Category: Events

• the snacks were served in a train. I painted disposable foil oven trays with blue and green craft paint, stuck black paper circles on the sides for wheels and strung them together with twine. I then used old cardboard boxes to make a train to go at the front (decorated in blue and green of course), lined the carriages with blue and green tissue paper and filled them up with delicious eats. 
• a cardboard “birthday crossing” sign with paper lights underneath, and another sign that said “Platform 2”. 
• “Thanks for chugging by” party packs displayed in an open suitcase marked “Baggage Claim”. 
• the children played pass-the-parcel with train songs as the music. 
• A train craft where the children could glue their own train pictures using shapes that I had pre-cut and cotton wool. (Apologies for the terrible photo!)

• I baked two 22cm vanilla cakes. I levelled off the bottom cake to make it easier to stack the other on on top, but I left the top one rounded to give it a “hilly” appearance. 
• The cake was iced with a thin layer of pale blue buttercream icing. 
• When it came to making the fondant train I referred to this easy tutorial, adding my own touches here and there. 
• I also used fondant to make the train tracks (I used a sharp knife to score lines into them to give them a more woody look), clouds, “tunnels” with rocks around them, apple trees and hills. 
• I finished the cake off by piping a little bit of green buttercream icing around the base to look like grass. 

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