Coolest Train Cake Idea

I made this Train Cake Idea for the son of a friend of mine who loves trains. I baked 3 banana cakes (only because I had lots of over ripe banana’s to get rid of) using a loaf tin and with a coconut cream can that had been washed thoroughly I baked another cake to make the cylinder shape for the boiler/locomotive. When all the loaf cakes were cooled I trimmed the tops to make them level.

With the cylinder cake I sliced about 2 cm off the side, so it would sit flatly on top of one of the loaf cakes. With the other 2 loaves I cut them to shape to make the wagons carrying it’s cargo of lollies and to finish the locomotive part for the train driver, using a couple of skewers to keep the cakes from falling apart.

I then used butter cream to “dirty ice” each cake and this was all on Day 1. The next morning I covered each cake with different coloured fondant, (I used boxed white icing from the local grocery store and coloured it myself … except for the black fondant which I had left over from another cake).

I used Oreo cookies for the wheels which were glued on using buttercream icing. M&M’s were used for the middle of the wheels. And various lollies were glued on top of each car with icing. I used chocolate gold coins as it gave a cool effect. I then used a Ferro Rocher chocolate for the part of the train where the steam comes out of, which went well with the lolly theme. The train track was made of black licorice and wafer sticks.

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