Train Cake w/Fondant

This is my second attempt at making a cake using fondant.

Train Cake using Fondant

I am starting to really like it, however I still struggle with rolling it out to cover the cake – I can’t seem to make it even and round.  I also almost always have rolled it too thin (due to a fear of not having enough for the rest of the cake design).

I made this cake for Little A – who just turned 3.  He is fascinated with trains at the moment so when I was getting his party plans together – I knew I had to find a simple design for a train cake.

I was pressed for time, so I used a devils food cake mix for the base and made some chocolate butter cream frosting.

I first cut out the mountains and then the trees and clouds.

For the trees I used a large flower cookie cutter and for the clouds I used a medium flower cookie cutter and pulled it sideways so they looked more like clouds.

Then I created the train tracks using the black fondant – which came out a little gray.

Then I created each train and added tiny wheels and lights.

I used the leftover red fondant to create some flowers & fruit in the trees.

I printed out some railroad signs and stuck them to toothpicks with some glue.

The clouds and trees covered most of my mistakes that I made due to rolling the fondant a little to thin.  No one noticed!

Best of all, my son absolutely loved his train cake!

I also made some mini whoopie pies and some sugar cookies to match the train party theme.

Chocolate Whoopie Pies with chocolate genache frosting & Train Sugar Cookies

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