Thomas the Tank Engine birthday cake - please help!

[fillybuster]

(Also posted in parties...)

Please help!! I foolishly asked my nearly 3 yr old ds what cake he'd like for his birhtday......and he said Thomas.

Can anyone help with how on earth I go about doing this? Is there a cake tin in the right shape out there? (Not in Lakeland or John Lewis...I've checked already!). Where on earth do I find that quantity of blue icing? [panic emoticon]

All help enormously appreciated...

Thanks!¬

[Fimbo]

Tesco sell Thomas cakes.

[sfxmum]

I did a square cake then made a landscape of sort on top plus some rails popped a toy Thomas on it and Harold on helipad fat controller etc tress etc bob is your uncle

dh did one for the 2nd birthday which was more elaborate but I am lazy

[jingleyjen]

I did a tray bake printed out this immage of Thomas in the right size.

Cut round the edges and used ready roll icing in the right colours to ice it.

[tutu100]

I decided in the end after figuring out how to make one and then working out the cost of all the things I would need to buy that it was much less hassle and not much more money to buy the £10 cake from sainsbury's.

I am normally a homemade cake person, but like you was scared of the amount of blue icing I'd have to make, although next year I'm gonig to try sfxmum's idea.

[sfxmum]

I am quite rubbish at it but pic on profile
2 years running on Thomas cake she loves it but this year there were also fairies about

[lucysmam]

mil made thomas train for lo's birthday this year, took ages and cost a fortune to make. it looked good but for all the effort it's only going to get eaten anyways! i think sfxmum has the right idea, keep it easy and make a track on top for thomas & any of the others

[fillybuster]

Thanks - I think that might be an excellent solution to my problems. I've definitely got to make (not buy) it, but I love the landscape/train track etc idea.

I was toying with just doing a round cake so that it was Thomas face-on (IYSWIM) but I'm still quite daunted by the blue icing issue....

Does that mean that there just isn't a train cake mold available? Lakeland seem to have a bunch of new molds, including a ship and tractor but sadly no trains...

(PS Sorry for the delay, had laptop/internet access issues for a few days).

[Legoleia]

cake tin

You can always whack it back on eBay when you've finished.

blue icing if you're worried!

hth!

[prettybird]

I made Thomas cakes for ds for 4 years in a row! Thomas for his 2nd birthday and thereafter the appropriate Number for his age.

Used to just make Nigella's buttermilk cake in a square tin and then cut it into chucnk and sandwich it together with jam to get the right shape before icing it.

depening on the colour I had to do, I used ready roll icing or buttermilk icing. The blue icing was most easily doen with buttermilk icing plus blue colouring. I then had on eof the "icing wirters" in black to pipe on the details (includign the face) and used ready roll white with a wee bit of black mixed in and cut into a circle for the face.

Used licorice catherine wheels for the bumpers, smarties for the bumpers you get the picture. The finishing touch was a wee bit of cotton wool for the team.

If I say so myself, they did look quite good - the big engines were more of a hassle as I had to to do the tender as well.

Don't have any pictures on my work pc - but you can see the dalek I now have to produce on my profile!

[Alli8]

Hi, just to let you ladies know there is a Thomas cake mould out there.

www.cakecraftshop.co.uk/tinsforhire/index.cgi?id=31

Here is the link - they will hire this one out and they are in the UK. I've used this store before and they are really good everytime.