Being a third birthday cake, I hired a cake tin from my local cake supplies store for a very reasonable price. I also bought the store’s “utility” cake mixture to take the guess work out and ensure a good result. Otherwise, you could use a butter cake recipe. To ensure the cake slid easily from … Read more
This train cake is the first cake I have ever made and it was so much fun. It isn’t beautiful but everyone loved it. I used Supreme Moist chocolate and Supreme Moist golden butter cake mixes but I can’t remember the brand. I used 3 loaf pans and one empty sweet pea can. I made … Read more
I made this Train Birthday Cake Design by using a large chocolate Swiss roll for the bottom of the train carriage, and baking a normal round sponge which I cut to the desired shapes I needed for the top and the little round cake at the side. I made some chocolate butter icing to stick … Read more
I made this train cake for my son’s (who is a train FANATIC) 3rd birthday. The base is two 13×9 cakes laid side by side, the cars are each 1 mini loaf cake and the engine is a mini loaf on its end (held in place with toothpicks) with a cake I baked in a … Read more
I made this cake for my friends son birthday. I used the wafers biscuits for the railway track. I also piped a black track. For the engine, I used the tin for front roll to bake the cake and the other part I used the box cake mix and adjust the cake to that shape. … 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
My idea for this cake came from the abundance of train birthday cakes seen on this website. Twelve children were invited to the party, so I decided to make one train car for each one. I baked one cake recipe in four small bread pans and then divided them up. I bought a Wilton’s frosting … Read more
This train cake was made using the choo-choo train pan from Wiltons. I made it using pound cake so that it would stand up and do well with all the icing. In actuality there isnt a lot of icing on the cake – just size #16 – #18 stars over most of the cake. I … Read more
I got the idea for this train shape cake from this site (thanks!). I made this for my sons third birthday because he’s all about trains right now. It was a huge hit! I did the following the night before the party. I used two fun-fetti cake mixes and baked it in four mini-loaf pans … Read more
I made a dozer cake for my son’s school party and after a few people saw it, I got my first order. The hardest part was constructing the dozer and the sponge was crumbling because I prefer using a sponge cake for a good tasting cake. Everthing is edible on the cake, and the fondant … Read more
I made this fire engine cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used 2 loaf pans for the fire engine and cake that is holding the candle. I cut one of the loaf pan cakes in half. I put 1/2 of the cake on top of the other loaf pan and iced it red for … Read more
This John Deere cake was made for a family friend’s little boy who was turning 4. It was a half white, half chocolate cake baked in a 11” x 15” cake pan. It was iced smooth with white buttercream icing. I first traced the tractor (I got the outline off of the internet) and then … Read more