I made this First Try Dinosaur Theme Train Birthday Cake for my 4 yr old girl whose favorite show is Dinosaur Train and got my inspiration from this site and the how-to video by Betty Crocker. This whole cake was made from scratch, except for the candies and licorice and ice cream cone. The ‘island’ … Read more
My cake started out as a VERY high 12inch square orange cake. I then spent a lot of time looking at a picture of the train and carriages. After reshaping the cake into several sections I covered it with chocolate truffle mix then with coloured pettinice. The picture of the train driver is done on … Read more
Our son LOVES (really LOVES) trains. He especially likes the high speed ones from Japan , Europe etc. Thanks to the web, he can learn all about them and see all of these trains in action! So for his 3rd birthday a few months ago… We baked for him an edible train cake layout! It … Read more
These type of train cakes are quite easy to make. I used two boxed cake mixes baked in loaf pans. Make four cakes and use the fourth to cut up for the engine and cars. I used Oreo cookies for the wheels and frosted marshmallow for the smokestack. I used various candies to load the … Read more
My son had two birthday parties – one in school and the other at home with our friends. The birthday cake for the home celebration was a large Black Forest cake while the school celebration one was a chocolate cake covered with chocolate ganache. Both train birthday cakes I used the same train decoration which … Read more
The whole train birthday cake was edible. I used boxed cake mix and made butter cream frosting. I first made the track with icing tinted black and Kit Kat bars. I used mini loaf pans and a tomato paste can (the littler ones) to bake the 3D train parts and also baked a sheet cake … Read more
For my twins 2nd birthday I wanted each of them to have their own cake that they would be excited over and I wanted to make them myself. This made me very nervous worrying about getting two cakes done as well as all the other party details. My son is very into Thomas the Tank … Read more
This VW Van shaped birthday cake was for a friend who was celebrating her birthday at VW Bug rally. They wanted to surprise her with a copy of her new van. It was made with a 10 inch square cake cut in half and placed on top of each other. I painted the windows with … Read more
My idea for a Homemade 3D John Deere Tractor Cake started out with thinking that I would use a tractor loaf pan and then add a three dimension to the wheel on the back. However, the more I thought about it, the more I wanted it to stand up completely and really have a 3D … Read more
This is my first fire truck cake. I used the 12×18 sheet pan – I made 2 cakes (4 cake mixes). I cut each cake in half and filled it with buttercream. The bottom layer has dowels for supports and a cake cardboard is in the middle for extra support. Most of the decorations I … Read more
I made this Firetruck cake for my son’s fourth birthday. He loves firetrucks and wanted an actual firetruck cake. I got ideas from this website and all of the cakes were wonderful ideas. I started with a large loaf pan, probably a 17″ or 18″ long by 6″ wide. I used it twice; once with … Read more
With a little boy who loves bulldozers and me keen to try cake making, this seemed to be the best way to do my first decorated bulldozer cake. I made a cake in a 27cm long loaf tin that had pretty straight sides. I then cut the top 1/3 of the cake off and placed … Read more