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Football Cake Pictures and Recipes
Now if you are a football fan and want the special cake for the game or you know someone with a birthday that want to make a cake of this kind for, you came to the right place.
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The idea is in place now you need the design, a picture of the cake and some decorating tips. The picture of the football will give you ideas about how to decorate the football after is it done baking. Take for instance you want to make a Green Bay Packers football cake. You know the colors are green and gold; you want to find a unique way to decorate the cake. Once you shape your football, take the picture and the necessary decorating tools and begin reading the directions while referring to the picture. You may choose a football field, football itself or a player of choice. Either way, the recipes and picture of the cake will be your guide towards creating the perfect cake. Making the football cakes are easy and require very little time depending on your decorations. If you find yourself looking at the football pictures and see something you like, find the recipe that you want to use to create the cake. I once saw a Vince Lombardi football cake that was spectacular; it was a football field with a picture of him on the fifty-yard line. This was a beautiful way to remember him. Football cake pictures and recipes here are for everyone to enjoy and make, even if it is your first time trying this adventure.
This cake (featured on the picture above) is fairly easy to make even without the specialty pan. This cake can easily be in a casserole dish. I have used an unusual combination pound cake for the ball, but there are no weight issues and there is no real reason that you cannot successful substitute whatever recipe you choose.
Materials Necessary to Bake and Assemble the Cake Cake 1 x Cardamom Walnut Pound Cake Icing Dark chocolate marshmallow fondant (Before adding the chocolate take out sufficient fondant for the white laces and the trim ) Your favorite light butter cream recipe (Use sufficient to cover the cake and then color the remainder green for the grass) green food dye Paper kitchen towels with an indent Metal foil to go under the cake #233 grass tip
Easy Cardamom Walnut Pound Cake Recipe
Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon ground cardamom 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups finely chopped walnuts 1 cup unsalted butter (at room temperature) 2 cups granulated sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 7 eggs 1/2 cup milk 1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar 2 tablespoons milk Method Heat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour a football shaped tin or the base of a glass casserole bowl. Combine 1/2 cup of the flour, cardamom, salt and walnuts in a bowl. Beat butter in a large bowl on medium-high speed until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Add sugar; beat until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in vanilla extract. Beat in eggs, one at a time, alternately with 1 tablespoon flour, beating about 30 seconds after each addition. Fold in remaining flour, nut mixture and 1/2 cup milk. Scrape batter into prepared pan.
Bake for 1 hour 20 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick insert in the center comes out clean. Remove the cake to a wire rack and cool completely.
Dark Chocolate Marshmallow Fondant
One of the problems with fondant is that it has for most palates an unacceptable taste, it is not easy to make ay home and commercially it is exorbitant, and there may still be taste issues. Rolled marshmallow fondant or MMF for short is an acceptable alternative. As it dries out in air it can also be used to mold figures and it can be flavored and colored. It does improve when it is made the day before that you need it keep it in the fridge well wrapped in plastic. It will be very hard when it comes out of the fridge you can either leave it to come to, or flash it in the microwave for five seconds on full power. If that does not soften it sufficiently repeat the action, but once only.
Many people report that it is very sweet, it is because it is sugar but to lessen the immediate sugar hit you can add two or three teaspoons of fresh lemon juice to the melted marshmallow. If you are using MMF for modeling knead in a little shortening. If it cracks whilst you are covering the cake repair the cracks with a tiny bit of corn syrup. Do not use water, as it is all sugar, it will melt. The amount of water in this recipe is correct for mini marshmallows, if you have to use large marshmallows chop them with scissors before melting.
The way the sugar is added is important, most recipes say put half the sugar in at once. If you do this and have added the corn then it will clump together. The sugar has been sifted to avoid it becoming crystallized, add the sugar slowly.
Ingredients
1lb white mini-marshmallows 2 tablespoons water 1 Ounce Bittersweet chocolate at least 65 percent cocoa solid (Lindt is ideal) 2 teaspoons corn syrup (optional) 2 pounds confectioners' or powdered sugar (approx. 8 cups or more), sifted twice 1 tablespoons natural or Dutch processed cocoa powder (sifted and added to one cup of the sugar) ˝ cup Crisco shortening or more as needed
Instructions
If you are using a mixer to knead the MMF, put the marshmallows, chocolate and water in the mixer bowl and place over a pan of hot water, make sure that the bowl is not touching the water or the chocolate will go grainy and spoil. Once the mixture has melted cool for about five minutes and place on the mixer stand. Add a little Crisco to the paddle attachments.
If you intend to knead the MMF by hand then place the marshmallows and water in the microwave for a half a minute, just long enough to melt them, if they are still not melted pub back in for five seconds and repeat this until they are melted. Take them out and very carefully stir with a wooden spoon, they are very hot and thin and accidents happen easily at this point. Add a little Crisco. If using corn syrup add now and stir with the wooden spoon or the mixer. Add the confectioners’ sugar one cup at a time, using the one with the cocoa powder in first and fold in until the mixture is not sticky before adding the next cup. When half the sugar has been incorporated knead by hand for about seven minutes, or use a bread hook on the mixer.
Whilst you are kneading dip your hands in a light coating of Crisco and knead it in. Use sparingly to start with, as the finished product will be sticky if you have added too much. Add a little more sugar once the last cup has been incorporated. If it is too hot to do by hand then use a wooden spoon. This mixture will become very stiff and resistant to handling as you add more sugar. Re-grease your hands and rework the MMF until it is smooth and elastic and pliable. The whole process of kneading working the dough and adding the sugar should take about seven or eight minutes by hand. If you are doing it with the dough hook then keep it on low and knead for about four minutes.
Assemble the Cake
Place the metal foil over a cake board place the cake un-iced and undecorated on the cake board and draw around it. Gently remove the cake. Using a #233 grass tip with the green icing, pipe the grass around the edge of where the cake will be placed. Hold the bag perpendicular to the icing surface; squeeze and pull straight up until grass is of desired height for a border. We are then going to work on the cake away from the board because the grass will be spoilt if the cake is on the final board. Cover the cake with the white butter cream whilst the cake is on a work surface and roll out the dark chocolate marshmallow fondant and cover the cake with it. Trim the icing to the edge to tidy the edge. Press a kitchen towel on the surface of the ball to make an imprint. Then roll out the reserved marshmallow fondant made before adding the cocoa and roll out and cut two strips to decorate the ball. Make the lace by cutting a piece of white fondant and laying across the cake and then lay smaller strips at an angle to it.
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