Make a Train Birthday Cake for a Toddler

Most toddlers love trains.

Trains are one of the most beloved toys to a child. The look of the steam and the sound of the horn is magic, not to mention that they seem to fly as they glide over their tracks. Children love them, and creating a train-themed party will bring everlasting memories for a child. When creating a train-themed party, decorations are important, but the cake is the centerpiece.

Things You'll Need

• Any flavor baked sheet cake
• Toy train
• Vanilla icing
• Sugar cookies
• Green icing
• Any color tubed icing
• Licorice strings
• Green sugar
• Tube of black icing (optional)

Instructions

1. Cover the cooled cake in vanilla icing. This is the land that the train is riding over.

2. Cover the cookies with green icing. These will serve as your trees.

3. Place the licorice strings on the cake to form train tracks; it doesn't matter where you start. You can start in the middle or the very top of the cake; just make sure you start and stop at the bottom edges. Use your toy train as a guide for how wide the track will be. Cut the remaining licorice in smaller strips and place them in the middle of the outside tracks. These should be spaced an inch apart from each other.

4. Write out "Happy Birthday" with the tubed icing to the side of the train tracks. You can personalize it by adding the recipient's name.

5. Cover the icing around the tracks with the green sugar to resemble grass. Sprinkle it anywhere you would like.

6. Stick the tree cookies in the cake so they appear to be standing on their edge. Place them anywhere you wish. Put them in two's in order to fully create the "tree" effect.

Tips & Warnings

• You can make this cake as big or as small as you would like. There are no correct dimensions.

• You can find green icing and sugar where you find cake mix at the grocery store.

• If you cannot find licorice, make train tracks out of black icing.

References

• Kaboose Recipes: Tank Engine Cake