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
I got the basic idea for this train cake from your fantastic site but made a few adjustments. My little boys third birthday clashed with other work commitments so I needed to be able to throw something together in 15mins, which I did. As you can see its made from mini cake rolls (Cadbury’s), the … Read more
I viewed what seems like hundreds of the “coolest train cakes” on this site and pooled together the features I felt were neat and ‘do-able’ for me to make my own Homemade Choo-Choo Train Cake! Base: I started by cutting a “pond” from a Tommy sheet cake and frosted in green. “Grass” is piped around … Read more
This train birthday cake was quite easy to make. I just used cheap packet sponge cake mix. I cooked the main carriage with a large loaf tin and the carriages with disposable aluminum loaf tins (the ones you get take away food in). I used 2 of these and cut them in half to make … Read more
This was for my son’s second birthday party. I try not to have TV character tie-ins, though the cake ended up the right colour for Thomas. The homemade zoo train birthday cake was made from 2 x 20cm square Madeira cakes. I trimmed 5cm from each cake to make the train and carriages and sugarpasted … Read more
My best friend’s son wanted a train birthday cake and it was super last minute. So I whipped up a 1/4 chocolate sheet cake and frosted it with buttercream. I grabbed some trains from my local cake supply shop. I sprayed the sky blue with Wilton’s edible blue food color spray and I sprayed the … Read more