Here is the best and easiest cake you could ever make!... A friend gave this recipe to me a long time ago. I later found that it was from FamilyFun.com which is now owned by the Walt Disney Group.

``Reader Shelley Collette of Palisade, Colorado, engineered this great train cake, which makes an ideal centerpiece for a toddler's choo-choo party. If you invited the entire nursery school, bake extra cars.

``Ingredients:

``5 baked mini loaf cakes, 4 cups frosting (any four colors), 16 M&M's, 16 chocolate sandwich cookies, Candies and cookies for cargo, Rope licorice, 1 marshmallow, frosted and rolled in jimmies (for the smokestack), 6 popcorn pieces or mini marshmallows threaded on a wire (for the steam), Vanilla wafer for engineer.

``Step 1:

``Cut one loaf cake as shown in the small picture. Use frosting to attach the pieces you cut off to the four remaining loaves, creating different shaped cars. Frost the engine and each car a different color.

``Step 2:

``With a small dab of frosting, place an M"M in the center of each cookie to make the train wheels, then press the wheels against the frosted sides of the train.

``Step 3:

``Add beds of candy cargo, outlined with licorice; a marshmallow smokestack with popcorn steam; and a decorated vanilla-wafer engineer.