There are so many things that a 2-year-old boy likes...trains, firetrucks, buses, play-doh, animals, bubbles and the list goes on. So when it came time to narrow down on a theme for a cake for my big boy's second birthday, it was a tough decision! I wanted to incorporate as many of the birthday boy's favourite things as I can but still want it to be cohesive and not look like an explosion of random unrelated things.
In the end, I came up with an idea to make Thomas the train (Liam's favourite at the moment) and a few cabooses filled with some other things he loves. The first caboose was filled with animals - a monkey with bananas (one of Liam's favourite foods), a penguin and a lion along with some balloons in the back.
The second caboose was filled with a fire truck. The original idea was to fill it with a fire truck and a school bus. However, I spent much more time on the fire truck than I intended (all the tiny details took much longer to do on a miniature scale!) so I ran out of time to make the school bus =( Oh well, maybe it will make its way into the cake next year =P
Thomas is made of banana cake with vanilla butter cream and the cabooses are carrot cake with cream cheese buttercream.
This cake took me quite a while to plan and even longer to put together. I was working on it pretty much right up to before the party =P I had to sacrifice some sleep to get it done in time but when I saw the look on Liam's face when he pointed to the cake and said 'Thomas!', it was all worth it!
