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Wilton Ideas That Use This Pan
A Budding Romance Cake
Here’s to the happy couple! This pretty cake is topped with a basket of sweet blooms enhanced with a lovely basket weave design.
A Feather in Your Cap Cake
Celebrate any occasion with flair! A Feather in Your Cap Cake features a fondant bow, feathers, and flowers. Perfect for milestone birthdays or Easter!
A Smashing Success Smash Cake
Use our patterns and piping-technique instructions to transform a Sports Ball Pan Set cake and ice cream cone into a party-hat-wearing googly-eyed goof!
Ahoy Mate Cake
Ahoy Mate! Ye best serve this cake at your next party, or ye walk the plank. A fondant scarf, gold earring, and eye patch complete the look of this pirate face.
All in One Basket Cookies
In this instance, it’s OK to keep your eggs All in One Basket. Colorful egg cookies and tinted coconut “grass’ fill this candy basket for Easter.
All Wrapped Up! Cake
Little goblins will run for their “mummies” when they see All Wrapped Up! As if the mummy head cake wasn’t scary enough, he’s also brought along his fondant spider friend.
Baseball Star Cake
The Baseball Star Cake will be a “hit” at any party. Perfect for a birthday or Little League victory party, this filled 3-D cake won’t strike out.
Bowling Ball Cake
This 3-D Bowling Ball Cake is right up your alley. Made using the Sports Ball pan, it’s decorated with quick and easy stars. Sure to strike some smiles when you split the slices with your team!
Cake, Rattle and Roll! Cake
Could any cake be easier or more fun for baby showers than our Cake, Rattle and Roll! Cake? Use the Wilton Sports Ball and Mini Ball Pans for baking, then connect the cakes with a ribbon-wrapped dowel rod and add star and candy accents.
Circus Cat Cake
No lyin’, this Circus Cat deserves to be in the center ring! Easy-to-decorate cake-on-cake design feeds up to 44 hungry birthday party guests!
Closely Witched Pot Cupcakes
Bubble, bubble, toil, no trouble! Witch cupcakes are baked right in the Silly-Feet! Cups. The Closely Witched Pot is made using a candy shell molded in the Sports Ball pan and filled with pieces of candy.
Crawling Toward Your First! Cake
Baby will be enthralled with this crawling caterpillar First Birthday cake! The sections are made in our Sports Ball Pan halves‹use one for the perfect smash cake! Spell the name and age in cookies.
Cue Ball Cake
Everyone’s into the pool with this ideal birthday theme cake! It’s one more sport that the Sports Ball Pan takes a cue from. Run the table with any ball colors or numbers you like!
Duck Under Cover Cake
This duck loves fowl weather and he’ll brighten any baby shower! The Duck Under Cover Cake features a 3-D Rubber Ducky Cake holding a big fondant umbrella made in our Sports Ball Pan.
For the Good Earth's Sake Cake
Throw a “Go Green” party and share earth-saving tips with your neighbors! To set the scene, we’ve topped a green-iced sheet cake with a Sports Ball cake planet. Cookies, decorated to represent different nations, circle the globe.
Fun's A Shore Thing Cake
Your personal stretch of tropical beach is shaded with a candy shell umbrella and adorned with vibrant royal icing flowers. Watch our online video.
Giant Ornament Cake
Bring the cheerful style of a traditional Christmas tree ornaments to your holiday table as well as on your tree! This giant ornament cake is iced in buttercream and decked with fondant cut-out trees and trim.
Gifts of Bread and Wine Cake
The delicate openwork swirls in our Wire Lace Cross and Filigree Gazebo give this blossom-filled communion cake a lighter-than-air look.
Golf Ball Cake
Whether hacker or low-handicapper, any golfer will enjoy a slice of this Golf Ball Cake. Our Sports Ball Pan makes it easy to create lots of fun 3-D designs for the athletes in the family.
Grabbing All the Goodies Cupcakes
This fondant-hat-wearing, googley-eyed octopus tickles guests’ funny bones! Create the cupcake-grasping critter by encircling a candy-shell head shaped in our Sports Ball Pan with eight fondant arms.
Grill of Your Dreams Candy
Everything tastes better on the grill, and your BBQ guests will think this candy centerpiece is very well done! Use the Sports Ball pan to mold the candy shell grill and shape the food using our candy clay recipe.
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? Cake
More than a little creepy, this head on a platter cake is sure to give your party guests the chills! It’s all edible…from the gumball eyeballs to the fondant veggie decorations.
Hats Off to Mother’s Day Cake
Cap off a celebratory meal with a festive fondant flourish atop this hat cake made with the Sports Ball Pan Set and a round cake "brim." Your message will be clear with this luscious lid: Hats Off to Mom!
He Loves a Good Shower Cake
3-D Duck is ready to party and He Loves a Good Shower! Cake-on-cake design uses molded candy packages to decorate the cake sides. A candy shell umbrella reinforces the shower theme.
Inviting All Amphibians
Friendly frog is Inviting All Amphibians to his birthday party! His legs are cookies in disguise, his hat is a frosted ice cream cone and his call is a deep-voiced “nee-deep!”
Kitty-cat Princess Cake
Fashion a feline figure by combining Animal Crackers Pan and Sports Ball Pan cakes with cookies cut using our paw, tail and legs patterns. Dub this kitty regal by adding a personalized iced-cookie crown.
Littlest Limo Cake
Greet the new arrival with the Littlest Limo Cake. Perfect for baby shower or christening, this pint-sized transport sports cookie wheels and candy-coated 3-D cakes for the carriage.
