1st Birthday Baseball Cake - baseball is done in buttercream on a fondant, hand-painted baseball field.
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31
Jan
09
1st Birthday Baseball Cake - baseball is done in buttercream on a fondant, hand-painted baseball field.
Check out this fabulous baseball wedding cake on Shelly’s blog – click here
You’re probably a professional and don’t want to share your secrets, but how did you cover that ball in fondant?! It looks amazing!
Thanks Kevin!
I’m not a professional – to this point I’ve just been doing cakes for friends and family. The baseball isn’t fondant, it’s buttercream. I didn’t even attempt fondant because it was for a 1st birthday and it’s always more fun for kids to get icing all over. To make it smooth, I let the buttercream crust, then used a few viva paper towels and my smoother tool (typically used for fondant) to create the smooth ball.
The base is fondant. I cut out the bases in 1/4″ thick fondant – secured them to the board, then laid another layer of fondant over the bases and then hand painted the in-field.
Hope that helps! Tina
Did you use gel color to paint it or like airbrush color? It looks awesome..you did a great job! I’m going to attempt one like it this weekend.
Hi Lacy, I mixed gel color with vodka and handpainted the field and the name. The laces where red gel (pre-made sparkle gel). Thanks! Hope your cake goes well! Send me a pic!!
Thank you! I would have never thought of vodka! I’m starting it tonight. Wish me luck!
Vodka works really well. I’ve used lemon extract before since it was for a kids cake, but it didn’t dry very well and as far as I know all the alcohol evaporates. One time in a pinch, I tried using tequila… ha. I don’t recommend it.
I’d love to see it! here’s my email if you’d like to send a pic: ptfagan@gmail.com
Just wanted to say I love this cake. I found it searching google images for a birthday cake for my son’s first birthday. It’s so hard to choose a favorite and I am going to try a variation of this one one using fondant covered cake for the base. Not sure how to do his name though, it’s Owen so maybe will connect the underline to the ‘n’.
What did you do for the silver for the name?
Thanks!
Thanks Gretche! I used a baseball-type font on my computer then modified it slightly with a pen, then laid it out over fondant, cut it out with an exacto knife, then I laid the cut-out name on the round cake pan with a towel & parchment over it (the towel to increase the arch – to allow for the thickness of the icing & the parchment, of course so it doesn’t stick to the towel) Once it was dried, I either used a touch of black or dusty blue with vodka to get the gray or mixed silver luster dust with vodka – I can’t remember which one actually worked best – keep an extra piece of fondant to test on before actually painting it. I finished the name when dry with some silver luster dust to add the final shine. You could start the “O” on the right bottom – with the line of the “O” going counter-clockwise then extend the “tail of the O” under all the letter to connect them. Hope that made sense! Good luck!!
I love this cake! Did you use a support for the ball? I’m afraid that my ball is going to roll off my board. How did you get it to stay on the board.
Hi Trish, Thank you!! I cut off a little bit of the bottom of the ball to give it a flat surface to sit on and put a little buttercream “glue” down before I put the cake on the board. Once I got it all done it was surprisingly stable. This cake had to travel about 5 hours away so before we left, I used round lollipop sticks to stabilize it on 4 sides so the first time we stepped on the brakes it didn’t go rolling away. If you don’t have to take it anywhere, cutting off a little cake from the bottom should work just fine as long as you can keep it on flat surface. Good luck!
what did you make the baseball out of. im planning to make this cake for my boyfriends birthday
Hi Jackie, I baked the cake in a sports ball pan from Wilton. You could carve it out of a larger cake but there is much less waste with the ball pan. The pan takes a 2 layer cake mix if using a mix. Link: http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E30ABD4-475A-BAC0-5B381DA1BA82E3D3&killnav=1 Good luck! Hope that answers your question.
Tina
What did you use for the base of the cake? And what size did you use? I mean the board that
you covered in fondant. I’m planning on making this cake for my brother’s end of the season baseball team party on Sunday.
Hi Ally, I tried to find the board but not sure where it’s at so I would have to guess that the board is about 12″ x 12″ because the baseball cake was about 7″ in diameter. My dear hubby cut it for me, sanded the edges then I drew out the bases in pencil, cut the bases out of fondant (to make them stand up higher than the rest of the field) and used a fondant/water mix to “glue” them to the board. Then I rolled out the top layer of fondat, spritzed the board with water, then laid the top layer of fondant over the cut-out bases. pressed it down, cut off the excess, then hand painted it. Hope that helps! Tina