Thomas the Tank Engine Cake

by Grace
(Cape Town, South Africa)

definitely one super cute Thomas the Tank Engine Cake

To make this Thomas the Tank Engine Cake I baked two loaf cakes and two 10" round cakes. I also used a Canned Fruit tin that I emptied and washed out, this gives me the perfect shape for the boiler part of the engine.

I then used one loaf cake for the base of the cake and placed the round cake on it's side for the boiler. I cut the second loaf shape to make the engine room , by cutting a third off and tipping the longer side on it's end and attaching it to the back of the cake.

To make the roof of the engine room, I cut the remaining round cake in half and used the dome shape to make the roof.

I iced the chimneys before putting them onto the boilers and then iced the stripes and filled in the colors. I added the details with fondant, molding them as I needed to.

The face was cut from Grey fondant that I rolled flat and cut round eyes from. I cut into the fondant a little for the cheeks. To mold the mouth I mounted this last onto the cake with some buttercream.

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