Train themed baby shower cake

by Gina Torrisi
(Suffolk, Va)

Train Themed Baby Shower Cake

I was asked to make a cake to match the Carter train theme. First I baked the cake.

I used two boxes of Duncan Hines white cake mix and added ingredients to it.

Flour, sugar, sour cream, vanilla extract, almond extract, salt, oil, water and egg whites.

The cake was for 20-25 people and I chose to make a two tiered cake consisting of a two layer 8"round and a two layer 6" round.

I torted the caked and filled them with chocolate pudding. after creating a dam with stiff buttercream.

I use the Wilton recipe for my buttercream. It consists of Crisco, vanilla and almond extract, salt, powdered sugar, water, and meringue powder. After filling I then spread on a thin crumb coating of buttercream.

I use marshmallow fondant to cover each tier. It consists of marshmallows, water, vanilla extract and powdered sugar.

I colored the fondant in the colors needed. Blue (light and dark), green, and brown (light and dark). For the train I used a mixture of colored fondant and gumpaste (a few days ahead of time so it could dry).

After covering the tiers in fondant I cut dowels to size and stuck them in the bottom tier to support the one above (each cake is on a cardboard circle).

I then placed the whole cake on the board and began decorating. I cut out stripes in the different colors and stuck them on using gum glue (a mixtures of peices of gumpaste and water, set up to create a glue).

I cut out the stars and attached them to the top tier with gum glue. I then rolled out the brown and cut it for the border. the buttons are cut out cirlces shaped with holes poked into them.

I attached dowels to the back of the train using royal icing. Ahead of time I had taken floral wire and put on small balls of gumpaste, allowing it to dry. I attached a small hollow sucker stick to the back of the train using royal icing and stuck the floral wire into it.

I then stuck the whole train into the top of the cake and it was done!

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