Hello Friends!
It is crazy to think just over a month ago we were celebrating Sebastian turning two. And call me crazy we celebrated with not one but two parties – one with his little friends and one with family. Yes, I was trying to keep it easy but I love birthdays and you know how it goes…
Since we were celebrating with a Thomas Party, it seemed fitting to make a Thomas cake. Of course two parties called for two cakes (told you I was a little crazy!). I decided on making two different flavoured cakes, a simple Butter Cake for his party on the Saturday with his little friends and a Chocolate Cake for his party on the Sunday with family. The two recipes I used are my absolute favourites. They are my go to birthday cake recipes (with the exception of Red Velvet Cake which is Steve favourite), and the Chocolate Cake especially is MY requested birthday cake (you just need to ask my MUM).
As far as decorations went I wanted to keep the them simple but effective. After all, Sebastian was only going to notice if it had Thomas on it, the rest in his eyes wasn’t going to matter. So I whipped up a triple batch of butter cream icing, left a third of it plain and coloured the remaining bright green. When decorating a cake for a special occasion (like a birthday) I like to ice the cake from the freezer. I find it holds it shape a lot better, plus there tends to be less crumbs. I also like to ‘crumb coat’ the cake with a couple of thin coats of icing, before applying the coloured layer. I then iced the middle, top and sides of both cakes with scrummy green butter cream icing.
For decorations I sprinkled with coconut dyed green as grass (for the countryside Thomas is travelling through); and made the track (for Thomas to ride along) out of liquorice. As for Thomas himself, he was raided from Sebastian’s toy box and place on the cake ‘just so’ after all I didn’t want his wheels to get covered and sticky in the icing.
The cake for his party on the Sunday with family had the same decorating on top with an added a tunnel on the side, as the cake was higher, made from liquorice strap and jelly beans for Percy to make his way out of.
I was really pleased with how they both turned out, simple yet effective and the birthday boy LOVED them (that’s the main thing, right), especially the one on Sunday with the jelly beans which he picked off and ate before we had even sung him ‘Happy Birthday’. Luckily, I had taken plenty of photos before hand and hey! it was his birthday after all.
What do you think of Sebastian’s Thomas Birthday Cake?
Do you make Birthday Cakes for your kiddies? What cakes have you made? Share with us below..
SO cute Lydia. I love it. Love all the little details and it’s perfect for a second birthday for a very special little man 🙂 xx
Thanks Maria.
So easy too which was a bonus 🙂 xx
Naaaw, it’s adorable! Such a fun idea. And I mean, who doesn’t LOVE Thomas.
Thanks Melissa 🙂
Thomas for the WIN in our household all the way xx
I bet your son enjoyed this lovely cake. It’s very simple, but very creative (I love the train that was coming out of the “tunnel” on the side). Your tip about frosting the cake from the freezer has me curious. How long do you freeze the cake? Does it ever change the taste of it? Im not very good at icing a cake, so any tips (like this one) is always helpful.
Thanks for sharing this lovely creation with us on #SHINEbloghop, Lydia! It was so lovely of you to join us this week!
He sure did Maria 🙂
I generally freeze it overnight and the ice the following day / evening. With the cakes I have tried it on (see the post for links to butter cake and chocoholic choccie cake) it does not change the flavour of the cake.
Thanks for hosting 🙂 xx
Oh I just LOVE this!!! I know a couple of special little nephews who would adore it too!
You are too kind Lucy!
I think many little Thomas loving boys would love a cake like this 🙂 xx
What a cute cake! You did a great job! My grandson is 4 he would love a cake like this, and I think I may be able to make this. Looks pretty easy. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your kind words and for stopping by Linda.
I am sure you could create this cake for your grandson, very easy and yet effective.
If you do, let me know how it goes, I’d love to see it
xx
So cute! I love all of the details. Thanks for sharing with us at the Merry Monday Link Party. Hope to see you again on Sunday!
Thanks for stopping by Tiffany 🙂
This is so cute and I love how you created the little tunnel! I’ve been drooling over all the cake recipes you linked up at Share The Wealth Sunday this week! Thanks so much for joining our party!
xoxo
Lisa
It has been a full on couple of weeks with baking that’s for sure.
I am making the most of #thebabywantedit 😉
I love the train coming out of the tunnel! Thanks for sharing with the Blog Fair. Think I’m going to have to test out some of your cake recipes!
Hahah.. thanks Karen! xx
This is so adorable and I love that it doesn’t have a million things you need to buy to make it! Thanks for sharing at MeetUp Monday!
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No, I am all for keeping it simple and easy on myself 🙂
Thanks for the feature and hosting the linky, will be back again this week xx
This is really cute! I bet he loved it!
Thanks Kristie – he sure did 🙂 xx
I really enjoyed checking out your Thomas cake – I love how you have Henry coming out of the cake like it is a tunnel. We are a Thomas the Train household and I’m sure the toddler will be needing another Thomas cake for one of his birthdays! Thanks for sharing, pinned