I made this Thomas the Tank Birthday Cake Design for my nephew Jonah’s 4th birthday. I always make a cake for mine and my sister’s kids every year, so much better than store bought. I made three boxes of store bought white or chocolate cake mix. I use one 9×13, one seven to eight inch … Read more
I made this Thomas the Train birthday cake for my Thomas obsessed son’s 2nd birthday. The cake is made of a boxed mix. I got the idea from a couple of different cakes on this site. It was really easy just a bit time consuming. I frosted the whole thing in white and then made … Read more
I have been doing cakes as a side business for about six months now and love experimenting with different decorating techniques. A co-worker of mine asked if I would do a Thomas the Train cake for her stepson’s fifth birthday; she had seen a picture that looked similar to this one. She bought the topper … Read more
I made this Tidmouth Sheds cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. It is a chocolate mud cake covered in Marshmallow Fondant. I made all figurines e.g. train lighthouse, tracks, trees and rocks from fondant. I used the flooding technique to make the bridge and piped the sheep with royal icing. The sea is blue gelatin. … Read more
I found some great pictures on this website, and then had my amazing mom come and make this Thomas the Train cake using some of your ideas….so I had to submit it to hopefully help others. Pure imagination here, the boulders are Christmas cookies we had left over. The train face was printed off the … Read more
I volunteered to make a Thomas birthday cake for a friend’s 4-year-old boy. He decided he wanted Thomas the Tank Engine. So I did some research and found some great ideas online. The engine I spread on a crumb layer first and then used a star tip to icing the second layer on Thomas. I … Read more
The idea for this 3D Thomas the tank cake came from a “post your cake pictures” thread on a mom’s internet bulletin board but the “design” is my own. My challenge was to make a decent-looking natural (organic) Thomas cake without using any artificial colors. I bought my supplies at a local health food grocery … Read more
I made this Thomas cake for my sons fourth birthday. He loves Thomas and wanted a Thomas cake. The idea for this cake basically came from my imagination. I used one of my son’s Thomas trains as a model to decorate. The Thomas Engine is the 3-D Wilton Cake pan. The two cargo cars (Annie/Clarabel) … 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
My son is obsessed with Thomas the Train, as most three year olds are. When he asked for a Thomas party I took to Google images to figure out what to do for the Thomas The Train Birthday Cake Design. My mom always made my birthday cakes and apparently it has worn off and I … Read more
I started decorating cakes for my family and friends to give as gifts just recently (August 2008) and I can’t stop baking since then. This Thomas the tank engine cake is for my hubby’s nephew, Jeremiah. I baked a huge Jackfruit flavored sugar cookie and piped Thomas the Train using home-made MM sugar icing Home … Read more
I made this Thomas The Tank Engine Birthday Cake for my friend’s son for his 3rd birthday. I started with a pile of stuff, not knowing what all I’d need. I used 2 cake mixes, frosting, candies, cookies, animal crackers, Nutter Butters, spaghetti, and a carrot. Making this cake is featured step-by-step on my cooking … Read more