Love Thomas?

2010-09-13T11:28:00.000-07:00

Comment and tell us why you love Thomas!

Online Printable Coloring Books

2008-08-20T16:37:00.000-07:00

If you are looking for online printable coloring books that are very reasonably priced, easy to print, a huge variety of themes, then this is definitely the site you need to check out!http://www.getcoloringbooks.com

KIDS CRAFTS and COLORING PAGES

2008-08-13T11:55:00.000-07:00

Lots of free printable kids crafts and coloring pages!

www.craftkitsforkids.com

THOMAS THE TRAIN CAKE

2008-08-10T10:54:00.000-07:00

What child would not love to have a Thomas the Train Cake for their birthday? I had difficulty finding a Thomas the Tank Engine cake pan so I found this train cake pan and recipe on the Wilton website and the products can be bought through the Wilton website.

The cake can be decorated to look just like a Thomas the Train Cake!

Tools:
Cake Board
Choo Choo Train Pan Set
Tip: 4
Tip: 12
Tip: 16
Tip: 18
Fanci-Foil Wrap
Ingredients:
Leaf Green Icing Color
Orange Icing Color
Golden Yellow Icing Color
Sky Blue Icing Color
Brown Icing Color
Buttercream icing
Cake Release
Makes: Cake serves 12.

INSTRUCTIONS

Prepare Icing

We suggest that you tint all icings at one time while cake cools. Refrigerate tinted icings in covered containers until ready to use.
Make 4 cups buttercream icing:

Tint ¾ cups brown

Tint 1 ¼ cups orange

Tint ½ cups green

Tint ½ cup yellow

Tint ¼ cups blue

Reserve ¾ white

Decorate in Order
1. Use tip 4 and brown icing to outline cab windows and for wheel spokes.

2. Use tip 18 and brown icing to cover windows, train apron and top of smokestack with stars.

3. Use tip 18 and orange icing to cover the cab with stars.

4. Use tip 18 and orange icing to pipe stripes on wheel rims.

5. Use tip 16 and blue icing to cover area between wheel and spokes with stars.

6. Use tip 4 and yellow icing to outline cap on engine.

7. Use tip 4 and orange icing to outline engine parts.

8. Use tip 18 and green icing to cover engine with stars.

9. Use tip 16 and yellow icing to pipe stripes on engine body and apron.

10. Use tip 16 and yellow icing to cover bottom part of smokestack, trim on engine face, apron and center of wheels with stars.

11. Use tip 16 and yellow icing to pipe zigzag axles on tiny wheels on engine side.

12. Use tip 16 and yellow icing to pipe rosette tiny wheels on engine side.

13. Use tip 16 and yellow icing to pipe stripe bars connecting axle bar across wheels.

14. Use tip 18 and orange icing to cover cap on engine with stars.

15. Use tip 18 and white icing to cover face on front of engine with stars.

16. Use tip 12 and white icing to pipe spiral smoke on top of smokestack.

17. Use tip 16 and white icing to pipe smoke puffs behind bottom wheels.

18. Use tip 4 and white icing to print message on cake top.

19. Use tip 4 and brown icing to pipe dot eyes on engine.

20. Use tip 4 and brown icing to outline mouth on engine.

21. Use tip 4 and brown icing to outline wheel spokes again.

Baking Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 F or temperature per recipe directions. Your cake will unmold easily, without sticking, when you prepare the pan properly. Grease the inside of pan using a pastry brush and solid vegetable shortening (do not use butter, margarine or liquid vegetable oil). Spread the shortening so that all indentations are covered. Sprinkle about 2 Tablespoons flour inside pan and shake so that flour covers all greased surfaces.
Turn pan upside down and tap lightly to remove excess flour. If any shiny spots remain, touch up with more shortening and flour to prevent cake from sticking. (You can use vegetable oil pan spray or vegetable oil pan spray with flour, in place of solid shortening and flour, or use New Wilton Cake Release, for perfect, crumb-free cakes!).
Make cake mix according to package directions, or use your favorite scratch recipe. (You will need a full 6 cups of batter.) Pound cake, yellow or chocolate batters, packaged mixes or your own recipe are firm and offer the best results.
Pour batter into the front half of pan. The batter will come right to the rim, almost to the point of overflowing. Snap the back half of the pan in place and tie pans tightly together in two places with household string or wire, to prevent rising batter from forcing pans apart. Place pan on a cookie sheet and bake on middle rack of oven for 50-60 minutes, until toothpick inserted in vent hole on top of pan comes out clean. Top half of pan may be removed during last ten minutes of baking to check cake.
When cake is done, remove from oven and place on cake rack to cool for 5 minutes. Then remove top half of pan and cool 5 minutes more. Replace top pan, turn cake over and remove bottom pan. It may be necessary to tap pan with the handle of a spatula to free cake from pan.

History of Thomas the Train

2008-07-27T12:54:00.000-07:00

Thomas the Tank Engine is a fictional tank locomotive created by the Rev. W. V. Awdry in his Railway Series books, made into the British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends and its American spin-off Shining Time Station.Thomas the Tank Engine first appeared in 1946 in the book Thomas the Tank Engine as a station pilot, whose job was to shunt coaches and trucks for the bigger engines. He longed for more important jobs such as pulling the express train like Gordon, but his inexperience prevented this. Eventually he was responsible for rescuing James after an accident, and the Fat Controller (who was then known as the Fat Director) decided that he was a Really Useful Engine, and ready for his own branch line. He has remained in charge of this line ever since.His closest friends are Annie and Clarabel, his 2 coaches. However, he is also very good friends with Percy (despite a lot of arguments), Toby, his old friend Edward, and his frequent substitute Duck.Thomas is based on the E2 Class 0-6-0T locomotives built for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway between 1913 and 1916.

Free Printable Thomas The Tank Coloring Pages

2008-07-27T12:46:00.000-07:00

Here you will find links to Free Printable Thomas The Tank Coloring Pages: