Easy Homemade Christmas Oreo candy train – perfect for little kids to assemble along. Made with store-bought ingredients (biscuits, Oreos & candies) and homemade royal icing. Easy, fun and magical DIY Christmas project with/for children. From scratch Gingerbread Christmas train option included below.
Ladies and gents, the Christmas Candy Express is leaving Sweet Tooth Valley in 10 minutes—so all aboard at Platform No.1! And remember, no candy gets left behind.
Now, on a more festive note, this one’s a bit different from my usual recipe posts. But for the last couple of Christmases, me and my boys had an absolute blast making this. With Christmas just around the corner, I thought our homemade biscuit candy express might inspire you to have a bit of fun too.
What makes it really magical isn’t just how it looks or the sweets on it—it’s the time spent around the table with my little helper. Building, laughing, and sneaking a candy or two when the other’s not looking.
WHAT You’ll NEED:
- 1 pack Biscuits /Crackers -> ones that do not break easily when you attempt to divide them.
- 1 pack round cacao biscuits (like Oreo’s)
- 1 egg white (for royal icing)
- 150 g powdered sugar (for royal icing and snow)
- 1/2 Kinder chocolate bar
- 1 pack M&Ms
- 1 pack Skittles
- 1 pack gummy bears of choice
- flat surface for storing it
If you wish to go the homemade alley and make a Gingerbread Train from scratch – I recommend preparing the biscuits with our Ginger Honey Dough – it’s perfect for Gingerbread Houses too.
How to make DYI Christmas Candy Train?
1st: Prepare all ingredients at the table. Make the royal icing (or use store-bought icing instead). Start assembling the train by sticking the biscuits to one another (start from the bottom up) with icing.
2nd: Hold the Candy wagons together for a few minutes until icing gets firmer. Set aside until icing is completely firm. Then, assemble the whole train with icing and let get firm again. Add candies and enjoy!
Christmas Biscuit Candy Train for kids
Ingredients
Train
- 1 pack white biscuits (that do not break that easily)
- 1 pack cacao round biscuits
- 1 pack M&M's
- 1 pack Skittles
- 1 pack gummy beard
Homemade Royal Icing
- 1, 1/2 cups /150g powdered white sugar US cup measures
- 1 egg egg white needed
- 2 drops vanilla optional
Instructions
Royal Icing
- In a small mixing bowl, beat egg white to stiff peaks. on high speed. Then add powdered white sugar & vanilla and mix until combined on low speed. Mix should be sticky. Set aside and prepare train ingredients, then use accordingly (for sticking elements together or decorating)
Train
- Start by assembling the train cars. We used 4 biscuits for each car (depends on biscuit size and type). Apply royal icing on each biscuit – on the side that will be attached to another biscuit. Divide biscuits in two where needed to fit the car on each side. Assemble gently and set aside until icing dries out (approx 10-15 min). Continue until all train cars are assembled.
- Then make the locomotive. Take 6 round cacao biscuits (like oreo) and stick them to one another with icing. Set aside and let dry.
- Once icing on train cars and locomotive has dries out, take a biscuit and cover with icing on each side – use as binding biscuit to connect the cars – continue untill all train cars and locomotive in the front are connected.
- Then divide round cacao cookies in two and stick to each side of each car with icing (with round side up) to make the weels.
- Then cover the locomotive with icing to make it snowy. Use icing to glue M&M's on the side of the train cars and on the front of the locomotive (to make lights). Add the chocolate bar as locomotive chimney and let stick together.
- Then fill each train car with candies and gummy bears. Usign a small strainer sprinckle powdered white sugar around the train to make 'snow'. Refill train cars once candies get eaten.
Notes
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