I made this train cake for a co-worker’s son’s 2nd birthday. I wanted it to be a fun colorful cake that a 2 year old would like. Everything but the train engine, candles and trees were made of candy or icing. For the wheels I use coconut chocolate cookies. The letters are iced sugar cookies. I filled … Read more
The train cake is carrot cake with butter cream cream cheese frosting. The trains are fondant shaped and molder smaller pieces were made ahead and glued on with Vodka. We used luster dust to make the metal pieces shine. I used our dining room table to roll out the fondant for the tracks so they would have a natural wood … Read more
I made this cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. It was made from a Wilton cake pan in the shape of a train engine . The rest of the bogies were cut free hand from a template. The cake was boxed cake mix rich chocolate with eggs available in India. Totally used six single pan … Read more
My 6 year old LOVES trains. It was fitting that he have a train cake for his birthday. I used buttercream to cover this cake instead of fondant. For the wheels I used mini oreos, the steam spout was a mini icecream cone rolled in sprinkles and filled with white buttercream frosting. It was a hit with … Read more
My twin 6 year old boys LOVE trains! For the past few years they have requested train cakes. I was out of ideas and one day while waiting for a train I hopped out of the car and took a picture of the crossing with my phone. And that is where this railroad crossing gate … Read more
I baked a delicious and easy chocolate cake for this train cake and let it cool. I turned it out onto a cake board I made from a baking tray and silver paper. Then I made green vanilla butter cream and spread it onto the cake with a spatula and created a grassy effect with a serrated knife. … Read more
This Train Cake is for Rishika’s 5th birthday party on 2nd Jan 2011 in Mumbai, India. I made 6 cakes – 6 inches X 3 inches loaves (I have used normal sponge cake) – trim the edges of 5 cakes to make suitable sized train wagons and an engine (cylindrical shaped with a 2 cm rectangular … Read more
I made the train engine out of white cake mix, 2 of the cars with chocolate and 2 with strawberry. I used buttercreme icing on all. The logs in the 1st car are cookies, the coal in the second car is crushed Oreo cookies and the rocks are jelly bean rocks. I had more fun … Read more
I made this train cake for my little guy’s first birthday. It was a “piece of cake” to make! I started each section of the cake by using medium sized bread loaf pans for the mold. I made chocolate cake and white cake to give the guests a choice of flavor. The engine was the … Read more
I used a small loaf pan (makes 8 mini loaves) to make the cars, and for the locomotive put one of the loaves on its end and trimmed one to connect in front. I used graham crackers for the cowcatcher at the front and covered with frosting. Decoration for this train cake was with a … Read more
My twins boys are obsessed with trains so naturally I wanted to create an incredible cake for their 3rd birthday. I did a lot of research online and ended up incorporating many different ideas into my own creation of this Homemade Train Birthday Cake Design. The tracks are made with Keebler fudge bars with black … Read more
We had my son’s third birthday party recently. The whole birthday centered around a train theme and so I wanted a train cake as well. With all his food allergies I don’t have the luxury of getting it from any bakery. The last birthday we had two cakes, one for him and (a regular square … Read more