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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
This Thomas the Train Birthday Cake was a fun cake to make, and really not too hard. The cake was a dense chocolate, so it held up really well to stacking. I didn’t use dowels, just frosted each tier and stacked them. I used all buttercream except for the tree trunks, railroad tracks, and fence. … Read more
I made this Thomas birthday cake for my friend son’s birthday who was turning 3 this February. The only request the birthday boy made was that he wanted Thomas coming out of tunnel. I reviewed various options and then decided on using rice crispies for the tunnel and mountains. I baked 2 9×13″ chocolate cakes … Read more
I used 2 Twinkies for this Thomas the Train cake, one for the train and one for the car. I covered it up with fondant and painted it with blue icing dye (but used enough blue ink to look black), piped out the bumpers and wheel rods with melted white chocolate; wrote out “#1” with … Read more
I was excited to make a Thomas cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I got so many great ideas from this site, but didn’t think I was ready to try a 3-D cake. So I just baked a 9 x 13 cake and decorated the top. I used a coloring page for a template, traced … Read more
I made this cake for my sons fourth birthday. He LOVES Thomas. To make these types of train cakes use a 3D train cake pan with chocolate cake. I then decorated it by using my son’s Thomas train as a model. It was a lot of fun and my son and his friends loved it!s … Read more
My son wanted a Thomas birthday cake. I love to be creative and this was the outcome. I was very proud. I used a loaf pan, a 13×9 pan, and a soup can; then pieced them together. The bottom was of course the 13×9 with about 1-inch cut off all around. The loaf cake was … Read more
This Thomas the Tank Engine cake was for my nephew’s 3rd birthday party. I got the idea for this cake from other photos from this website. I used the Wiltons Choo-Choo train cake mold for Thomas and a sheet cake for the other train carts. I cut them all to the desired shapes. I found … Read more
This is my Thomas cake made for my sons two year party. I pretty much got my ideas from this website. Thank you to everyone who contributed (especially the one I used the most!) Thomas is made from the Wilton 3d pan and is pound cake I made from scratch (make sure you use a … Read more
For my son Ryans 1st birthday, we went with the train theme. This train birthday cake was inspired by several others on this website. I used loaf pans to make the train cars. I cut one loaf up to make the caboose, and another to make the engine. The round part of the engine is … 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