The best gift for a child on his birthday or any other holiday is a cake. Small sweet tooths love to have a treat that is not only tasty, but also beautiful. The Soccer Ball cake will appeal to even the most demanding kid. He will especially delight a true football fan. How to make a ball cake? In principle, this is nothing complicated. You just need to prepare the necessary ingredients and be patient.
To make a Soccer Ball cake, you will need 400 grams of flour for the test, the same amount of margarine and sugar, 7 eggs, 100 grams of almonds to be chopped, and 50 milliliters of milk. For cream, you need to take two tablespoons of cocoa, the same amount of water, 170 grams of powdered sugar, 75 grams of butter and three peaches. To make marzipan you will need one glass of almonds, water and sugar. And you will definitely need a spherical shape with a diameter of 23 centimeters.
Now you can make a soccer ball cake. To begin, beat the sugar with margarine and gradually beat 7 eggs. After that, add the almonds and flour, pour in the milk and knead the dough. Lubricate the mold and line it with baking paper. We shift the dough into a mold and bake in the oven, making a depression in the center. The baking temperature is 170 degrees, and the time is 1.5 hours.
Meanwhile, scald the almonds with boiling water and remove the shell from it. Dry the nuts and fry them in a pan. Then grind them in a coffee grinder. Mix sugar and water, boil the syrup. We spread the roasted almonds in it and leave it on fire for 4 minutes, stirring constantly. After that, grind this mass in a blender. It turned out marzipan. We separate the third part of this mass and add chocolate melted in a water bath into it. We wrap marzipan in a film.
We plant cocoa with two tablespoons of boiling water and beat it with butter and icing sugar. In peaches, remove the skin, scalding them with boiling water.
Finished cakes are cut lengthwise into three parts. Grease the lower layers with cream and put peaches on them, cut into pieces. The third layer, the final one, spread on top and spread with cream.
We get marzipan and roll it on the table with not very thin layers. Now you need to cut it into hexagons. To make a Soccer Ball cake, you need black and white details. Now you need to cover them with a damp towel.
We place the hexagons on the cake, like on a soccer ball. On the sides of the cake you can make a picture of green cream in the form of grass. The cake is stored in the refrigerator until serving.
For the base of this cake, you can take biscuit dough. It is baked in the oven according to the classic recipe. Two types of dough can be made : dark and white. We put a white sponge cake in the base, and on top we form a sphere from pieces of dark biscuit, fastening them with any cream. We decorate the cake with hexagons, which can be made from dark jam or jam. There is room for imagination. You can make dark slices of chocolate.
Examples of how to make cakes, with photos and detailed instructions are available in sufficient quantities on the Internet.