For our son’s 3rd birthday, I knew that I wanted to make him a train cake to continue with our Thomas theme. However, being new to cake decorating I wasn’t ready to attempt to try to make Thomas himself. So, we made two train cars pulled by an actual Thomas toy. (We used the shake … Read more
I was asked to make my friend’s son’s birthday cake for the second year, and he is only 2! Hopefully this is a pattern! I was asked to do a Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends Cake for Kyle’s 2nd birthday. I usually would have gone to Wilton’s character pans but apparently THOMAS THE TANK … Read more
I used a Wilton pan and then put it on a sheet cake and decorated it with balloons. My son LOVES Thomas!!!!!
I used the Wilton 3-D cake pan for the engine and decorated it like Henry (my 3 yr. old had to have Henry, and ironically Henrys number is 3!). I got ideas off this website for the other cars too. I used a mini-loaf pan and two normal size loaf pans for the cars. The … Read more
For my sons 3rd birthday, I wanted to give him the world. I am due in a few weeks with his brother so I wanted it to be about him. Thomas the Train is the world to him, so I made him a Thomas birthday cake. This was quite a project. I wanted to be … Read more
My son loves Thomas and I decided to make him a Thomas the Tank cake for his second birthday. I found this site and looked at a lot of the other great cakes. Then I started looking for a train pan on e-bay and found a great kit. We made the cakes and iced with … Read more
I based this Thomas cake for my sons first birthday on a design in a Debbie Brown book I found at my local library. The cake was a chocolate sponge from a recipe in the book which was good for modeling but a little dry to eat! The pieces were layered and held together with … Read more
This cake was for my little boys first birthday. I got the idea for this cake from this website for Thomas the Tank cakes. I tried to get the Debbie Brown book that the design came from but couldn’t so I just copied a picture as best I could using tips I also got from … Read more
For this Cranky the Crane cake (from Thomas the Train…), you’ll need: *Three cake mixes (I used chocolate) *One square cake tin (20cm x 20cm) and two loaf tins (22cm x 11cm) *3 x white ready made – ready to roll icing *Black food colouring (find at cake or wedding shops *1 small magnet *Thomas … Read more
I used a Wilton train cake pan for my Thomas the Tank Birthday Cake. It wasn’t really easy, as I had to totally ignore the impressions from this generic train pan. I kept a Thomas picture on my computer, and just followed as best I could freehand.
I made this Thomas the Tank Engine Birthday Cake for a 2 yr old boy’s birthday party. I made Thomas’ face from fondant. I baked a 11 x 18 white cake with strawberry filling. I made a smaller white cake that I cut to size to fit Thomas’ face, so it would stick up on … Read more
My son is obsessed with Thomas, so for his 2nd birthday, we decided to attempt a homemade Thomas the Train birthday cake for him. I enlarged a Thomas coloring sheet & then did a trial run on a large sheet of paper. As suggested by another contributor, I traced the Thomas design onto parchment paper, … Read more