Gingerbread Train Cake

For my son's 2nd birthday we got him a train set and since it's so close to Christmas, I made a train cake with a Christmas/Wintery theme.  It was a gingerbread cake with a lightly flavored spiced rum buttercream frosting.  And it was all decked out with gingerbread men, a gingerbread train, candy canes, a snowman and snowflakes.

With cookies to match!  These were sugar cookies with a light caramel flavoring.

Apple Cookie Bouquet

Apple Cookie Bouquet II

Apple Cookie Bouquet I

I made this cookie bouquet for my neighbor friend.  She recently graduated from college and got a nice new job, so to show her appreciation, she wanted to get her teachers a gift.  :)  What a nice student.