If your kid likes Thomas the Train, I highly recommend these themed desserts! No need to be a professional to create these simple yet adorable birthday treats. :)
Cupcakes Train
Ingredients
- 24 Graham Cracker sheets
- 48 Marshmallows (medium-sized)
- 1-2 containers Icing (your choice of color/flavor)
- 1 box Cake Mix (your choice of flavor)
- 24 Cupcake liners
- Thomas the Train toy engine
Directions
- Mix and bake 24 cupcakes (in decorative liners) according to the cake mix box instructions.
- While the cupcakes are baking and cooling, work on the bases of the train cars:
- Unwrap 24 graham cracker sheets and arrange them in pairs.
- For each pair, frost one side of one cracker (does not need to be neat!), then stick the second cracker on top of the icing (should look like a graham cracker-icing sandwich).
- Lay down 4 marshmallows (round-side down) so they look like 4 wheels.
- Add a dab of icing to the top of each marshmallow, then place one of your graham-cracker icing sandwiches on top (the icing acts as the glue to hold the train car together). Repeat until you have 12 train car bases.
- Once cupcakes are completely cooled, frost them with your favorite icing.
- Place a dab of icing on the bottom of each cupcake and stick them on top of the graham cracker train cars (2 cupcakes on each car).
- Arrange the cupcake cars in a line, as if they are hooked together (can be in a straight line, or a curvy one, whatever shape you want!).
- Position the toy engine at the front of your line to complete the train.
Train Number Cake
Ingredients
- 2-3 containers Icing (your choice of color/flavor)
- Black writer icing
- 2 boxes Cake Mix (your choice of flavors)
- 1 box Oreo Cookies, crushed
- 1 package Licorice (optional)
- Thomas the Train toy engine
Directions
- Mix and bake both cakes according to the cake mix box instructions.
- While the cakes are baking and cooling, crush the Oreo cookies to use for your train track.
- Once cakes are completely cooled, place them side-by-side, with a little icing between them to help them stick together. Then carve the extra large rectangular cake into whatever number you desire.
- After carving, frost them however you want with your favorite icing. Feel free to outline with licorice or other yummy decorations.
- When cake decorating is complete, add the train track gravel by sprinkling a thick line of the crushed Oreos in the shape of the number you carved.
- On top of the gravel, use the writer icing (or regular icing with a writing tip) to create the tracks themselves...which is simply 2 parallel outer lines with a bunch of closer lines intersecting them.
- Position the toy engine somewhere on the track.