Polar Express Cake....help!!!!!!
Decorating By TiffTurtle Updated 22 Dec 2006 , 8:03pm by belindajax
My DH asked me to make a cake for hicompany Christmas dinner on sat..I have been racking my brain and all i can think of is the Polar Express...The reason that i think this would be perfect is that they do a VERY fancy detailed float for the local Christmas parades every year and this year they BUILT the Polar Express train...but i have no idea of how to go about doing this..i did a search on the net for Polar Express cakes thinking that maybe some one out there in cyber world had done this before and i came up with zip...so im asking...begging...pleading...does anyone have any suggestions on how i could go about this? The dinner is for Sat night so i dont have much time 2 and 1/2 days to get this done...if any one could help me on this i would be in debted to you for a long long time.
This is a big deal for me to be doing a cake for his work... he works for a federal prison and the potential for orders from providing a knock out cake for them could off the chart, so you can see why i am in such a panic for the "perfect" cake.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out!!
Tiff
Tiff - do you have a copy of the book? What a about a chocolate transfer of one of the more familiar (and simple) images? I did that when making a cake for a Lemony Snicket fan (for a family birthday)...went to the web, found the illustrator's info, found a relatively simple drawing without too many lines/detail, and went for it. Choc transfer on the top, simpler designs for sides?
or.....If you have thw wilton train pan, or know someone who does?
Other than the P Express, what about one of those adorable cakes cc-ers have done with igloos/penguins/snowmen?
You don't have much time to design & create; but your stuff is all lovely; let us know what you decide on. Good luck!
Maureen
Thanks Maureen, I dont know why i didnt thing about a CT before...i sat down last night and sketched out some ideas for cakes...im thinking fireplace and rocker, or snowman and house...im not sure...its stressing me. I wasnt this stressed over the wedding cake that i did.
what about an edible image??? The photos online of the polar express are so beautiful and magical looking it would be so hard to capture that in a transfer!!!
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=lang_en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=polar+express&btnG=Search
I did a Polar Express cake this year for my son's first grade class and I also googled it and didn't come up with much. I ended up taking some ideas from some other train cakes on this site and used the Wilton choo-choo train pan. I also used a small loaf pan for a coal car, but to be authentic I should have done passenger cars with wide red stripe.
My cake wasn't overly spectacular and I certainly wasn't under as much pressure to make it special, but if you'd like to check out the picture for an idea or the other's cakes I used please feel free. I hope it can help.
Good Luck!
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