My son is slightly obsessed with Thomas the train. So I made this cake for his third birthday party. I wrapped Thomas wrapping paper around cardboard for the bottom pieces. I also wrapped a small piece of cardboard for the “roof” of one of the cars and held it up with some frosting and suckers. … Read more
This train cake was made using a train pan from Williams Sonoma. I made the vanilla cake recipe that was included with the pan. Decided this wasnt a good idea as the cake was too moist though absolutely delicious. This cake required a stronger recipe to hold up to a lot of decoration including the … Read more
We made this train shape cake for our sons first birthday. We got the idea for this train cake from this website. We used the Wilton 3D Choo Choo Train cake pan to make the train and two regular loaf pans for the train cars. We used coconut for the grass, Kit Kats for the … Read more
All little boys love trains, so we decided to throw a choo choo party for my son’s 3rd birthday. We live in small community and we don’t have much for professional cake decorators, so we took it upon ourselves to create our own train cake. It turned out much better than expected! We started by … Read more
I made this Train Birthday Cake for my 2 year old son who loves trains, trucks & cars. I made it with two square sponge cakes which I iced together and then cut out the shapes. I iced with icing made of plain icing sugar and water and colouring of red, green and yellow. It … Read more
Since my son Teague is obsessed with Choo Choo Trains I had to make him a Train Birthday Cake. I used two cake mixes for the trains and a batch of crispy treats. I made a total of 6 cakes out of bread loaf pans. The cakes turned out thin and it made them easier … Read more
I took my favorite ideas from this site and combined them all to make this Homemade Five Car Train Birthday Cake for my son’s 5th birthday. Half of the cake is coconut pound cake, the other half chocolate pound cake, as it is dense and easier to work with when cutting into shapes. I baked … Read more
I began with a standard 11×15 sheet and a photo of the rail engine that George is engineer on. His mother asked for something that would commemorate not just that he was 50 years old, but also included his profession and lifelong love of the railroad. I incorporated an actual photo of George ‘standing’ on … Read more
I started this Homemade Train Birthday Cake Design with making the train tracks by making a chocolate chip cookie dough and pressing it into a bar pan and then used m&ms to make a track covering three sides of the cookie and then baked it (I should have put the name in the middle of … Read more
This Train Birthday Cake was a labor of love for me. It took most of an afternoon and until 1am in the morning to finish it. The train cake pan was a great idea except that you obviously had to coat every nook and cranny with Crisco (I used a q-tip to get in all … Read more
I made this train birthday cake for a 2 year-old boy I baby-sit for and he was very excited about it. It’s very easy to make. I used 3 mini loaf pans for the cars. The locomotive is made of one loaf to make the body and the cab (just make it shorter than the … Read more
