Thomas train cake and cupcakes

Simon had seen some of my Thomas train cakes on my website and asked if i could do a similar cake for his son. As i wanted something a little different from the other Thomas train cakes i’d done previously, i decided to set the trains on a blue based background with little clouds all over the cake and little rolling green hills on the side of the cake. The train toppers i made on the top were of Percy and James since these 2 were Ansel’s favourite characters.

Here’s a side view of the cake and the trains…

Simon had asked me to include the rail road crossing sign as well.. but i had to do it out of paper and that wasn’t edible :p

In addition to the cake, Simon also asked if i could do some cupcakes for him, following the same theme… i of course said no problem. However, since cost was a factor, we agreed that instead of 3d trains on each of the cupcakes, i would do 2D faces of the trains as the cupcake topper instead.

These were how they turned out. The cupcakes included Thomas, Percy and James. Don’t they look cheery and bright I had a fun time thinking up various expressions for the faces and having each of the cupcakes with their eyes looking in different directions. Cute aren’t they

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Toy train cupcakes for a birthday boy….

I just came back from a trip to Europe and to tell the truth, I’m still suffering from jet lag… but as i had promised to do some birthday cupcakes for a little boy, it was back to work for me :p I was quite excited with the latest request as the mom wanted some trains as toppers for the cupcakes. I’ve been dying to try my hand at doing trains a long time back but had lacked the opportunity to do so… so when this order came in, i of course jumped at the chance.

The mom wanted the mini cupcake size and this did give me some problem initially as it meant that i wouldn’t be able to put in much detail to the train due to the size of the cupcakes. However, after adding some other details such as train tracks, sprinkles and a little tree, i thought the cupcakes turned out pretty great I just hope the kids love it too.

From what the mother told me, these little cupcakes were to be given out the little boy’s classmates when he goes to school.. It’s something like sharing the birthday cake with the birthday boy’s classmates but without the mess of cutting up the cake. Aren’t cupcakes cool that way …. hee hee

 Here is one other close up picture of the cupcakes… my hubby keeps saying that i placed the head of the train the wrong way round… :p but I still think i did it correctly.. what do you think?

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