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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
This was a cake I made for my son. It was a 50/50 vanilla bean & chocolate devil sponge. Made the vanilla cake first and sandwiched it with a chocolate cake with a filling of fluffy white American frosting. Again mixing with an electric beater to add lots of air, sifting all the dry ingredient … Read more
My son just turned 3 this weekend and I never would have thought I could pull off this Homemade Thomas The Train Birthday Cake Design, but after two days, six cakes, six cans of frosting, and plenty of food coloring, it turned out so much better than I expected.
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
This Thomas the Train Cake took a lot of crafting. I made a loaf pan cake to start off Thomas then made several mini loaves to stack and create Thomas’s shape. He was covered in butter cream and fondant and I had a lot of trouble shaping the fondant to the irregular shape. I ended … Read more
Well I wanted to do a Thomas cake but could not find the Thomas Cake Pan. So I decided to design my own Homemade Thomas The Tank Engine 4th birthday cake with the help of my husband. Firstly, I used a rectangle cake pan and baked 2 cakes, using 2 pound cake mixes each. Next, … Read more
This was quite possibly the most disorganized train cake that I have ever made but it turned out great. It is Thomas the Tank Engine for my nephew Ethans 3rd birthday. For the engine I used the 3-D train cake pan and the rest were loaf pans cut to various sizes. The tank of the … Read more
Thanks to this website I was inspired to make this Thomas the tank engine cake for my sons 3rd birthday. I constructed Thomas from one cake mix baked in a large Campbell’s soup can and 2 loaf pans. I used one loaf as the base, used a skewer to attach the cylinder part on and … Read more
I made this Thomas the Tank Engine cake for a friends son’s birthday. To make Thomas I used a large baking pan (half-sheet) and a small round pan (6-inch). It’s iced with my buttercream frosting and decorated with a few Oreos and a couple of junior mints for the eyes. I think this was one … Read more
This Thomas cake is a half-sheet cake with Thomas the Tank character drawn on in icing. After the initial coat of white icing sets up a bit, I like to use food colors and a small paint brush to apply clouds and highlighting for the background. The key is to use a slightly wet brush … Read more
I made this train birthday cake for a 2 year-old boy I baby-sit for and he was very excited about it. It’s very easy to make. I used 3 mini loaf pans for the cars. The locomotive is made of one loaf to make the body and the cab (just make it shorter than the … Read more