Sunday, April 17, 2011

Thomas the train Cake

I have offered pretty much every close friend of mine to make the cake for her/his kid's birthday. Some have taken the offer and some have refused it for their own reason. When they do take my offer, I have three questions for them. How many people does it need to feed, what should be the flavor of the cake and what is the theme?
They usually go with what their child likes the most. This time, I offered to make the cake for a friend's son's birthday. When I asked him what he wants, he said 'Car Cake'. I had made a car cake for him last year. You can see the details here.
When I told him that he had a car cake last year, why not choose another kind of cake, he said "But I like Cars." and left the room. His mother convinced him to go with 'Thomas the train cake' since he likes Thomas the train show.
So, when I decided on the design, I sort of combined both and let the boy have couple of trucks with a road on the cake too. A win win situation for all.
It is a two vanilla flavored 13 X 9 cakes put side by side, torted and filled with strawberry buttercream and frosted with buttercream. You can check out different frostings in this post.
Mountain is made out of rice crispy treat (homemade and vegan) and so are the ramps for the trucks. The Rail road crossing sign is foam sheet (I did not have the time to let fondant dry. Bad planning) and the white and red striped railroad gate (or bar whatever it is) is the lollipop stick painted with red color. Gravel on the railway track is Heathbar toffee bites and sand is brown sugar.
If anyone is interested in the details of how to make all the components of this cake, send me an email and I will try to explain it. All these pictures were taken in cloudy weather.
Have a great weekend.

24 comments:

  1. Simply a stunning work Champa!..Hats off to your patience and creativity in creating such an extraordinary piece of art!...Lucky Krish and wish him my wishes..

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  2. Birthday wishes to krish...
    Beautiful Cake...luks very nice...

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  3. Amazing work, Great patience. If I were in your place, I may not have let go of the cake at all!

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  4. Really nice of you to offer making the cake for someone's bday......very touching gesture!!! And the cake looks just awesome...Its indeed a piece of art!!

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  5. wowowo , its so beautiful .. U r simply gr8 :)

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  6. Wonderful cake, it has come out really really well..My train crazy son likes it too..:)

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  7. oh man! this needs loads of patience and creativity!!

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  8. Beautiful cake....Very creative and very well done!!

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  9. i just cud not stop gazing at your creativity.Hats off!! i had to comment and not be a silent reader.again how do u find time and energy to do all this?

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  10. You are very creative dear..stunning cake,thomas is my kids favorite too:)

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  11. A kind gesture to make such alovely cake.

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  12. Wonderful and lovely cake. Nice creativity. Did you make the trcuks using fondant?

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  13. Super kanri! Krish is such a lucky boy to have a creative mommy like you :) Belated wishes to him.

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  14. hey champa,
    great looking cake :) kudos to ur creativity.

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  15. Simply cake looks out of the world, loads of work,i adore ur patience and creativity...stunning cake..

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  16. Thanks everyone for leaving a comment.
    LG,
    Krish is my friend's son. Thanks for the wishes though.
    SouthIndiahome,
    No. Trains and the trucks are store bought toys. I am not that great in fondant modelling and I have seen that the cake looks horrible if you mess that up. SO I stick to simple modelling or buy the toys.

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  17. Love your intricacies Champa!! Well done..I am sure the kid and his freinds must have loved and enjoyed it.

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  18. Beautiful cake Champa!! Reminds me of the Thomas cake you kindly offered to make for Arha's 3rd birthday.

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  19. Shalini,
    Thanks and that is the reason this was easy to make for me. I changed it a bit but the technique was very similar.

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  20. whoa Champa, you have outdone yourself with this cake. My son would have loved you so much for making this cake. I wish you were closer :)

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  21. Champa that cake is so beautifully done.

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  22. Very very awesome. This is to me in creativity at its hieght. I often stop to look at your site, but this is the first time I feel compelled to leave a remark. Hats off to you

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  23. Great job Champa. The kid would have been so happy.

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