Little Nevin loves two things really well…..trains and the color green. So we had to go with both of these for our Train Birthday Cake Design. I always begin with a base of a yellow sheetcake or whatever flavor they like and ice it accordingly. The core of the cake is a vanilla loaf cake … Read more
This was my son’s second birthday cake. I started by making mini cakes (I found a pan that had 8 separate molds that were somewhere around 2″X4″). I made a lot, more than I actually needed, I think about 16 or 18. I also made the icing from a recipe in one of my cookbooks. … Read more
This Train Birthday Cake was for my frien’s little boy’s 2nd birthday. She said she didn’t care what kind of cake but she needed one. So I offered to make it. My mom has had these cake pans since I was a little girl and has now passed them on to me. It’s a pan … Read more
For my daughter’s 1st birthday we decided to make a carrot cake inspired by her favorite toy at the time, a Choo Choo Cake. We wanted to make it as a baby friendly as possible! I started off by making a carrot cake in a square pan and used the additional batter to make little … Read more
My kids love Thomas the train engine and after seeing the train cakes on this website I was encouraged to try. For the prototype I made an Engine and two carriages using pound cake with butter cream icing, spending half a day. The next day we tasted the cake and found that the butter icing … Read more
This train birthday cake was so much fun to create, although it took a long time! I just used store-bought chocolate cake mix and baked it in mini-loaf pans. The train cars are the loaf-pan upside-down, so they would be flat on top, and I sliced a little off the rounded part so they would … Read more
I made this train birthday cake for my sons 2nd birthday. I got the idea from looking at this website along with some other ideas I had seen. The cake is three Sara Lee frozen pound cakes, cut to shape and the icing is store bought that I colored. My favorite part is the smoke … Read more
I made this train cake for a friends little girl who is crazy about trains. I purchased the train mold pan from Williams Sonoma. The type of cake I baked was a pound cake. I used the same recipe from a book called Whimsical Bake house. Everything was edible except for the plastic animals. The … Read more
First and foremost the cake it self is a traditional chocolate sponge. Firstly I made three oblong shaped sponges, once cooled each cake was place don top of each other with a filling of chocolate butter cream. Using a photograph as visual aid I then shaped the bodywork of the van, made three four wheels … Read more
I found an image online of a Fireman Sam and Jupiter Cake and used ideas to copy from. It’s always best to copy from a perfect cake then you get the best results! I made a large square Madeira cake then cut up the pieces to resemble the fire engine shape, then layered them together … Read more
My 6 year old son, Brandon, wanted to have an Army party. Originally, I was going to make a 9×13 inch cake with chocolate icing and simply sit army figures and small tanks all over it. The night before the party, I just happened to come across this website and decided that Brandon needed a … Read more
My 8 year old wanted an “Army Man” party &, after watching Ace of Cakes, he thought it would be cool to have a tank cake. To start with I told him that Mom couldn’t do that. But, seeing how I love a good challenge, I started considering “why not?” So, my husband and I … Read more