the engine! I used their pan and pretty much followed their directions for how to decorate. The only thing I really did differently was instead of trying to hold wheels on with frosting is I used toothpicks. It looked much nicer and held … Read more
I made this train cake for my son’s second birthday. Thanks to this website I gathered up many ideas on making this cake. It was a huge hit and everyone was taking pictures of it. I started by making yellow cake mix in mini loaf pans. I used two boxes of mix and made 6 … Read more