In order to please small and adult football players and soccer players, the basic skills of a pastry chef are enough. The cakes that we offer for consideration in this article are prepared from one of the simplest types of dough and will be affordable even for novice cooks. And here are the options for creams and jewelry of two types of complexity: simple and medium. Thus, no matter how the decoration method is chosen, both seasoned pastry chefs and beginners will be able to please their favorite athletes with a football-themed cake.
Soccer Field Cake: Cooking a Biscuit
The easiest way to make a cake for a football player is to collect the treat itself from several rectangular cakes and decorate it with a pastry bag (syringe) and a persistent cream of white and green colors, as football fields are usually marked out.
Cake cakes for a football player are preparing biscuit. In particular, in this recipe it will be “Zebra”. To make the dough, we need the following ingredients:
- Eggs - a dozen.
- Sugar - 4 cups (total - 800 g).
- Flour - 4 cups (also 800 g).
- Pack of butter 400 g
- Sour cream - 2 cups (total 400 g).
- Cocoa powder - 6 tablespoons.
- Soda - 1 teaspoon.
Beat the eggs, alternately adding sugar first. Then put the sour cream. Next is butter (melted). Add soda to the flour, mix it a little, pour this dry mixture to the whipped products. When the dough for a football-themed cake breaks and becomes homogeneous and without lumps, it will need to be divided into two parts. Add cocoa to one, knead. Lay the baking dish (certainly large and rectangular) with baking paper and begin to lay out the dough one at a time: a spoonful of brown, a spoonful of white, etc., until the dough is over.
We send a future adult or children's football-themed cake to bake in the oven. The fire should be set about slightly below average, since the biscuit should also bake inside and not burn out outside. We check the readiness of the test with a match or a toothpick, piercing the center. If the toothpick remains dry, then the cake is ready, and you can pull it out and wait until it cools to cut into 3-4 different cake layers along.
Cooking cream and cake decorating
Cooking cream from:
- Butter (750 g).
- Condensed milk (2 cans).
- Dye green.
Attention: not all cream should be painted green! The piece should remain white.
So, we put the “tulip” nozzle on the bag or syringe and trim the sides of the cake with white. We also draw white markings on the field. The gates can be made of white chocolate by melting it and then cooling the finished drawing in the refrigerator, or you can simply draw it in the form of a markup, as in the diagram. Easier, of course, the second version of the cake with a football goal. It depends on the professionalism of the confectioner. Next, add dye to the remaining cream and create the green shade we need. We cover the visible remains of the cake using the same nozzle. It will be grass.
Among other things, you can make a small soccer ball from mastic or order it at the nearest pastry shop, and then just put it on the cake.
Ball-shaped cake-ball: what dough to cook from
A football-themed cake can also be made in the form of a ball. To do this, you can also use the biscuit dough from the above recipe. If desired, cocoa can be added or not. There is no difference. Only in this recipe you need to use a spherical type shape, so that we get such a hemisphere. After the dough is ready, it will need to be removed, cooled, cut into three parts and spread with cream.
Cream for ball cake
For cream you will need:
- Water - 2 tbsp. l
- Peaches - 3 pcs.
- Cocoa Powder - 1 tbsp. l
- Butter - 175 g.
- Powdered Sugar - 175 g
However, you can use the cream from the previous recipe. It's just that this football-themed cake will have a completely different taste. Also, instead of green dye, cocoa powder is added here.
So, prepare the cream. Cocoa must be added to boiling water and mixed. Now - beat the butter. Without stopping the process, pour the diluted cocoa into the butter and add the powdered sugar. Beat until the cream is smooth and lush. Peaches are cut into slices.
Coat the cakes with cream and lay with peaches. Smudge the remaining cream on the surface of the cake without adding peaches.
Marcepan Decoration
Decorating this work of culinary art will be marzipan. To prepare it, you will need three ingredients: water (3 + 2 tbsp. L.), Sugar (1 cup) and almonds (1 cup). In addition, for decoration you need to have black and white chocolate.
Cooking Marzipan. Dip our almonds in boiling water for a couple of minutes. We do not need water, so we drain it. Peel the almonds. Now you need to rinse the nuts well and fry them for 10 minutes, constantly stirring. From sugar and water residues you need to make a syrup. Grind almonds into flour. In syrup, you need to heat chopped nuts for about four minutes. After this, the marzipan should cool down, and it must either be turned in a blender or in a meat grinder, then rolled up two lumps - one larger, the other - smaller.
In most, add white chocolate, melted in a water bath, and in the smaller - black. Both lumps need to be kneading properly. Now they need to be wrapped in tape and put in the refrigerator. After some time, when the marzipan is sufficiently solidified, it must be pulled out, rolled out and cut into hexagons of the same size. For a short time you need to hold the figures under a clean wet towel. By color, the decoration is laid out in the same order as on a traditional soccer ball. After laying out the hexagons, the whole cake also needs to be covered with a damp towel.
For a couple of hours, the finished treat (both the first and second) should be removed to the refrigerator so that the cakes are saturated.