Plaaaaaaaay ball!
It’s World Series time in North America, and if you don’t know what that means, its Major League Baseball’s final show down of the top two teams of the season. I’ve never been much of a baseball fan, but around this time of year, something makes me what to watch the World Series. It must be the hype and excitement!
I never played baseball growing up as a kid- I was a soccer player- but I did have one exciting incident back in grade four or five where I learned to “watch the ball” the hard way. The last thing I remember is hearing “Jenn, watch the ball!” being yelled at me by my dad (he was my Gym teacher), and then WHACK. Ball right in the back of the head. Ouch.
This cake is made easy because there is no carving involved. I was shopping at the Bulk Barn (as I do pretty much everyday) and I saw this 3D ball mold. At the time, I didn’t have a specific cake in mind, but I bought it anyway. When I finally realized the baseball season was coming to an end, to celebrate the World Series, I decided to use the pan to make a 3D baseball! There are so many other sports balls that it can be used for as well. I’m looking forward to making basketball, golf balls, soccer balls and more baseballs with this pan. I also used one of the domes to make the spider body in the 3D spider web cake I made a couple of videos ago (shocker!!!).
When decorating a cake with the star tip method, it does take a lot of time . . . and pain if you have tendinitis like I do (too much cake decorating!). I love the final look of this type of cake though . . . it’s worth the pain!
For this cake, I wanted to add a second element beyond the ball for a more complete cake. That is where the idea for the field came in. The ball can stand alone if you don’t want to have the additional element (or work), but I think that it “completes” the cake.
Good luck to the final teams in the World Series this year! And to those of you who are ending your baseball seasons as well.
3D Baseball Cake
Ingredients/Materials:
- Cake batter (6 cups)
- Sport ball cake pan
- 8″ square cake pan
- Green buttercream, tip 233
- White buttercream, tips 5, and 16
- Red buttercream tip 14
- Brown buttercream tip 47
Procedure:
- Prepare cake batter and grease pans.
- Fill each ball dome 2/3 full, and add remaining batter to the square pan.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 60 minutes for the dome cake, and 25-35 for the square cake.
- Allow cake to cool completely before icing.
- Cover square cake in green buttercream. Measure a one inch border around the cake, and pipe a double line with the brown buttercream.
- Add a thin line of white buttercream (#5 tip) down the middle of the brown stripes for the foul line.
- Using the white buttercream, pipe three square bases at three of the corners.
- On the forth corner, pipe a five sided shape for home plate.
- Using the green buttercream (tip 233) pipe grass over the green areas of the cake. The field portion is now finished.
- For the baseball part of the cake, cover one dome in white buttercream. Place that portion into the centre of the field. Apply a layer of buttercream to the middle of the ball. Place the second dome on top of the first dome.
- Using a cake rod, insert rod from top to bottom to stabilize the cake.
- Cover the ball entirely in white buttercream.
- Following the shape of the stitches on a baseball, use a toothpick to etch the shape into the icing.
- Alternating between red (#14) and white (#16) icings, follow the etched line.
- On each red star, add two more stars in on either side of the initial one to form the shape of a stitch. Repeat for all red stars.
- Cover the rest of the cake entirely in white stars.
- Serve when ready. Store in a sealed container in the fridge for 2-3 days.
Volleyball next!
Thank you for the tutorial! Just finished making this cake for my son’s eighth birthday. Very happy with how it turned out!
you didn’t said how much buttercream does we need for each color
Nope, I didn’t. It depends on how much you want to put on.
Made this cake for a good friend’s son! Wow – what a hit it was the entire party. Thank you so much for being an excellent instructor with great ideas. I have a picture to share with you as well.
My daughter and I love your tutorials! She would like to see a swimming cake -just a little challenge for you;)
Thanks!
I made this cake for my son’s 9th birthday, baseball party. It was a hit!!! I’m just learning how to decorate cakes and your video was so very helpful!!!
Kelly
That’s such great news! I’m glad it was helpful 🙂
I really like your cakes❤ please prepare dressage cake
Thanks for watching! I’ll add it to my list.