For my daughter’s 1st birthday we decided to make a carrot cake inspired by her favorite toy at the time, a Choo Choo Cake. We wanted to make it as a baby friendly as possible! I started off by making a carrot cake in a square pan and used the additional batter to make little … Read more
My kids love Thomas the train engine and after seeing the train cakes on this website I was encouraged to try. For the prototype I made an Engine and two carriages using pound cake with butter cream icing, spending half a day. The next day we tasted the cake and found that the butter icing … Read more
This train birthday cake was so much fun to create, although it took a long time! I just used store-bought chocolate cake mix and baked it in mini-loaf pans. The train cars are the loaf-pan upside-down, so they would be flat on top, and I sliced a little off the rounded part so they would … Read more
I made this train birthday cake for my sons 2nd birthday. I got the idea from looking at this website along with some other ideas I had seen. The cake is three Sara Lee frozen pound cakes, cut to shape and the icing is store bought that I colored. My favorite part is the smoke … Read more
I made this train cake for a friends little girl who is crazy about trains. I purchased the train mold pan from Williams Sonoma. The type of cake I baked was a pound cake. I used the same recipe from a book called Whimsical Bake house. Everything was edible except for the plastic animals. The … Read more
I used a train cake pan and used 2 cake mixes for this Christmas Train Cake idea and cooked them and then cooled at least 2 hours. Then I frosted the cake board with frosting, then layered with candy for the tracks, then placed them were I wanted them to go and decorated with candy … Read more
For my nephew’s 4th birthday he wanted a train birthday cake like Thomas the train. So I looked around and found a few ideas and tried my best to come up with something fun for all the kids. Each of the four cakes were different flavors and iced with a great buttercream frosting. I really … Read more
My 2 year old boy is obsessed with trains, so naturally, I started searching for train cakes. I found many pictures on this site that I liked and made my own version of a Train Birthday Cake. I started with a 4ftX6ft sheet of coroplast board for the base. I laid out the cakes to … Read more
For my son’s 2nd birthday I decided to make a homemade Choo Choo train Cake for him as he loves choo choo trains. I worked from my imagination only and created a 3D sculpture of a train by stacking together various sponge cake shapes, iced with coloured frosting and lollies to create grass and train … Read more
I got the idea for this Homemade Train Birthday Cake Design from this website and from the information and pictures that other people posted here. Thanks! I made 3 loaf pans, and one tin can. I ended up not using half of one of the loaf cans. I used 2 cake boxes in total. I … Read more
I had gotten a last minute call from my sister, our 2 nephews turning 4 and 5 were having a last minute birthday party together and she asked me to make a cake as I’m a stay home mom and had the time as no one else did. I thought what about loaf cakes and … Read more
I was asked to do a cake for a 1 year old boy who loved trains…but not the typical “Thomas” the train type of cake, something with scenery. So I came up with this Choo Choo Train Tiered Cake design, a three-tiered chocolate and vanilla cake, with farm scenery, stone tunnel, and blue skies with … Read more