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Boys Sports birthday cakes

Published: January 12, 2006 | Updated: January 6, 2019 | By Ashlee

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We have 2 birthday’s this month. These 2 ball cakes are a lot nicer and cooler than last year’s ball cake! They were really different but both fun to make! The Soccer Ball was pretty easy, but time consuming. *trick alert* when trying to achieve black frosting start with chocolate, then add the icing powder. Also, only work with a little bit of icing at a time. A little goes a long way.

sports ball birthday cakes

The Fondant inlay cake was much more time consuming. For this one I covered it with a thin layer of fondant first, then rolled out different colors, used cookie cutters to get the shape of the ball and start laying then on the cake. When 2 would over lap I’d decide which part I wanted to show and cut the other one off.

And to stick it to the cake you use CLEAR vanilla. It makes the fondant tacky and evaporates, leaving a pretty good glue. *trick alert* for the black and red on the balls I mixes a bit of coloring in with some clear vanilla and painted it on. The vanilla waters down the thick gell enough to paint with it, but since it evaporates, it doesn’t water down the color.

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  1. carol

    October 30, 2019 at 9:00 am

    Good Morning Soo!! Glad I Found Your Page, Can I Ask some questions, did you use a lot of icing to cover the cake before covering it with fondant, does it matter where you start placing the fondant cutouts first, top, bottom, sides?, i would like to make this cake 8 inch 3-layers if you had to guess about how many cutouts should i prepare,

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    • Ashlee Marie

      November 19, 2019 at 4:24 pm

      WOW! this cake was so long ago I really had to think about it. I use ganache under my fondant, but yes you can use any frosting you love. I actually covered it with a layer of fondant first and then attached the cut outs from there. I believe I started in the middle and worked my way down and around. And you need to do the cutouts as your adding them so they stay fresh and don’t dry out so I didn’t prepare any before hand, so I didn’t count.

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