This train birthday cake is a construction job rather than baking. Each truck is a Cadburys Mini Swiss Roll, balanced on a Rolo (or 2) with a bit cut out to put sweets in and mini Jammy Dodgers as wheels. The engine is a bigger chocolate covered Swiss Roll, balanced on 3 Rolos with 3 … Read more
I made this cake for my cousins son 2nd birthday. The cake itself is a simple cocoa sponge cake, the kind children like, and it is baked in a large oven pan. When the cake is ready you cut as many trailers as you like. I don’t fancy using too much food coloring so I … Read more
I wanted to share this train cake idea with all of you who are inspired by the fabulous cakes on this site but still dont feel up to the challenge of making your own cake from scratch! I took the train idea and recipe from one of Annabel Karmel’s books then themed it to match … Read more
The train shape cake was for my sons fourth birthday. I took ideas from several train cakes on this site and added ideas of my own to make it a circus train. I used a Wilton Train cake pan for the engine and small loaf pans for the cars. The cars were turned into cages … Read more
This cake was for my nephew’s 3rd birthday. I got the idea from a book about fondant decoration. I don’t like fondant so we improvised. I used Betty Crocker yellow cake mix. I used whipped icing (bought by mistake) and added vanilla and powdered sugar to improve the consistency. The cake consists of two 9×13 … Read more
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