My son is slightly obsessed with Thomas the train. So I made this cake for his third birthday party. I wrapped Thomas wrapping paper around cardboard for the bottom pieces. I also wrapped a small piece of cardboard for the “roof” of one of the cars and held it up with some frosting and suckers. … Read more
This train cake was made using a train pan from Williams Sonoma. I made the vanilla cake recipe that was included with the pan. Decided this wasnt a good idea as the cake was too moist though absolutely delicious. This cake required a stronger recipe to hold up to a lot of decoration including the … Read more
We made this train shape cake for our sons first birthday. We got the idea for this train cake from this website. We used the Wilton 3D Choo Choo Train cake pan to make the train and two regular loaf pans for the train cars. We used coconut for the grass, Kit Kats for the … Read more
This harvester birthday cake was made of black chocolate (motor), white chocolate (cab) and a roll with caramel spread (the platform I believe this is the word to define this). Then I covered all the cake with different colors of chocolate and vanilla fondant. My little grandson, my family and the guests said: Uouuuu, WONDERFUL!!
This army tank cake was our son’s 4th birthday as he wanted an army themed party. My husband baked 3 cakes and then layered and carved them with a knife and dental floss. Then he used Oreos for the wheels and tootsie rolls for the tires around the Oreos. He softened up tootsie rolls in … Read more
This tank cake was fairly simple to make. I took a 13×9 pan and made the bottom half that was chocolate devils food cake mix and the top of the tank was a loaf pan made with classic yellow cake mix. I stacked the loaf pan cake on top of the 13×9 pan cake after … Read more
After researching a great construction vehicle cake for my twins’ 3rd birthday, I found the perfect example of a Excavator Birthday Cake I was looking for on funfamily.com. I baked a pound cake instead of buying a pre-made one like it suggested, cut off one end and placed on top for the cab. The entire … Read more
I made this Army Tank Birthday Cake using a 9×13 pan and a loaf pan. I used vanilla and chocolate cake mix and colored half of the vanilla green with food coloring. I then spooned the cake batter in the pans, alternating the colors. This made the inside look like camouflage. I used chocolate Oreos … Read more
I made this tank birthday cake for my friend’s 9 year old son’s birthday. I used a 9×13 cake pan for the base and a 9″ pie pan for the top. I cut the notches out of both ends and measured the top to make the circle fit properly on top. I used some of … Read more
My husband and I found the design on the internet as my son wanted a firetruck for his 4th birthday. We used chocolate cake – 8 to be exact. There was a little wastage after we cut the shape out… we then spread with Nutella to hold the icing on. I kneaded a little white … Read more
This Firetruck Retirement Cake was actually made for a Captain who was retiring from the work force. His lovely wife asked for a carrot cake because that was his favorite cake! The base was made and iced with cream cheese frosting. Once is set up the fondant was added and refrigerated. The truck was constructed … Read more
Inspired by other cakes I saw online, I went with a GI Joe Tank 7th Birthday Cake! For the cake itself I used a standard cake pan for the base, for the upper deck I filled a loaf pan with cake mix. I also baked a few cupcakes and cut the top off of one … Read more