Cool Homemade Choo Choo Train Birthday Cake

I made this Choo Choo Train Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. I incorporated a few different ideas that I got from this website to create this cake.

I baked 4 individual mini-loaf cakes using boxed cake mix (2 yellow cake and 2 chocolate), I used a soup can to bake the cake for the train engine then I put all the left over batter in a regular sized loaf pan so I would have extra cake for cut out shapes to complete the cake.

The smoke stack is an ice cream cone and the smoke is melted white chocolate. The wheels are chocolate wafer cookies with a white chocolate drop in the middle. I used Pirouette cookies for the log train and dark chocolate covered raisins for the coal. The tracks are make with black licorice and chocolate covered wafer cookies.

To make the custom cake plate, I used 3 pieces of cardboard glued together and covered the whole thing with fancy foil (cake supply store or craft store).