This Sports Ball Cake combines the biggies - Football, Baseball, Basketball, and Soccer. Humm I guess I should have included a volleyball-forgot about that one.
The cakes are an 8" at the bottom, and 6" in the middle, and a 4" sphere on the top.
To make the curved marks on the baseball tier, I used a bowl that was the same height as my cake. The marks are a guide to where the red stitch marks are going to be placed.
For the football tier I used a Bounty paper towel to give it an even rougher texture than the baseball cake.
I made a cutter for the center section (sorry I don't know what it is called) using my 3D printer and the pattern below. But if you don't have a 3D printer you can just use a paper template. I used Wilton Brown, Black, and White fondant. I again used the JEM #2 strip cutter to make the boarder around the base of the football cake. For the white stitching I used the JEM #3 strip cutter. You can cut the strips by hand rather than using the strip cutter, but I like the ease and precision of the strip cutter.
The basketball cake at the top was the hardest part of the entire cake. I used two Fat Daddio 4" hemisphere pans to bake the cake.
And then I frosted it in orange buttercream.
I used a damp finger to smooth out the frosting, but to me it still looked a little messy. And I used my trusty JEM #2 strip cutter to make the black lines on the basketball.
When the cake was finished I thought the sides of the baseball tier looked a little plain, so I added some "All Star" fondant lettering in red and blue.
Here is the pattern:
For the little sports balls I used a plastic mold and just pressed the fondant into the mold. After removing the fondant, I just drew the black accent lines on the soccer and basketball with an edible black marker. I used a marker with a wide tip to get the bold, black lines. On the baseball I used a red marker, and the little football has white fondant accents.
So here is the finished cake.
And I made a few matching cookies too.
Happy Decorating,
stunning! great work
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