Football Cake

This football cake is the perfect celebration cake for any football fan. You can personalise it with a name or age on top coloured in their teams colours. It is relatively simple to carve the cake into a dome shape and once you know how it is easy to decorate with fondant to look like a football

To make the domed shape you will first bake two layers of cake in a regular round cake tin. Once baked and filled with buttercream you can carve the dome shape out bit by bit. Remember you can easily carve more off but it’s difficult to add bits back on so starting off small is the best way. It doesn’t have to be very smooth as you will cover the cake in chocolate buttercream before covering in fondant. This will help cover up any lumps and bumps so don’t worry about those.

I don’t use fondant very often as I find it difficult to get right but with this recipe it is very simple to get the football design right with minimal effort. To make it even easier for you I recommend either printing or drawing free hand a pentagon for the black fondant and a hexagon for the white. You can find these on the internet like this one. You can also buy alphabet or number cutters if you are going to make a name or number for the top of the cake. You will find these readily available at craft shops and to order online.

If you are looking for more birthday cake ideas check out my recipes for mega chocolate birthday cake and Kinder Chocolate cake

If you make this cake let me know how it went in the comments or tag me on instagram, Facebook or TikTok. I love to see everyone’s bakes.

 

Football Cake
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Football Cake

Difficulty: Medium
Servings

12

servings
Prep time

55

minutes
Cooking time

25

minutes
Total time

1

hour 

20

minutes

The perfect cake for a football fan!

Ingredients

  • Cake

  • 250g Unsalted Butter

  • 75g Cocoa Powder

  • 50ml Sunflower Oil

  • 400g Caster Sugar

  • 4 Eggs

  • 300g Self Raising Flour

  • 1 tsp Baking Powder

  • Icing

  • 100g Dark Chocolate

  • 100g Unsalted Butter

  • 500g Icing Sugar

  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract

  • Decoration

  • 500g Ready to Roll White Icing

  • 250g Ready to Roll Black Icing

  • Food colouring in your teams colours

Directions

  • Preheat the oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan. Grease two 8 inch circular cake tins. In a small bowl, whisk in the cocoa powder into 125ml boiling water then mix in the oil. Set aside to cool slightly.
  • In a large mixing bowl cream together the butter, sugar and vanilla extract with an electric whisk until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a little of the flour after each egg to prevent curdling. Beat in the cocoa mixture and gently fold in the remaining flour and baking powder. Divide between the two tins and bake for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
  • Once cooled, place the two cakes on top of each other on a cake board and use a knife to round off the top of the cake. Do this a little at a time to avoid mistakes. It doesn’t have t0 be perfect as you are going to buttercream it next.Chocolate football cake
  • Melt the chocolate and leave aside to cool. Using an electric hand whisk, beat together the butter and vanilla extract for 2 minutes to soften. Add half the icing sugar and beat on a low setting until combined. Add the rest of the icing sugar and beat for a further 1-2 minutes. Mix in the cooled, melted chocolate.
  • Spread a layer of butter cream on the bottom cake and place the second layer on top. Starting from the top, spread the remaining icing down the sides of the cake. Fill in any gaps with the buttercream and make sure you give it a smooth finish as any imperfections will be visible through the ready to roll icing. Place in the fridge for about 10 minutes to harden slightly.Chocolate football cake
  • Sprinkle icing sugar on your work surface and roll out the white icing to cover the cake. Take the cake out of the fridge and cover with the white icing. It may help to place the cake on an upturned bowl. Smooth it over the cake and cut of the extra icing. Roll out the black icing in the same way. Use a cutter or template to cut out 5 pentagons.
  • Place the first pentagon in the centre of the cake (you may need to use a little butter icing to stick them on). The top point of the other pentagons should line up with each point of the centre pentagon (see photos for reference). Use a blunt object to join the point of each pentagon to create hexagon in the white icing.
  • You can leave the cake as it is or use more fondant to decorate. I cut out the numbers from left over white icing and coloured them red to make them stand out more.

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