Bowling Ball Cake


A party favorite, your guests are sure to enjoy a bowling ball cake and party theme. After a few regular rounds of bowling, change things up. Direct guests bowl backwards, bowl with the wrong hand or have a round of the best Flintstones’ impressions. Have fun with the party and give awards for silly things like the best gutter ball. After building an appetite bowling, present your guests with your homemade a bowling ball cake.



For the Novice Decorator

Using a 9 by 13 in pan, choose you favorite cake flavor for easy-to-make bowling themed cut cake. Start by making a pin:
  • Follow the cake recipe
  • Let cool completely on a rack
  • Cut the cake diagonally, from one corner to the other
  • Continue to shape a bowling pin
  • Frost the cake with white frosting
  • Use red frosting or licorice for the stripes

Accompany the pin with a bowling ball:

  • Bake a cake in a round pan
  • Cut a little semi circle from the side to fit the ball next to the pin
  • Place the ball next to the pin, giving the appearance that the ball is slightly behind the pin
  • Take 2 colors of frosting (e.g. blue and purple) and frost the ball with a marble effect
  • Use candy or black frosting for the finger holes
bowling ball and pin cakePhoto courtesy of creative cake maker.


More Bowling Cake Ideas


bowling cake with figurines
Photo courtesy of CJ Sorg

Free Cake Decorating Ideas:

You can make an easy cake shaped like a bowling ball  by using the sports ball speciality pan. Pipe chocolate stars all over in the fill in star method.

However you can also make a bowling cake by shaping your cake, painting your cake with a pattern or adding figurines to the top of a frosted cake.


This bowling themed cupcake idea is more difficult, but it is well worth the effort. Check out the book Hello Cupcake for more details.

By using cupcakes, mini cupcakes and donut holes you can assemble bowling pins by assembling cupcakes and donut holes into a pin shape and frosting with white frosting. Red twizzlers or red stripe candy is added for the lines on the pins.

You can also bake a bowling ball cake in a circle pan to go along with your cupcakes.


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