My son always talks about the choo choo train ever since he got to ride a train for the first time. So it just seemed like the perfect idea to make a Train Cake Design for his 2nd birthday. At first, I was just going to do a flat train cake but then I found … Read more
Our 2 year old is obsessed with trains, bridges, tracks, trees and fish so my husband and I knew a train-scape cake was what we were going to make. I started out looking at train cakes online and then sketched out a plan without knowing if we could turn it into cake but it worked. … Read more
I made this First Birthday Train Cake for my son’s first birthday. It is made of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. The frosting was a little messy but worked well when refrigerated before frosting. I used gel color to die the frosting the various colors for the engine and cars, except the “animal car” … Read more
I started to make this Train Cake by baking individual square cupcakes (I found the square cupcake tin in a local supermarket). I then sandwiched two square cupcakes together with jam and butter cream to make the carriages tall. I iced all the carriages using royal ready to roll pre-coloured icing and stuck smarties and … Read more
For the engine, I used the Wilton, 2 piece 3D choo-choo pan. For the middle, “coal” car and the caboose, I used a regular, deep loaf pan. I cut just a bit off of the front of the caboose to make the top and back platform. To decorate: I used a star tip for most … 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
Using two box cake mixes I put the batter into mini loaf pans as well as a Pyrex set that had containers just perfect for the engine and caboose. I used butter cream frosting I bought at the local grocers bakery so the colors where nice and bright. The licorice track stayed put nicely after … Read more
Our son wanted a train cake for his third birthday. My husband and I brainstormed and came up with this idea. I baked four or five loaf shaped pound cakes, one for the animal car and the rest for the train. We leveled the layers and “glued” them together with frosting then my husband carved … Read more
This Homemade Vehicle Testing Ground Cake is 99.5% edible – pound cake covered in fondant – airbrushed grey to give the tarmac effect. The buildings were made from cereal treat and covered with fondant and airbrushed. Road markings were made with strips of fondant. The cars are toy cars, the only items not edible on … Read more
I made this Construction birthday cake for a four year old friend of mine. The base cake, which formed the construction site, was a yellow cake and the dump truck was a pound cake.
My son insisted on a fire truck cake for his 3rd birthday. I found some ideas here, then figured out how to do it myself. I used one box of chocolate cake mix (with one extra egg and a teaspoon of vanilla to make it taste more homemade) to bake two loaf cakes. I cut … Read more
This construction digger cake was requested by my daughter for her second birthday. My wife made two loaf-shaped, hot milk sponge cakes. One was cut in two for the ‘axels’ and the other rested across them for the ‘body’. The wheels were two large and two small ring doughnuts, coated in black icing. The two … Read more