Football Stadium Cake- Video Tutorial
In this free cake video I'm going to show you how to make a Football Stadium Cake! This cake is perfect for game day parties, football themed birthdays, and more!
We are going to be creating our football stadium from two sheet cakes.
I have to say—as someone who tries to avoid measuring whenever possible….making the lines on the football field was NOT a fun time!
Soccer fields are more my speed :0) — If you aren’t comfortable with piping lines, you can also extrude thin strands of white fondant instead and place on the cake.
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Notes for our football stadium cake
In the cake video, I am using two ⅓ sheet layers of white almond sour cream cake for our football field and stadium. The Durable Cake for Carving (yellow/white cakes) would be great for this also. You’ll need sprinkles or other small candy for the crowd.
I used a 24″x24″ cake base made from a ½″ thick square of wood ( had it cut at Lowe’s for about $5). This was nice and sturdy which is a must for such a large, heavy cake (as a bend in the base would have caused the crusted icing on the cake to crack).
I also used gum paste for my little score board, and fondant as a base for the edible images that I used on the field (so the green color wouldn’t bleed through the images).
My goal posts are made from white pipe cleaners wrapped in stitch witchery, but an even easier option is to just buy the football goal/players set at a party supply store. That just about sums everything up! ENJOY, and Go Heels! :0)
Sports ball cakes
We don't have many sports themed cake tutorials but we do have a Soccer Ball Cake. The soccer ball cake tutorial will show you how to create a perfectly round cake, which we then decorated like a soccer ball. However, you can easily change up the design of the cake for other types of sports balls.
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Thanks for this tutorial Melissa. Now is a great time to try this cake.
Melissa, what was the back board made of? I am doing this cake in a few days and I really need to know soon. Thanks
Hi there--do you mean the scoreboard? It is a rectangle of dried gum paste. I dried it, attached the lollipop sticks to the back, and layered on a blue rectangle of gum paste on the front. (then black fondant accents). I piped the score with buttercream but royal would be a good choice too. (I discuss the scoreboard at around the 23:45 mark of the video...at the end)--
No not the scoreboard but the end where the two sides attach...where you smoothed it. It looks like it has been built up to attach the sides to it. I hope I am not too confusing.
The Carolina end where the two sides attach, what did you do there to make it seem taller than the other end? I hope this is more clear ..thanks
Its so nice! My son is a football freak, would do it for his Birthday in March!!
Thanks Sadia! Let me know how it goes :0) --
@Nelsonaxis....I think I see what you mean. It's an illusion. The cake on the "Carolina" end of the field is the same height as the "Tarheel" end.
thanks
Im so excited to see this tutorial. A friend wanted a football cake for her fiance for his groomsmens cake and this will be perfect! He also wanted a helmet, if I decided to do the helmet and put on the middle of the field. do you think a straw would do as support or should i use a dowel? Thanks for the awesome tutorial!
Hi Sophie--Glad that you can use this idea! -- How big is your helmet? (Will it be cake or a fondant topper?) --I always play it safe--so, I would put at least one bubble tea straw beneath it (assuming it is small). If it is larger, treat it as if it were a cake and dowel accordingly (spaced out beneath the helmet). Do you use drinking straws or bubble tea straws?
Melissa - I have been asked to do a stadium cake for a Michigan fan. Where do I go to get the lettering for the endzones? I have an edible printer, is this how you did it, I mean on edible paper? Thanks Donna
Hi Nanacakes, yes, we used our edible image printer for this one. I just typed out the letters and colors that I needed, and then scanned it in.
I'm attaching my answer from the forums just in case you didn't see it re: the font--
For our stadium cake, Carolina & Tarheels in the end zone were typed in "Rockwell Extra Bold". At least, just now I scrolled through all of my fonts in Word and this is the font that seems to match.
If you have Word, you can type your team's name, highlight it, and then quickly scroll through each font until you find one that looks good. There were a few others that I thought would have worked, but this is the one I went with.