Help! Carving A 3-D Thomas The Tank Engine Cake
Decorating By dsoutherngirl Updated 19 Oct 2005 , 10:32pm by dsoutherngirl
Oh woe is me! I need to make a stand-up Thomas the Tank Engine cake by Friday and I thought I could get the Wilton 3-D choo-choo train pan at Michael's but they didn't have it! It is too late to order one. I know Debbie Brown's Lovable Characters book has a carved one from a sheet cake..but unfortunately I can't get the book in time either. Does anyone know how to carve a train cake?
I did one, it's in my gallery.
I'll add the "naked" cake pic, when it was carved, before it was iced. It might help?
I pressed a cookie cutter into the front to get the circle shape for the cylinder. then I used a breadknife to cut the length of it into the rounded shape, as far as the cab area. (does that make sense? LOL, all I had was the tiny little picture in the credits of the Debbie Brown book that *doesn't* have the instructions.
I also refered to instructions to make a firetruck (DBrown) to get a basic idea.
If I were to do another, I would trim the crusts off the cake better, before I started.
I've also seen them done with a jelly roll for the cylindrical part on the front.
Thank you Chyna! That does help! I'm going to give the carving a try.
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