I made this Tinkerbbell cake for my niece’s 3rd birthday. I used her party invitations to get the idea of Tinkerbell’s pose and using her wand to dot the “i”. I used the Wilton recipe for buttercream icing, and the Wilton colors to tint the icing. When filling in Tinkerbell, I first thinned out the … Read more
I used this website for several ideas for our Thomas the Tank cake – thanks for the help. However, many of the engine cakes I liked used a 3-D cake pan, but I couldn’t find one. Thus, I had to improvise on the engine as well as other areas. I used one regular yellow cake … Read more
I made this Thomas the Train cake for my son’s 3rd birthday party which was themed Thomas the Train. I used an oval cake pan and made a homemade confetti cake with chocolate chip buttercream filling. Two days in advance, I made the rocks and railroad ties out of store bought fondant. I cut sugar … Read more
When my 2nd daughter was born we decided to design her room in Tinkerbell, so it only made sense to do her first birthday cake as a Tinkerbell cake. I used a 9×13″ pan, found a cute picture of Tinkerbell on the internet and printed it out. I then traced the picture on to my … Read more
This Thomas the tank engine cake was a very time consuming cake. I used the Wilton 3D cake pan. I cut and reshaped the cake to be more square like “Thomas” and I cut off the front grill thing cause Thomas doesn’t have that. I used Wilton paste colors to get true frosting colors, if … Read more
My daughter turned 5 & I decided this year I wanted to make her cake. I started getting my idea for a Tinkerbell cake when I saw the dragonfly stickers in a local Hobby Lobby store. I made the hill out of a casserole dish. It took 2 boxes of cake mix & a long … Read more
My six-year-old daughter asked to have a Rapunzel Birthday Cake Design this year. She and I searched for ideas together. She decided she wanted a tower and a river on her cake. I told her I would do my best! I used a 9×13 white cake to start and covered it in green frosting. Next, … Read more
This Thomas the Tank cake was a pretty easy cake to make. I baked a vanilla cake mix – 2 9-inch pans. The icing was Swiss meringue buttercream (Martha Stewart recipe); takes some time to prepare but it’s delicious, light, and not sugary. Plus, you can make it ahead of time and re whip right … Read more
I made this Tinkerbelle cake for a friend’s granddaughter’s 1st birthday. The top part of the costume and wings came with the doll. The skirt is made of yellow buttercream frosting. The over skirt and flowers are made of fondant. I used a knife to create leaf like lines on the over skirt. Then I … Read more
I used the Wilton Train 3-D cake pan to create this. It was loosely based on a Thomas the train cake, but I was determined to not have a character cake, so I added other colors and features. I used black licorice for the tracks and colored coconut green for the grass.
This is a second attempt at Thomas the Tank Engine cake, the first being over 15 years ago for my son’s 3rd birthday. This was made for a friends son’s 2. I used a Wilton 3D tin, and carved the cake into a more Thomas look before icing. I put an instant pudding mix in … Read more
I used an old Women’s Weekly Cookbook that had a train in it. I used it as a guide as to how many cakes to make and roughly how to assemble the carriages of this Thomas the tank cake. I used 4 butter cake mixtures (White Wings) and divided into 8 loaf tins (21cm x … Read more