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I used a Madeira cake recipe and hired all three tins from local cake shop for this Thomas The Train Birthday Cake. I used a recipe for royal icing and made different food colouring to colour batches and stored in air tight containers. I used a pallette knife to spread grey on the top of … Read more
I baked 2 cakes and put them together to build the little hill for this Thomas Birthday Cake. I also made some cupcakes to go with it. I used fondant to cover the whole cake and sprayed some green food colouring on it. I used brown fondant for the rail and the entrance of the … Read more
Our son, Isaiah, has been going through a train phase for the past little while and so I decided to make him a train cake for his 3rd birthday. I started off baking 3 round cakes (different sizes) by using spring-form pans. I froze them for a few days until it was time to decorate … 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
I made this Thomas the Train cake for my nephew who was turning 5. I printed pictures from the internet, as well as used my nephew’s toy, for my model. I got ideas from different sites to put together the final creation. The Face: I would suggest that you make the face first several days … Read more
This is the train I made for a co-worker’s son’s 2nd birthday. For the face I used rolled fondant. I used small balls of fondant under his nose and cheeks. The face came from another website that had a great step by step on how to do the face-Unfortunately I can’t remember the URL but … Read more
I made this James cake (from Thomas the Tank Engine) for my sons 7th birthday. He has always loved Thomas and since his middle name is James (and I had made him a Thomas the train cake for a previous birthday), we settled on James. This was a very time consuming cake! But the end … Read more
I made this Thomas birthday cake for a friend whos little boy is Thomas mad. The train is made completely from solid pieces of fondant icing coloured blue, the details painted on with diluted food colouring afterwards. The wheels were made by imprinting the real Thomas’s wheels into the fondant (with a good wash and … Read more
This Thomas the Tank Engine cake was made for an obsessive two year old! This was cut out of a few rectangular Madeira cakes, which were frozen to make them easier to cut into shapes! Plenty of blue fondant and piped to look like Edward from Thomas the tank engine number 2 of course!
My son wanted a Thomas cake for his fifth birthday. He also decided he wanted his new train set to go on the cake but that wasnt enough, he wanted it to move on the tracks. The smallest track circle that I could make using our Thomas track was 18″ across. I purchased the biggest … Read more
My son Dillon loves trains so it was no surprise when he picked a train birthday cake for his third birthday. I looked through this site and got some great ideas. I was going to build the engine but my husband had already picked up the Wilton 3D pan. I loved it. It was easy … 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