Football 54 Cakes

Win or lose, the favorite football player in your life will love these cakes featuring his jersey number. Any number easily becomes a cake using the Wilton Countless CelebrationsTM Cake Pan Set, with special pan inserts and easy to follow illustrations. Best of all, any number can be easily decorated like the field and game ball, using icing tinted with the Wilton Color Right Performance Color System and the simple instructions below.

Total Time7 Hours
Amount26 Servings

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Bake cakes. Follow pan instructions to create “5” with pan inserts. Fill pan two-thirds full with batter. Bake and cool. Repeat for “4” cake.
Prepare cake board. Using cakes as patterns, cut cake boards 1 in. larger than cakes; wrap in foil.
Tint icing. Follow formula below. Fit disposable decorating bag with coupler and tip 5 and fill with white icing.
Use Color Right base colors and QuickCount color formula to tint icing in the following shade:
- Spring Green = 4 cups icing + 6 B + 30 Y
- Winter Brown = 4 cups white icing + 2BK + 52 BR + 16 C + 10 O
- Reserve 1 cup icing white
Ice cakes. Ice “5” cake smooth with green icing. Ice “4” cake smooth with brown icing. Place remaining tinted icing in separate decorating bags fitted with tip 5.
Decorate field cake. Pipe long tip 5 white lines across green cake for 5 and 10 yard markings; pipe shorter white yard marker lines. Pipe tip 5 green bead bottom border.
Decorate football cake. Change tip on decorating bag with white icing to tip 12. Pipe curved lines at top and bottom of cake, and stitched lines on cake center. Pipe tip 5 brown bead bottom border.