Thomas the Train Cakes

Thomas the train cakes are so popular today with little boys and girls that they are really fun to make for a birthday party. Creating Thomas the Train cakes is as challenging or as easy as you want them to be. Considering that Thomas the Train has almost 100 friends and helpers, choosing a child’s favorite helper or friend makes the occasion special. Below we'll give you some ideas for Thomas cakes, cupcakes and some easy decorating ideas.

Thomas the Train Birthday Cake Ideas

Creating the Shapes

You can construct trains easily using shaped cookie cutters to create the various parts of the engine. Round shapes become wheels, while you can cut the engineers room and engine part with a knife from the same sheet cake.

Edible Cake Decorations

Licorice whips provide the wheel struts and eyes can be fashioned from cut and decorated marshmallows or purchased ready to use. Many edible cake decorations are available, including eyes, complete faces and even eyes with glasses.

Edible cake images work well for an easy cake, too.

Sodor Island

With so many residents of Sodor Island, Thomas the Train cakes may include Hector the Coal hopper fashioned from a sheet cake with the lower edge trimmed off or Henrietta the Coach car with white icing windows and cut gummy window sills. Large sheet cakes decorated with flowers on the lower edges allows any area of the island to be depicted.

Using the Thomas the Train website images of the many towns and locations on Sodor Island gives you a wide variety from which to choose. Using small plastic bears and people, the helpers that reside on the island can be included. You can place small replicas of Thomas and his fellow engines, cars and cabooses can on icing rails creating a 3-D cake.

Decorating

Unfinished wooden train cars and engines allows party goers to decorate their own when they are used as cupcake toppers. Finishing these small trains prior to placing them on an iced sheet cake allows for personalization painting them in the colors of the child’s favorite Sodor Island resident.

Lollipop Wheels

Using lollipops, colored wheels and axles can be added to iced cake cubes that can be decorated as one of the resident engines or helpers. Remove four lollipops from their stick then secure the two of the round lollipops to one stick creating wheels with axles. Using two axles place the decorated engine on top adding eyes, mouth and piped icing to complete the character.

More Thomas the Train Cake Ideas

For a stand up Thomas the train birthday cake see these photos.

Find a basic coloring page of Thomas the tank or another character and blow it up if needed. Trace him on a 13x9 cake and decorate or paint the cake.

thomas cake

Photo courtesy of megpi

You can buy cake decorating kits with a Thomas theme.

A Wilton Train Pan makes it easier to make a decorated train cake.

Add a cake topper to cupcakes for a Thomas the train cupcake.

Thomas the Train Party

When planning a Thomas the Train party consider utilizing the free printable invitations that the invited guest or the party host can color. Stickers and other Thomas party items are available online and in most hobby and craft stores. Engineer hat cakes created with round cake pans might be just the thing for older partygoers, especially when combined with a craft project that allows guests to make their own engineer hats.

Imagination and creativity will provide many Thomas the Train cakes for birthdays, holidays and just for fun.

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