This past Christmas, I received a William-Sonoma train cake pan. I was excited to receive it an wanted to use it, but knew that it would be too much work to just make it for myself. I waited for the perfect reason to use it. After waiting what seems like forever, I finally got a request for a train cake! Within a day, the second train cake request came in. The first cake was due today. I have another one due next weekend.
The first train cake that I was asked to do was for a baby shower today. I used a picture of the baby bedding to choose the colors for each of the train cars.
I started by mixing the cake mix for the train cars from scratch. It takes a little different cake mix to make this because it needs to be sturdy and able to hold the icing well. I followed the directions provided with the pan, and filled the pan to the top of the well. I would leave a little space next time, as the cake spread a little and ended up needing to be trimmed up after baking. I then trimmed the edges to separate the train cars and began to decorate them seperately.
I used the colors from the crib set in this cake. Colors included red, blue, green, yellow, orange and black. I decided to use some chocolate chips and some brown sugar in the cargo train cars. Below, you can see the car with the chocolate chips and the brown sugar. I thought that M & Ms would have been really cute as well, but my kiddos ate them before I was able to get them on the train!
I was almost finished and was in the home stretch. I decided to create a train track and trim the cake in plain white icing. I didn't want to take away from the train itself. I then sprinkled the top of the cake with opal sanding sugar for a little sparkle... and voila!
I was sooo excited with the finished project.
Can't wait to see what I can do with the train cake next weekend!
I think this is one pan that I can use over and over for an original look every time!
No comments:
Post a Comment