A delicious cake is a wonderful gift for a loved one. Looking at all these beautiful works of art, it is easy to feel intimidated, thinking these designs must be really difficult to achieve. But this is not the case. You can create something really wonderful regardless of your skill level.
Procedure for making a football pitch cake
To bake a cake like this, you need to pay special attention to the layout of the field. For real football fans, this detail will be of great importance. In addition, you need to install football pitch cake decorations: a goal post, a ball, sugar figures of players, and other attributes.
Below are detailed cake recipes with descriptions of how to create this design from the use of fondant and butter cream. There are separate instructions for creating the goal posts and the ball.
How to make cake “Football field” using fondant?
Usually, fondant is a design used for sponge cakes. They are juicy and quite thick, which allows for the creation of beautiful 3D images. You can bake a classic sponge cake or make it with butter cream. This, of course, will add calories, but in terms of taste, the result will be worth it. However, there is one secret, you can make a cream with less fat by using sour cream instead of full cream milk.
The following ingredients are required for a sponge cake:
- 9 eggs;
- 300 g of sugar;
- 300 g of butter;
- 360 g of flour;
- 5 g of salt.
For the butter cream:
- 550 g condensed milk;
- 650 g of butter;
- 20 g of vanilla sugar.
For fondant:
- 100 g of marshmallow;
- 300 g of powdered sugar;
- 20 g of butter;
- 10 ml of lemon juice.
In addition, you will need green food colouring, sweet tea or fruit syrup and white chocolate.
It may take up to 6 hours to prepare the cake, taking into account the preparation of the cream and the cooling of the cakes.
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Step-by-step master class of baking and assembling the football pitch cake:
- First, you need to bake several sponge cakes in the form of a rectangle. Beat softened butter at room temperature and half of the sugar until you get a lush consistency.
- Mix the second half of the sugar with the yolks. Combine the yolks and oil mixture, whisk it all together to get a light, fluffy mass.
- Pour ¾ of the flour into the dough and mix with a special dough nozzle.
- Whip the egg whites with salt until you get a medium consistency. Gently transfer this to the dough and stir, then add the remaining flour and mix again.
- Bake a cake in a rectangular shape.
- For the cream, whip butter with vanilla sugar and condensed milk. A small amount of green food coloring can be added to the cream. Leave it in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
- The marshmallow should be melted using hot steam with lemon juice and butter. Then the powdered sugar is sifted to them and mixed. In the process of mixing, add the green food colouring of the desired intensity.
- When all the ingredients of the cake are ready you can start assembling it. The cakes should be covered in syrup. Smear them with cream, cover and smoothen the sides and top. The keep the cake in the fridge for an hour.
- Roll out the green mixture and transfer it onto the cake, straighten the corners and cut off the excess.
- Begin to design the field. This can be done in two ways: draw on it with melted white chocolate or cut out some of the white fondant. Set the posts and ball, and you can also build the players.
Recipe for sponge cake with butter cream
For the foundation of the cake, you can bake a butter sponge cake or use another recipe. Below is one of such options. Butter cream will be used for the design (it keeps the form better).
You need the following ingredients for butter cake:
- 10 eggs;
- 720 g of granulated sugar;
- 400 ml of sour cream;
- 400 g of butter;
- 180 g of cocoa powder;
- 10 g of soda;
- 640 g of flour.
For the cream we will need:
- 680 g of condensed milk;
- 750 g of butter;
- food coloring.
This “Football field” cake will take about 2 and a half hours to be completed.
Step-by-step recipe for a cake in the form of a football pitch:
- Beat the eggs and the sugar, then add sour cream, soda, melted butter, flour. Divide the dough into two parts. Add cocoa in one, and leave the second as is;
- Pour both doughs into a rectangular baking tray. Alternate the colours (white and brown);
- Put the cake in the oven for 30-40 minutes at 200 degrees. When it is baked and cooled begin designing;
- Mix butter with condensed milk. Divide cream into two parts. Add green colouring to one;
- Assembling: smear the cakes, smooth the side surfaces and top with cream. Put the cake in the fridge for some time, and then you can decorate it;
- If you have a confectioner’s syringe and special nozzle, then you can fill the surface of the cake by putting the white and green cream in accordance with the picture of the football field;
- If you don’t have these special devices, you can decorate the cake with butter cream in another way. Cover the cake with white cream. Cut out the template of the football field layout according to the size of the cake, place the marking on the cake and put the green cream on the empty spaces. Sprinkled green coconut shavings on it to give it a grassy look. To complete the decor set the ball and goal posts.
How to decorate football pitch cake?
The main elements of the football pitch decor are goal posts and ball.
A ball
To make a ball you need scraps of biscuit dough, which you might end up having after you have assembled your cake.
Grind the dough into a crumb, mix with cream and form a ball. Then you can proceed in different ways:
- Cover the ball with white fondant, then draw black pentagons on it or make a black fondant, cut out into the required shapes and stick the shapes on top of the white to make the composition look more like a soccer ball;
- Dip the figure into molten white chocolate. When it is solidified, draw a dark-colored chocolate glaze on it to simulate the ball.
Goal posts
Cut three equal pieces of straws or bamboo skewers. Cut the fourth piece which will cut across the width of the remaining three.
Lay the four pieces out on a flat work surface to form the goal post shape. Glue the pieces together with hot glue or tacky glue. Let them set until the glue dries completely. Position the posts as close to the cake’s edges as possible.
It may seem like the process of baking a football pitch cake is rather complicated but believe us it is worth it. Your heart will melt when you will see the joyful look and smile on the face your child. Give one of these recipes a try.
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Source: Zenithblog.com
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