This was a cake was such fun to make – I love using these bright colours and I enjoyed the challenge of working out how to make a realistic ‘chassis’ platform for the train to sit on. Each of the carriages is a triple layer 6×4×4 inch gooey chocolate cake, sandwiched and covered with whipped salted chocolate buttercream, and the engine was sculpted from the same. All three are sitting on custom built raised boards to give the illusion of load-bearing wheels, and then the whole lot has been assembled on a 24×14 inch covered board, so the finished cake was almost 2 feet long! It was 100% edible. Happy Birthday George! x