Footballers Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Paul comes up with a creative way to shape the football by layering the cake inside a half dome baking tin. Alternatively, if you don’t have the shaped cake pan then it’s a case of carving the half dome.

The dome technique turned out really well so Paul now starts to build then carve the cake to get the height and shape of the football. He then layers in ganache and places it in the fridge before smoothing it with a hot palette knife.

Paul now shows us how to cover a domed cake using the hexagon and pentagon templates. This helps give the football it’s distinctive markings.

NOTE: Paul later decides to cover the bottom layer of pentagon shapes with a scarf. It’s up to you whether you want to add them or not.

Paul decides that the lower row of the black pentagons on the ball need to be covered up so what better way to achieve this than to use a team scarf.

After covering the board he then sets about making a Spanish football scarf that fits around the bottom of the ball.

You can choose to go fancy with this. However, Paul makes the legs, bodies and heads of the two children using some very simple and quick modelling techniques.

If you are just beginning or in a hurry then this is the perfect way to get the best effect.

Paul finishes the models by adding their arms and simple facing features. He then moves on to decorating the football strip to give them those distinctive Spanish colours.

It’s amazing how quickly this design comes together. Here Paul finishes off the cake by adding the names of the birthday boy and girl and giving them a hairstyle they might recognise alongside all those important finishing touches.

Paul shares with you some other ideas for this type of design.

Prices, costs and overheads for this design. Everything a professional cake decorator needs to know.