Hi everyone! I have a cake to do for the superbowl. It needs to look like a football covered in fondant with the steelers logo. I've never really covered anything but round cakes in fondant and haven't done too many carved cakes...any suggestions on how to cover it without seams and how to make it smooth. I need to make this cake as perfect as possible! Any help is appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Well, footballs have seams, so make that work in your favor! Carve a dense cake, ice it in buttercream, smooth the buttercream, and then put your fondant on. Personally, I would do the bottom half, invert it, and then cover the top half. Use a Dresden tool to help manipulate the seams in the fondant to appear like the seams in a real football. Then add all the other details.

Thanks Cakepro! It took a couple of tries but I finally got the fondant on and smooth!

here was the finished results:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1308812.html

Wow, that turned out awesome!! Great job!

I'm wondering about the Wilton football pan...alot of people seem to carve the ball shape instead of using the pan (which I thought would be easier)...any thoughts on this?

btw, great cake...it looks very realistic.

Your cake is one of the best football cakes i have seen, well done!!!!!!

Thanks for the compliments! It came out so much better than I had thought it would, I was so proud

About the ball pan-I just don't have the $ to buy different pans for shaped cakes, which is why I carved it. It was pretty easy to shape...

I see...makes sense. I thought maybe the cake didn't turn out right or something when using the pan.

Your cake turned out perfect! How did you do the diamonds on thelogo?

I love your cake you did a great job. I may have to try it sometime.

Excellent, and it looks so real!

Hi,

I need to do a cake similar to this. Did you cover it with fondent in pieces or as once big piece.
Was is hard not to get creases on the end where it all gathers??