How To Make A Football Cake

By Sinea Pies

Got Super Bowl plans? Hosting a bash for the Big Event?  What will it include--assorted appetizers, dips & chips and a kettle full of piping hot chili? Or, are you snuggling down for a simple evening at home with an order of pizza and wings.

Whatever your intentions, make the evening complete. Bake a Football Cake!  The cake pictured below was designed for a little boy's birthday but can so easily be adapted to celebrate the "Super Bowl" instead! 

Three-layered Football Cake

Super Bowl Cake

What You'll Need

Football shaped cake pan

Two 9" round cake pans

3 boxes cake mix
Frosting
Pastry bags for frosting
Decorator tips

Directions
Make three cakes according to package directions. 
Remove cakes from pans and cool.
Frost the round layers with the same color frosting,placing one on top of the other with a thin layer of frosting in between.  
In this photo, blue frosting was used.

Place the football shaped cake on top, carefully.
Frost it with chocolate frosting (video demo below)
Add piping and other directions.
Take a picture of your new work-of-art.
Serve and enjoy!

Below is a simple 2-minute video demonstrating 

how to frost and decorate a football cake.

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How To Decorate a Super Bowl Cake Video

Lessons Online From Wilton: Decorate A Cake, Cupcakes, Cookies and Candy

Where to get them: Football Shaped Cake Pans 

Note: oval cake pans can also be used for Easter Egg Cakes

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Photo credits: Football Birthday Cake by Samdogs on Flicker Creative Commons
More great cake photos by Samdogs:  Cakes