I made this train cake for my son’s 4th birthday. He just loves trains and enjoyed this cake heaps. It was a very easy cake to make as it was made only from two loaf tins. One of these was cut into 4’s for the carriages, the other was cut and “glued ” together for … Read more
I am so appreciative of all the train cake ideas I found on this site and wanted to share the results of my research on of a Choo Choo Train Birthday Cake. Each of the trains were made from a dense devils food recipe. The steam engine is from two bread pans and the rest … 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 did a Train theme for my sons first birthday. I used store bought cake and frosting and tinted the frosting with gel food color. For each train, I used a loaf pan and for the engine, I used a loaf pan with about a third of a loaf pan on top. I used dowels … Read more
I made this train cake for my son’s 2nd birthday, having been inspired by some others on this website!. I did cheat a little bit with the actual cake – I bought two sponges and one Swiss roll and cut to shape. The icing is fondant icing colored with food colouring. The grass is coconut … Read more
This Thomas the Train Cake was made for a 4 year old who loves Thomas. The first layer was a 2-layer 10 inch round yellow cake. Second layer was a chocolate 2 layer. Both layers were covered in buttercream. All accents were fondant. The Thomas on the top was made of rice krispy treats covered … Read more
I made this Train Mountain Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used 2 boxes of chocolate cake mix, making 4 round pans (I only needed 3 for the cake). Three batches of chocolate buttercream icing just to be safe (I had lots left over, so probably 2 would do). I used 2 of the … Read more
My son couldn’t decide between a Mickey Mouse cake and a train cake, so I decided to combine them. This site was a huge help. I bought 3 frozen pound cakes, which is a HUGE time saver and still tasted great. I bought some gel icing coloring (I bought the “Cars” kit) and colored the … 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
I baked this train cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I purchased a 3-D cake train mold from Ebay. I baked the cake and two smaller ones in loaf pans. I used wafer cookies and Twizzlers for the track. Just use frosting to help stick. I just colored regular store frosting. For the smoke I … Read more
Our son became obsessed with Thomas and Island of Sodor just before his second birthday so it was easy to know that he would want a Thomas the Tank Engine cake. Instead of making the cake into a train itself we decided to create a train scene like the “Island of Sodor.” We made a … 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