Children'S Birthday Cakes Recipes Train

Of all the amazing kids’ party food, nothing beats a classic birthday cake. Chug down memory lane with this choo-choo train, straight from the cover of our Birthday Cake Book.

After all, who doesn’t have at least one memory of poring over the well-thumbed pages, trying to decide on this year’s birthday cake?

Whether you remember pestering Mum to pleeeease make you the jelly swimming pool cake for your birthday or have fond memories of decorating these birthday favourites with your kids, these timeless classics are sure to give you a nostalgia hit.

Train Cake Recipe

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1.Make cake batter according to directions on packet, divide mixture evenly between four greased 25cm x 8cm (10 inch x 3 inch) bar tins. Bake in moderate oven, 30 minutes, or until cooked when tested. Turn cakes on to wire rack to cool.

2.When cooled, cut bar cakes in half vertically to give eight equal pieces. Reserve five of these to make tops of the four carriages and back of engine.

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3.Cut remaining three pieces in half horizontally to give six equal pieces, five of which form the bases of the engine and four carriages.

5.Cut a 4cm (1 ½ inch) wide slice from sponge roll, hold slice upright and cut out smoke stack shape with a 2.5cm (1 inch) plain cutter. Use the rest of the sponge roll for engine. Assemble cake, as shown, on prepared board.

6.Make Vienna cream: Beat butter until white and creamy. Slowly add half icing sugar, beating constantly. Continue beating and slowly add in milk, then remaining icing sugar. Mixture should be smooth and easy to spread with a spatula.

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7.Divide Vienna cream into five equal portions, tint each portion with different food colouring. Cover tops and sides of engine and carriages each with different-coloured Vienna cream.

8.Join carriages with pairs of jube rings. To do so split one ring, push the other ring through it, press on to Vienna cream.

10.Cover top and sides of smoke stack with red Vienna cream, coat with chocolate sprinkles, position, as shown. With a skewer, make holes through five pieces of popcorn, thread on to pipe cleaner, insert into smokestack.

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11.Place whole ice-block sticks across front, back and between carriages, as shown, to represent sleepers. To make other sleepers, break ice-block sticks into 4cm (1½ inch) lengths, slide them underneath edges of cake on both sides. Double strips of licorice on either side of train represent tracks.

13.Cut a 4cm x 1cm (1½ inch x ½ inch) strip from wafer, press strip firmly on to bottom front of engine. Arrange pieces of 2.5cm (1 inch) licorice against wafer, as shown, to represent “cow catcher”.

7.Divide Vienna cream into five equal portions, tint each portion with different food colouring. Cover tops and sides of engine and carriages each with different-coloured Vienna cream.

8.Join carriages with pairs of jube rings. To do so split one ring, push the other ring through it, press on to Vienna cream.

10.Cover top and sides of smoke stack with red Vienna cream, coat with chocolate sprinkles, position, as shown. With a skewer, make holes through five pieces of popcorn, thread on to pipe cleaner, insert into smokestack.

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11.Place whole ice-block sticks across front, back and between carriages, as shown, to represent sleepers. To make other sleepers, break ice-block sticks into 4cm (1½ inch) lengths, slide them underneath edges of cake on both sides. Double strips of licorice on either side of train represent tracks.

13.Cut a 4cm x 1cm (1½ inch x ½ inch) strip from wafer, press strip firmly on to bottom front of engine. Arrange pieces of 2.5cm (1 inch) licorice against wafer, as shown, to represent “cow catcher”.