This Thomas the train cake was very difficult to make, but I cannot take all the credit, y friend helped make it. It was a success, my son absolutely loved it. It was gone in a matter of slices. The fondant was a little hard considering this was the first time I was using fondant. … Read more
When my 4 year old wanted a Gordon cake for his birthday I freaked! For anyone who doesn’t have a Thomas the Tank Engine fan, Gordon is one of the train characters. I NEVER wanted to do a character cake. I have made a train, plane and fire engine cake in the past but they never were expected to … Read more
This Thomas the Tank Engine cake took me 21 hours to make this for my son’s first birthday. I’m still surprised how well it turned out. Getting the frosting right was difficult. Everyone loved it especially my son. I wanted it to be perfect. I worked all week including the day before my son’s party. When … Read more
I just made this cake for my son’s 2 year old birthday party since he has become obsessed with all things trains and it was a great success. I think it’s something to be proud of when most of your guests take pictures of your cake on display. Here are the basic steps I took … 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
This is my 3rd attempt at a Thomas birthday cake. I’ve learnt that the bigger the cake, the better to design it. It gets more detail that way. I made it out of mudcake. The whole cake is from a slab of rectangular cake cut into 3 pieces, put on top of each other. Then … Read more
It was my nephew’s 5th birthday and I made a vanilla cake with homemade butter cream icing. Thomas the train was traced and filled with butter cream icing then I froze it for 24 hours and transferred to the cake. He loved his Thomas the Train Birthday Cake.
Thanks to all the mums and others on this web page who inspired me and gave me great ideas to make my Thomas and Percy Birthday Cake for my twin sons 4th birthday party. I made a square cake and cut it in half, one half I used for the base and one for the … Read more
I made this Thomas the Tank Engine Birthday Cake in January for my son’s 2nd birthday. He loves Thomas the Tank Engine. I used 2 13×9 cake pans to make the base of the cake. One went horizontally and the other vertically. I also used a round cake pan for the face. I carved the … Read more
We stayed up for hours making this Thomas the Train Cake. My husband did all the fondant, which is the base. The tracks are Kit-Kats. The wheels are Oreos. I baked each cake portion in loaf pans. My husband molded the fondant for the face. Thomas is hauling gummie bears in the last car. The … Read more
I started watching a cake decorating show on T.V. and fell in love with it, so when it came time for my grand-son Tyson’s fourth birthday, I wanted to try to do his cake. I had never made any homemade cakes, icings or anything. I went on-line and found this site. Without it, I would … Read more
My hobby is cake baking and decorating. A good friend of mine asked me to bake her son a birthday cake – he wanted Percy the Train. I began to research images of Percy on the Internet when I came across this site. I looked at many cakes and decided that I was going to … Read more