Valentine Love Train Cake

For Valentine's Day this year my friend and I made a cake shaped like a train! This would also work beautifully for a Christmas train, or any other occasion where a sugar covered, edible miniature train was the appropriate thing to make.

We used the Williams-Sonoma "Railway Cake Pan" to build the cake itself, and a variety of candy to do the decorating.

Step 1 Mix the Cake

Ideally you'd do this twelve to twenty-four hours BEFORE you want to decorate the cake.

I used the Williams-Sonoma Railway pan to make this.

Grease the pan like there's no tomorrow. I mean it!

Mix the batter according to the instructions in the "Vanilla Train Cake" recipe.

Fill up the cups in the pan, ONLY THREE QUARTERS OF THE WAY FULL. Don't fill up the pan all the way to the top or you will have a massive mess to clean up later (I learned the hard way!).

After you have filled the cups use a spoon (or whatever) to push the batter up the sides of the cups. If you don't do this, when the cakes rise they will mush themselves into a weird shape and your train will not have any place to put the wheels. (I learned this the hard way too.) Make sure you do a good job with the engine.

Comments

[slushy200]

This is awesome!!!! i love the rock candy...

[alexgeorge1998]

Thats soo cool i never seen that kind of cake before!!!

[fleabird29]

This is the best cake ever!!! You are a baking goddess!!

[scoochmaroo]

So cute! The rock candy smoke is pure genius.

[MrL33TPenguin]

it is like the most awesomest cake that I've ever seen.. Good job