I decided I want to make something football related for the Valentine's

D

dawnnys

Well-known member
Day bake sale - it's the Saturday of Superbowl Sunday... at first I thought a cake, but now am thinking about cupcakes frosted with green icing and green tinted coconut (get it? get it? ground and grass - or make that Astroturf?).

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the football theme in there though? I'd like to put white stripes on top, but how, with the coconut on there? Fondant maybe? Thinking maybe chocolate footballs using wafer chocolate melted into candy molds footballs just placed on top of the "grass"? Maybe unwrapped Easter eggs would work and I could probably find those this time of year seeing that they rush the season so much in the stores. I'd like to get numbers in there too (if it's a cake) such as 50-yard line, 20-yard line, etc. Or decorate using Saints and Colts colors? Hmmm, so many possibilities.

Or any ideas to decorate a cake would work either. Thanks in advance!!

 
Some ideas....

Years ago I made a football sheet cake with the yard lines etc and found plastic goal posts and football players (they were like little green army men toys only football players) and did the endzones with team colors/names and the center with the SB logo. Bet they'd still have something like that given the time of year -- got them at Michael's. Oh and if you want you could add a penalty flag on the field... "Backfield in motion ba-by, I'm gonna have to penalize you...oooh-whoo..." Ok nevermind, the voices in my head got carried away with that.

I like the cupcake idea as I'd bet they'd be a quick sell. Not sure I'd do all coconut as not everyone likes it. Plain iced *might* allow for the idea of yard lines. But I'd prolly make a thin cut-out football cookie that I'd stick out of the top of the "field" for height. Some iced with the Saints fleur-de-lis and others with the Colts Horseshoe using flashy gold and blue icing sugars respectively to catch the customers eye. If you want to add some plain ones to the mix you might do a chocolate ganache "hostess" style cupcake only do an outline of a football with laces instead of the traditional squiggle - clean lined but oh so yummy.

 
I LOVE these ideas! Also thanks to Ang for the idea of doing an app for the day after, and

Gay for the other fun suggestions and cheezz for where I can get Easter eggs! I think I'll do a combination of them all (fruit roll-up flags are a very cute idea).

While I would buy the cheeseball, they tend to go for more traditional baked goods at that particular location. Someone made rice pudding and someone else made jello jigglers one year, and they ended up getting odd stares and were given away.

 
Now... calling all cake decorators - use Colorflow, fondant, or pipe icing for the

logos? Thank goodness these logos are pretty simple, and I want to get the colors right, but by all means they don't have to be perfect for this occasion...

Maybe just a swirl of blue or a swirl of tan/gold with a pennant and/or a chocolate football stuck on top? I'd like them to be cute, but don't want to spend a lot of time on these!

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DawnNYS/colts2.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DawnNYS/saints2.jpg

 
D, I think colorflow would work perfectly for this. So would melted chocolate (Whimsical bakehouse

style). Then pipe over the detail with thin royal icing.

 
Could you please explain in more detail, Mar? I'm not getting it - melted chocolate, Whimsical

bakehouse style? And where would the chocolate go?

Pipe over the detail with thin royal icing in the same color? or white?

 
You take your pattern, flip it over and lay waxed or cellophane paper over than.

Melt chocolate coating disks (sold in Walmarts, JoAnns, Michaels, etc) and pipe the outline, then flood the middle. Put in frig for the chocolate to cool and firm up. When you peel your piece away, the top side will be smooth. You can add extra details to that side then.
Whimsical Bakehouse uses this method.

You can tint the white chocolate with any oil-based color. If you have a candy supply store handy, they have all kinds of colors.

I've included a link where they made butterfly wings following this method. The flat side would be face down and the image is flipped over.

If you want to use Royal Icing or Baby Icing, use a thin tip and outline the border. Let it dry to firm. Then use a slightly thinner icing and flood the inside area.

http://www.cakejournal.com/uploaded_images/474053450_2d1a7586aa-703641.jpg

 
I see now. Use the chocolate for the border and fill in with other chocolate

Thanks, I just couldn't envision that. I made a Colorflow design a long time ago and I don't even remember what we used for the border, but I remember it was black. Probably special Wilton Colorflow icing or something.

I see now that you mean you could "color" on top of the chocolate piece. If I remember, Wilton Colorflow powder is quite pricey, so I may be trying the chocolate method... can you flood with just thinned out icing with good results? TIA

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top