Coolest Thomas The Train Birthday Cake Design

My son Owen was turning 6, Owen is Autistic but he just loves Thomas the Tank engine. Given the cost of shop bought cakes I thought I would have a go at making my own Thomas The Train Birthday Cake Design for Owen.

I had tremendous fun making it, it was very messy and with the jam, buttercream and icing it was also very sticky. I made 3 rectangular shaped cakes and sandwiched them together with jam and butter cream and layered them on top of one another then using one of Owens toy Thomas trains sitting nearby I cut the cake into a rough shape of Thomas. Then I used white ready made icing blocks and coloured them using food colourings, softening and colouring using my hands (bit like you would with playdough/plastercine) rolled out the icing and placed the appropriate colours to the appropriate section of the train.

I used icing pens for the finer detail and mixed up some green icing, rolled it out very thinly and covered a cake board, marked out traintracks on the green icing (again using an icing pen) and also used the pen to write a message.

It was by no means a perfect looking cake, but it was a first attempt at doing a cake remotely like this, Owen recognized who it was supposed to be and it tasted delicious.


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