First Down and Fun Football Cake
Additional Information
Step 1
Make cake. Prepare batter following recipe directions. Bake and cool 1-layer cake, 3 in. high. Place cake on cake circle.
Step 2
Ice cake. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe directions. Tint portions green and brown. Reserve remaining white. Use spatula and green icing to ice cake smooth.
Step 3
Decorate cake. Use toothpick to mark a football shape, 4 in. x 2 in., on top of cake. Use white icing in cut decorating bag to pipe football-shaped mound within mark. Use tip 16, cut disposable decorating bag and brown icing to pipe stars on mound. Use tip 3, cut disposable decorating bag and white icing to pipe lines and laces. Use tip 233, cut disposable decorating bag and green icing to pipe grass around football. Use tip 3, cut disposable decorating bag and green icing to pipe bead bottom border.
Products
5 cups of your Favorite cake recipe or mix
Leaf Green Icing Color
Lemon Yellow Icing Color ((Combine Leaf Green with Lemon Yellow for green shown))
Brown Icing Color
Red-Red Icing Color ((Combine Brown with Red-Red for brown shown))
Products
8 x 3 in. Round Pan
Toothpick
food-safe scissors
12 in. Disposable Decorating Bags
The bead shape makes impressive borders outlines and accents on letters and designs; also a cute trim on clothing and gingerbread houses. The basis for making piped hearts and figure piping.
The grass tip creates the most celebrated, easily accomplished decorations! The serrated edges of the grass tip makes ridges in the icing as you squeeze it out. Our step-by-step video shows you how!
The star tip creates the most celebrated, easily accomplished decorations! The serrated edges of the star tip make ridges in the icing as you squeeze it out. Because fill in requires so much piping from the same bag, keep replenishing icing in bag.