Train birthday cake
1 hour 10 min
The Christmas train is coming through town with this train-shaped pound cake decorated with all sorts of treats and sweets! Also makes a really fun birthday cake, the little ones will love it.
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1 person made this
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- For cake
- 250g butter, softened
- 250g caster sugar
- 3 eggs, separated
- 250g plain flour
- a pinch of salt
- For train decoration
- round caramel sweets
- icing sugar
- liquorice twists
- miniature figurines
- marshmallows
Method
Prep:25min ›
Cook:45min ›
Ready in:1hr10min
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Butter and flour a 450g (1 lb) loaf tin and reserve.
- In a large bowl cream softened butter with sugar. Add egg yolks and mix, then stir in flour. In a separate bowl beat egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form. Gently fold egg whites into egg yolk mixture, being careful not to break the peaks.
- Pour mixture into prepared loaf tin and bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Let cake cool and unmould from loaf tin.
- Cut cake into slices about 6cm thick, then cut each slice (save one) into thirds for the train cars. Cut remaining slice in half for the locomotive (see photo).
- Decorate train with caramels (wheels), icing sugar (snow), liquorice twists (logs), miniatures for passengers, etc. Use your imagination and enjoy!
