Thomas the engine cake

12 servings
1 day

How do I make Thomas the Engine cake? It is better to prepare mastic parts in advance, in a day, for example. So they will dry out and will be better kept in shape. For the face of the locomotive, you need to cut out two circles and roll three balls - a spout and cheeks. Place the balls in their places on the face circle, and make recesses in place of the eyes.

On the second circle, also make recesses in place of the eyes and deepen a little under the cheeks. Place the second face circle over the first.

Flatten well and gently.

Map out your mouth.

Use mastic to make your eyes, mouth and eyebrows and put everything in its place. Label the edge with a strip of mastic.

For the wheels, cut 6 circles out of the mastic.

Also cut 6 wheel rims out of the mastic.

Cut out thin strips and stick on the wheel circle in the form of spokes.

Trim the intersection of the strips.

Stick the middle and rim of the wheel.

The wheels can be additionally decorated in the middle with a small circle.

Make a whistle and a steam train chimney out of mastic.

Mold the rest of the small parts: four windows, two buffers (rear and front), two brackets. Leave all the parts dry for a day.

For the biscuit, melt the chocolate along with the butter in the microwave. Add the cocoa and mix thoroughly. Whisk the eggs with icing sugar with a mixer. Add the powder gradually. Send the beaten eggs to the chocolate mass and gently mix. Add the flour sifted with baking powder. Stir first with a spatula, then beat with a mixer. Divide the dough into 4 parts. You should get 4 biscuits. Bake the biscuits for 20 minutes when 190S.

Cut the cooled biscuits lengthwise into two parts. Cut blanks 23 by 17 cm from three parts.

Lay out the base, make the sides to support the filling.

Soak the biscuit in sugar syrup and also brush with cherry jam.

Lay out the cream, add the berries and marshmallows.

Top with some more cream and flatten.

Top with another 23 by 17 cm bark. Make another layer, as in the previous steps. Cut out three blanks just over half the length of the base. Lay out the blank, as in the photo, make the sides to maintain the filling.

Soak the bark in syrup, brush with jam, lay out the cream, berries, marshmallows and another bark on top. Lay out another layer of the same.

Top with two layers of cakes twice as short as the base.

For the engine cylinder, cut three circles out of the biscuit. One circle is bisected.

Fasten the semicircles and circles with cream. Place the semicircles on the second layer of the cake, and the circles on the first.

Coat the whole cake with mastic cream. Place the cake in the fridge until the cream has set.

Roll out a sufficient size mastic pancake. Cover the engine with mastic and flatten the mastic well at all bends and corners.

Glue the face and cladding elements of the front of the locomotive with a thickener.

At the base along the entire perimeter of the locomotive, first glue a black strip of mastic, above it red.

On top of the engine cylinder, stick 4 red stripes.

Glue all small parts to their places - wheels and windows.

Glue the buffer in front.

Glue the rear buffers.

Glue the brackets in front.

Cut two pipe and whistle holes in the cylinder from above.

Place the whistle and pipe in the holes. If necessary, a festive number can be placed on the roof of the train. The engine is ready to stand on the rails and roll into the mouths of young drivers! Have a fun holiday!