My 2-year-old son is a big fan of Thomas the Tank Engine. So the mission was to create a Thomas birthday cake for his birthday. I got some guide and tips from a cake book by Debbie Brown that shows steps by steps how to make the Thomas birthday cake. I added additional items to … Read more
My son wanted a Thomas the Tank cake for this third birthday. I used store bought cake mixes and frosting with Wilton’s Coloring. Thomas Tank is created by cutting up two loafs of pound cake in various geometric pieces (i.e. square, rectangle etc.)and then glued with frosting. His face was printed in color mounted on … Read more
My son loves Thomas the train so I decided to make him a Thomas cake for his birthday. I wasn’t sure about the cake since this was my first cake ever so I got some ideas and came up with this. I used a 1/2 sheet cake for the body and a round cake for … Read more
I used four loaf pans for the Thomas the tank cakes. The last two trimmed to square and the tank engine was formed using an electric knife (a great cake carving tool) and held together with skewers. You will need to use a pound cake recipe or the cake will fall apart when building. The … Read more
My son Theo loves trains in general and Thomas the tank engine in particular. So I decided to prepare a Thomas the tank engine cake for his 4th birthday. This train cake is a plain butter cake with chocolate chunks that I made for the engine and carriage. I tried to incorporate ideas of train … Read more
Chugga! Chugga! Choo! Choo! All aboard for some of the coolest train cake ideas to pull into our cake decorating station. If you know someone who has a fascination with trains and railroads, you’re going to be stoked by these train themed cakes. Making one of them for a train lover could very well be … Read more
Here is a train birthday cake using the Wilton 3D cake pan as the engine car and three loaf pans as the other cars. I put a cupcake on top of the caboose. It was very easy to do. Just ice the train birthday cake and add candy and Voila! Cool Black Train Birthday Cake … Read more
My son loves trains so I decided to make a train cake for his third birthday. I took some ideas from this site and added my own. I used mini loaf pans for the cars and then iced them. Each car had a different theme and was decorated with different candies. The wheels are mini … Read more
I made this train birthday cake for my nephew’s 5th birthday. I baked my cakes in loaf pans and cut off one of the cakes, placed it on top of the other to make a locomotive. I decorated my cake with fresh whipped cream and used fruits on the wagon trains. It was a hit … Read more
I first want to thank you for having such a helpful website. I used this site and several of the recipes for ideas for train birthday cakes. I made this for my son’s 2nd birthday party. I would definitely recommend using the frozen pound cakes for the engine and cars. I used a total of … Read more
For my son’s first birthday we made a train shape cake. We actually used the large roasting dish as we didn’t have a big cake tin. After the cake was cooked and cooled we cut it into the four squares for the trailers. For the engine we actually cut another square for the base then … Read more
The mother of a little boy named Ethan asked me to make a cake for her son’s 3rd birthday. She just asked for 3 items which she wanted to feature on the cake, the rest was up to me. The 3 items were these:- Thomas the tank engine, a windmill and a river. First of … Read more