This Camper Van cake was made of two loaf pans stacked and trimmed to shape with an electric knife. The fondant was tricky trying to get it all smooth. Took a while. But once the fondant is applied, it all comes together with the little details. I made the tires out of tootsie rolls. I … Read more
My Brother in law drives a snow plow near Buffalo, NY and my nephew LOVES them! I just took a picture that my sister had, traced the basic shapes with a toothpick in the crumb coating and then decorated until it came out looking like the picture. I added snowmen on the side for fun … Read more
Our son Matthew LOVES semi trucks. I started this Homemade Semi Truck Birthday Cake Design by making a double recipe of chocolate cake & filled three loaf pans. Line the bottoms with parchment paper and use bakers spray on the sides, they popped out of the pans no problem! I stored them in the fridge … Read more
I made the train engine out of white cake mix, 2 of the cars with chocolate and 2 with strawberry. I used buttercreme icing on all. The logs in the 1st car are cookies, the coal in the second car is crushed Oreo cookies and the rocks are jelly bean rocks. I had more fun … Read more
I made this train cake for my little guy’s first birthday. It was a “piece of cake” to make! I started each section of the cake by using medium sized bread loaf pans for the mold. I made chocolate cake and white cake to give the guests a choice of flavor. The engine was the … Read more
I used a small loaf pan (makes 8 mini loaves) to make the cars, and for the locomotive put one of the loaves on its end and trimmed one to connect in front. I used graham crackers for the cowcatcher at the front and covered with frosting. Decoration for this train cake was with a … Read more
My twins boys are obsessed with trains so naturally I wanted to create an incredible cake for their 3rd birthday. I did a lot of research online and ended up incorporating many different ideas into my own creation of this Homemade Train Birthday Cake Design. The tracks are made with Keebler fudge bars with black … Read more
We had my son’s third birthday party recently. The whole birthday centered around a train theme and so I wanted a train cake as well. With all his food allergies I don’t have the luxury of getting it from any bakery. The last birthday we had two cakes, one for him and (a regular square … Read more
For all of my daughter’s cakes since birth she has chosen Winnie the Pooh, her favorite, but for her 3rd she said she wanted something a little different. She wanted to combine her love of choo choo trains with her love of Pooh, and so we chose to make her a Winnie the Pooh Choo … Read more
This Homemade Train Cake was so much work, but well worth it! I baked several cakes (different flavors) in bread loaf pans. Once they were completely cooled, we transformed each “loaf” into a train car. I used Wilton’s 3D pan for the engine, but the rest of the cars were made from loaf pans. This … Read more
I didnt have a cake pan to make a 3D train birthday cake, so I had to just cut and trim by hand. I ended up with having a main train and then three train cars after it. The first one carried different colored animal cookies. The rails are made of chocolate wafer roll and … Read more
My son loves trains so we decided to make him a train cake for his third birthday. For the engine we used a Wilton train 3d cake pan. I couldnt get it to bake 3d so I baked the halves separately and put them together with toothpicks. For the middle and the caboose I used … Read more