I wanted to make a Homemade Choo Choo Train Birthday Cake for my grandson’s second birthday but I also wanted to add some of his other favorite things. I started by covering two foam filled poster boards with foil wrap for the base and marked off the train track and road. The mountain, apple trees, … Read more
I was asked to do a train shape cake for a two year old girl that loves trains. All the trains were boyish looking so I had to come up with this one using the colors her mother picked out. I just used a 9×13 cake and buttercream icing. For the train I covered cardboard … Read more
Here is a train birthday cake using the Wilton 3D cake pan as the engine car and three loaf pans as the other cars. I put a cupcake on top of the caboose. It was very easy to do. Just ice the train birthday cake and add candy and Voila!
This Train Birthday Cake was my second go at making a birthday cake and using Fondant icing! Wow I’m addicted. I used chocolate mud cake packet mix from supermarket, (I found mud cake holds shape better, its heavier and more moist I guess). And I also used slabs of sponge cake from the supermarket for … Read more
A friend asked me to do a train shape cake for her sons third birthday. I used the plate as a design and just drew it out on the cake using a toothpick, then filled it in with buttercream icing. She said it looked great with the decorations and was a big hit for her … Read more
This train birthday cake is the Strasburg Railroads Canadian National Engine 89. My son is obsessed with trains and one of his favorite books is “Steam Train Ride” which features this actual train from the Strasburg Railroad in Pennsylvania. So although he spends hours playing with his Thomas train, his request for his 3rd Birthday … Read more
My husband took our children to see “How To Train Your Dragon” and they were immediately smitten with the movie. My son’s birthday was coming up and when I asked him what kind of cake he would like he said he wanted a dragon cake. When I asked him his favorite he said that “Toothless” … 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
I didnt have a cake pan to make a 3D train birthday cake, so I had to just cut and trim by hand. I ended up with having a main train and then three train cars after it. The first one carried different colored animal cookies. The rails are made of chocolate wafer roll and … Read more
Thanks to this site I made my little boys first train shape cake. I used small loaf rubber pans with butter cake and chocolate cake box mixes. I found that the butter cake mix was easier to frost. I baked the six loaves and put them in the freezer the night before the party. The … Read more
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 got the idea for this train shape cake from this site (thanks!). I made this for my sons third birthday because he’s all about trains right now. It was a huge hit! I did the following the night before the party. I used two fun-fetti cake mixes and baked it in four mini-loaf pans … Read more