I was bound and determined to make my son a 3D train cake for his second birthday. It took about five hours and was so worth it when I saw the look on his face. I used a 3D cake pan and used a pound cake recipe. It only required 3 different icing tips and … Read more
I made this Homemade Choo Choo Train Birthday Cake for my son’s recent 2nd birthday party. His love for trains had given me the idea for a train themed party. I started searching for the perfect train cake and immediately fell in love with the 3D cakes. I then started contacting local bakeries and was … Read more
I made this cake for my sons 3rd birthday. We had a choo-choo-train theme for his party complete with an actual scenic train ride with the Lebanon Railway. I used the Wilton train cakes pan for the engine and the cars were made with a bread loaf pan, and then cut in half lengthwise. I … Read more
I wanted to make a 3-D train cake. I looked at the ideas on this page for train birthday cakes and came up with this. I used 2 tin foil loaf pans (standard loaf size) and one mini loaf pan. I used one box of standard cake mix. I filled both standard loaf pans about … Read more
This was a birthday gift for our neighbor who is a steam engine buff. We printed out some pictures from the internet of a train birthday cake and tried to be as accurate as possible. This was for an adult. We basically used mini loaf pans and 3 different sizes of cupcakes. We had to … Read more
I made this train shape cake for a friends little boy’s second birthday party. She had an invitation printed with a train on it with all these different types of train cars on it. I thought it would be nice to have the cake look just like the invitation. I assembled them all first using … Read more
This train cake was for my son’s 4th birthday. I have a cake pan for the loco-motive and used small bread pans for the freight cars. Butter cream icing – lots of it. Used chocolate cookies for the wheels and coupling and jelly beans as freight. Make your icing ahead of time, will save you … Read more
I made this train birthday cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used a big loaf pan and 2 smaller ones which worked out to be the same volume as 2 regular cake pans. I made 3 batches of cake, ending up with 3 big loaves and 6 small ones. For the engine, I used … Read more
Nolyn, now 2 years old as of May 4, 2009 loves his train set he got this year from Santa. I decided months prior to his birthday that we were having a Train Birthday Party. I was determined but had no idea where to start. I found plenty of Thomas the Train cake pans and … Read more
To start this Train Cake Design I used two box cake mixes. I used two different size loaf pans, a tomato paste can, a diced tomato can and also mini muffin pans. For the engine I used the bigger loaf pan on the bottom, used wooden skewers to hook half a smaller loaf pan on … Read more
I made this Train Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday from the ideas on your website and the Wilton website. He absolutely loved it and so did everyone else! I made 3 different flavours: Chocolate, Cherry Chip and Rainbow. I used cake mixes from the store and omitted the extra water (used only 1 … Read more
This is the Train Cake Idea I made for my son Connor’s first birthday. For the front train, I used a train cake pan and chocolate cake. I also cut out a picture of Connor for the window. For the train cars I used disposable loaf pans (since they come in various sizes). The animal … Read more