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
This is my homemade Thomas the Train Mountain cake. I used two box mixes and three pans: one large round, one medium round and one small round. I also used half of a ball pan set. I inserted three skewers to hold all of the layers together and cut off the tips so that you … Read more
I followed a tutorial on the internet for building the Thomas The Tank Engine Birthday Cake but iced it in my own style. It took about 5 hours to decorate, not including the baking process but it was worth it! I got a lot of compliments and my 3 year old LOVED it!
I made this Thomas birthday cake using two box cake mixes. I baked two cakes: one in a standard loaf pan, the other in an 11 X 7 Pyrex baking dish. I then cut the finished cakes to various sizes to build the carcass of the cake. I kept a standard Thomas train close by … Read more
I used loaf pans and cut the cakes to shape the train, it was very easy. I used white chocolate for the wheels and face.
When my son Caleb turned three years old, he requested a Thomas the Tank Engine birthday party. After looking at all of the Thomas cakes on this site, I decided not to try a 3-D train cake this year and instead went with the sheet cake version. I knew that my decorating time would be … Read more
This Thomas the Train Scene Cake was done for a friend of my husband who wanted a Thomas cake with a keepsake on it. I started this cake with a 10″ Madeira cake, filled with Buttercream and covered with white ready to roll fondant, also covering the cake board. I then used a new bathroom … Read more
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