This Great Cake Contest entry was submitted by jiyasarma from Weehawken, New Jersey: All aboard for fun! Thomas will bring a smile to your little engineer's face. Thomas is easy to assemble and decorate -- and memorable, too!
What you'll need
- 13 x 9 rectangle cake
- 9 inch round cake
- Blue frosting (or white frosting and blue food coloring)
- White frosting
- Licorice whips
- Junior mints
- 2 yellow Necco wafers
How to make it
Frost 13 x 9 inch cake with blue frosting (add blue food coloring to white frosting if you do not have blue frosting).
Place 9 inch round cake on lower third of 13 x 9 cake, and frost top and sides of round cake with white frosting.
Use licorice whips to outline top of round cake, and form eyes, eyebrows and mouth. Add junior mints to make centers of eyes on round cake.
Use licorice whips to outline remaining features of Thomas on blue cake. Position yellow Necco wafers on top third of blue cake, and stick junior mint to top of Necco wafer with a dab of frosting.