Long on Birthday Fun Cake
Sporting a perky birthday hat, this colorful creature is ready to party! Use our patterns to turn Sports Ball Pan, First and Ten Football Pan, and Mini Ball Pan cakes into a good-looking giraffe.
Pacifying Thoughts Cake
Our Pacifying Thoughts Cake proves that the Sports Ball Pan isn’t just for sports‹it’s great for baby showers too. Use it to mold the candy shell pacifier that tops the cake. It’s ideal for molding 3-D candy shapes.
Party Whole Hog! Cake
Your party will be anything but “boaring” when you serve up this pink piglet. Add Hidden Pillar legs to a Sports Ball Pan cake to create the porcine shape.
Petal Perfect Cake
We’ve developed a beautiful hybrid for your spring celebrations! The Petal Perfect Cake brings together 5 bright pink oval petal cakes around a Sports Ball cake center. Beautiful!
Pop-up Fun! Cake
Construct a playful jack-in-the-box confection from cookies, candy, icing-covered Cake Board shapes, and Sports Ball Pan and Square Pan cakes.
Primped-Up Pup Cake
This poodle has oodles of charm! Build a canine shape from cakes baked in our Mini Ball Pan and Sports Ball Pan. Add marshmallow feet and tail, and finish with piped-icing rosettes to create its captivatingly curled coat.
Romance in the Rain Cake
Shower the bride with a cake as memorable as her day’s celebration. Create a beautiful umbrella in advance with our easy-to-use Gum Paste Mix shaped on the outside of the Sports Ball Pan Set.
Saving for a Rainy Day Candy
Whether presented as take-home favors or as a centerpiece, these pot-of-gold piggies are sure to set guests squealing in delight. Shape the banks by molding pink Candy Melts® in our Sports Ball Pan and adding candy-coated marshmallow details.
See Spot Celebrate! Cake
Every kid wants a puppy! Use the animal crackers pan and half a sports ball pan to construct this cute puppy cake. Add roll out cookies hat, paw and tail. Now all you need is a doghouse!
She's Weaving Home Cake
Talk about time to upgrade! This larger than life spider needs more growing room. Made from our Sports Ball Pan and resting on a 12 in. Round Cake, this spider needs some room to stretch his legs along with his fancy shoes.
Snow Dancer Cake
This snowman is really on the ball…two in fact. Fondant trims add color and that whimsical touch kids love!
Soccer Ball Cake
Have a breakaway celebration for birthdays, after game treats or end-of-season awards banquets. You’ll score big with the team. You can even customize team colors.
Tennis Ball Cake
Serve a grand slam treat with this larger-than-life tennis ball cake. What could be better? How about making a dam on top half of cake by squeezing out a band of icing about 3/4 in. high around the edge and adding icing, jam, pudding or other filling in center. What’s not 2-LOVE?
Thankful Couple Cake
Invite this happy couple to your next Thanksgiving Celebration. Watch their faces come to life with the addition of Ready-To-Use Rolled Fondant facial features and accessories. Your guests will be thanking you for this bountiful treat.
The Princess Travels In Style Cake
Claim the title of fairy godmother! Turn a Sports Ball Pan cake into a captivating coach with cookie additions (we supply the patterns) and plenty of White Pearl Beading.
They'll Gobble it Up Cookies
Why not give this symbol of the season a place of honor on your Thanksgiving dessert table? It’s a combination of what guest love, all rolled into one. Turkey body is created from a candy plaque made with Candy Melts® shaped in the Sports Ball Pan set. Feathers are made with delicious Roll-Out Cookie recipe and neck and wings take flight with Chocolate Roll-Out Cookie recipe.
They're Guests, Not Pests! Cake
A perfect fit for a budding entomologist’s birthday party, this tiered cake will have guests buzzing. Follow our instructions for creating Fondant Bugs to sculpt a colorful gang of not-so-creepy crawlers.
True Love Truffles
It’s a chocolate lover’s dream come true. Serve exquisite chocolate truffles in a chocolate goblet. Shape goblet using Sports Ball Pan Set covered with melted chocolate. Make candy heart pops and candies to embellish the lavishly rich confection.
Truffle Tower Cake
When the occasion calls for grand, opulent splendor, have we got the cake! Stacked chocolate cakes covered with rich Chocolate Buttercream and topped with a decadent abundance of truffles and candies. This cake will please the tastes of 236 happy guests.
Truffles on the Tree! Candy
You’ll love the surprise inside! Red and white candy ornament is about 6 in. tall so there’s lots of room inside for an assortment of delicious truffles or other homemade goodies.
Under the Sea Cake
Having a pool party or seaside picnic? What could be more appropriate than this 3-D fish-shaped cake made using our Sports Ball pan. This colorful catch is one nobody will want to through back!
Weather It Together Cake
A polka-dotted cake stacks up as a reminder that these newlyweds will easily make it through good times and bad. Create an umbrella by shaping pink-tinted fondant in our Sports Ball Pan.
What a Ball! Cake
A Sports Ball pan makes this summer-themed cake easy. Perfect for beach or poolside events, it’s one way to make a splash in a flash.
What a Surprise Package! Cake
When you think outside the box, expect spectacular results. Cleverly convert a Sports Ball Pan cake into a baby’s noggin; set it “inside” a 3-layer 8 in. Square Pancake turned into a gift box with a cake-board lid, piped-icing details and a paper gift tag.
