Football Cake Covered In Fondant
Decorating By Chef_Rinny Updated 23 Apr 2012 , 1:13pm by Polarcakes
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
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...
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.
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??
This post is over 3 years old. The original poster hasn`t posted on the site in over 2 years. I hope someone else can give you advice on how to cover a football shaped cake. (I`d like to know myself as well. )
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