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How do I make a train birthday cake?

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Lovelove · 24/04/2008 21:59

Any ideas/links? First birthday coming up and I wanted to make a train cake for DS. Not averse to a bit of a challenge but I'm not very skilled at this sort of thing....

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sleepycat · 24/04/2008 22:02

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bungalowbelle · 24/04/2008 22:02

Swiss roll for the body bit. For wheels you can use licorish or some sort of small biscuit (which will go soft but never mind).

Make sponge in loaf tins or a square tin and just cut the shapes for the carriages.

Chocolate fingers for train track perhaps.

EvilNestleCEO · 24/04/2008 22:04

Smarties for lights
Shreddies for train tracks
Nescafe for gravel.....

hockeypuck · 24/04/2008 22:06

photo on my profile page for one I made DS last year.

I used ready made swiss rolls and madeira cakes which I iced and decorated myself. I can make cakes obviously, but shop bought ones are much firmer and easier to play around with!

wannaBe · 24/04/2008 22:08

make it in

this

hockeypuck · 24/04/2008 22:08

Oh poo - sorry just realised that the train one isn't on there and I'm on the wrong computer to put it on. I'll put it on tomorrow if you like. I looked at a couple of different pics of train cakes in books before making it so I could pick and choose the ideas I liked. E.G - it HAD to be chocolate!!!

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Lovelove · 24/04/2008 22:14

Thanks some helpful ideas there. Don't know why I'm putting so much thought into this when its just going to be gummed to death and chucked on the floor!

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Tommy · 24/04/2008 22:14

I have a great one which is just swiss rolls cut up and stuck together in the shape of a train with buttercream. MIni rolls for funnels and chocolate fingers for tracks - very easy but looks really good

thehairybabysmum · 24/04/2008 22:15

I did one for ds, sponge roll for boiler then i used angel cake (bought)....i split the 3 layers and used bottom layer as a base for the boiler then built a cab and tender with the rest...mini rolls for the wheel axles then stuck a mini jaffa cake to the ends of each mni roll, i drew spokes on these with a black icing pen.

I ten iced the whole thing with coloured butter icing and used the icing pens to draw in details.

it was sat on a board so i used fudge fingers to make train tracks at each end and the best bit used white marshmallows stuck onto a cocktail stick as puffs of smoke coming out o the chimney (half a mini roll).

i probaby have a picture i can find if you think it will help.

JackieNo · 24/04/2008 22:16

How about this?

JackieNo · 24/04/2008 22:17

And if you get the Lakeland thingy, they do recommend you use this with it.

thehairybabysmum · 24/04/2008 22:51

ive managed to add a piccy of mine to my profile page...not sure how to do a link to it sorry.

saw th lakeland thing this week...it does look good but have to say i did say to ds1 that clearly it wouldnt produce a masterpiece such as he had !!

hockeypuck · 25/04/2008 08:14

Love the cake hairybabysmum. I hadn't thought of putting it on tracks like that it works well.

I've put the photo of DS's train cake on my profile page now, at the bottom.

I used 3 madeira cakes (Value ones - only about 50p each) and a chocolate swiss roll.

The back of the engine block - I hollowed it out a little and put in black gummy sweets to look like coal. I was just going to put sweets in there to make it look like another treasure haul, but then I realised that the black gummy things looked like coal. I did the same for the carraige at the back and filled it with smarties. I used silver balls to give the lines a little bit of definition and mini jaffa cakes for the wheels and the front of the engine which I iced with a number 1.

Because I bought the cakes, it only took an hour or so to ice and put together.

Those train moulds from Lakeland look absolutely awesome though!

littlelapin · 25/04/2008 08:22

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Tommy · 25/04/2008 08:26

lol littlelapin - we discussed getting one between all of us at toddler group! Nice though - we have the gingerbread people moulds whih are great too

Oblomov · 25/04/2008 08:30

Hockeypuck yours is FAB. I love it.

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MrsBadger · 25/04/2008 09:17

this is my favourite train cake method

mostly because it's made entirely from bought swiss rolls and mini rolls...

hockeypuck · 25/04/2008 11:34

MrsBadger - that one looks awesome.

I should SO have made more efforts on the appearance of the surroundings of mine - trees, rails, people, flowers etc. but by the time I've done the cake etc I'm out of enthusiasm! and on to the practicalities of other party food!

The house cake I also made out of Value Maderia cakes. The only one of those that I actually made from scratch was the castle one, which is made from a tin and then piped with butter icing to within an inch of it's life!! I got the cute little flower cutters on line, they are like little hole punches with plungers, very cute. I could make hundreds of those little flowers all day long. Hmmmn, think I'll have to get her to have another castle this year before she gets too old for it all and want Bratz

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