Beach Ball Cake

This beach ball cake makes a great swimming pool party cake or summer fun cake. It is made using a ball pan. You can also buy a mini ball pan and make small ball cakes for each guest or let guests decorate their own ball cake.

How to Make a Beach Ball Cake

Prepare your icing colors and bags in the colors you'd like your beach ball to be. This cake was made into an ice cream cake so we had to work fast and refreeze it every so often. We choose to smooth out the color but you can also use the stars fill in method.

First crumb coat your cake. With a clean ruler divide and make a straight line where you want your stripes to be. Using black frosting and a writing tip make black lines. Or white lines if you prefer.

crumb coat ball

Start filling in your ball color by color. I finished each color with a zigzag design on the end.

filling in colors

To smooth the color, I added frosting in a sloppy fashion and smoothed it with a wet finger or knife dipped in water. If you are adding stars it will just be a matter of piping stars within each stripe.

smooth icing

To finish it off, I cut out a circle using a cookie cutter and a small piece of white fondant.

beach ball done

Free Cake Decorating Ideas:

If you don't want to make a 3D ball cake you can make a beach ball on a round 8-9 pan. Use 1 layer or 2. Outline with a toothpick, where your white or black lines will be. With a writing tip pipe your frosting lines. Fill in different colors with a star tip. Decorate with a colorful border.

Place a mini ball on top of a double layer round cake. Decorate the sides of your round cake blue like water. Decorate the tops blue like water as well or add graham cracker crumbs to resemble sand. Decorate your mini ball like a beach ball. This makes a great "day at the beach" cake.

if you would rather host a more interactive pool party use a mini ball pan with which you can make small ball cakes. Once baked these allow guests to decorate their own personal beach ball cake.

After baking the cake, select the icing colors for your beach ball cake and then draw lines using a black frosting bag topped with a thin tip. Actually, you can use any color of line you want but black contrasts well with other colors and also adds some flashiness to the cake. Fill in between the lines with alternating colors or patterns, such as zigzags or diagonal lines.

When using mini beach ball cakes, arrange guests around a table filled with icing tubes and have a contest to see who is the most artistic when decorating their cake. Offer a funny door prize as an incentive, such as a free pair of nose plugs or an old-fashioned bathing cap.

See Wilton's directions for making a beach ball.

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