Football Cake Ideas

For the football fans in your life, coming up with creative football cake ideas can turn their birthday parties into truly memorable occasions. However, for a truly unique cake, you'll need to give yourself plenty of time for the design, testing and decoration. You should also do your research, especially if you don't know much about the sport, so you know that you're using the right logos. Please share your own cake.

Football Cake Decorating Ideas

Creative Football Cake Ideas

The hard part of coming up with football cake ideas is working out what part of the game to use as the theme. Watching a game with the birthday boy or girl might give you some inspiration, so you might want to try making:

A jersey – making a full color jersey shaped cake will make them smile, but you'll need to do your research first. From a distance, football jerseys look like they have one central color with a bit of trim, but up close they have quite complex designs. The main thing will be to get the main color right, and you may need to invest some time getting the mix of food colorings right.

To make the cake, you'll need to bake a rectangular cake, and then chop the bottom third off. Split this bottom third in half and use these blocks as the arms. Attach them with icing or just by pushing them together when they're still warm. You can then cover the whole thing in white icing and paint it with food colorings, or make blocks of colored icing. For an added touch, put their name and favorite number on the back as well

A helmet – a helmet is a bit easier to make than the jersey as they tend to be of just one color, but they do have the difficulty of the mouth guard and logo of the team. For the mouth guard, you could make thin bars out of cake and overlap them, or just paint them on with food coloring. The team logo may be harder as they can be complex, so it may be worth printing one off and sticking it down to be removed once the cake has been admired.

Using a football shaped pan decorate with chocolate stars and white writing for lines.

photo courtesy of angegreen

Make a football cupcake cake. Watch the video for easy directions.

Frost a 13x9 pan green and add grass with tip 233. Add football cake decorations.

Bake a 13x9 cake and allow to cool. (no need to level the cake as you'd like a dome look to it) With a sheet of paper cut out the shape of a football for a pattern. Lay pattern on top of your cake and cut out a football shaped cake. Decorate with chocolate frosting and pipe white lines to finish.

How to make football cupcakes.
Try these cupcakes for an easy football. Photo courtesy of nirbhao

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