{"id":49976,"date":"2017-01-27T18:17:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T08:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=49976"},"modified":"2019-02-22T21:11:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T10:11:54","slug":"soccer-ball-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/soccer-ball-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Ball Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hrecipe\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200569-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"spinning soccer cake with video tutorial\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" data-wp-pid=\"49978\" \/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s how to make an epic spinning soccer ball cake in a few easy steps.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yfR9V9sh3sA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve now moved into our new Melbourne home and most of the boxes are unpacked. Unfortunately, the ones labelled &#8216;How To Cook That&#8217; are still waiting for my new kitchen to be finished before they can be completely unboxed. Dave and I have been super busy this week insulating, chopping, drilling and piecing together the kitchen. I covered up (photo below) but the insulation still irritated my arms, those little fibres always seem to find a way to get to you!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8041-550x687.jpg\" alt=\"building our new kitchen \" width=\"550\" height=\"687\" data-wp-pid=\"49993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8041-550x687.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8041-300x375.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8041-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8041-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8041.jpg 1932w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After several days of hard work, it became apparent just how long it was going to take us to complete the kitchen. We decided to hire someone to help speed things up. The big hold up now is the benchtops &#8211; they take two weeks to be made. After they are installed, we&#8217;ll need a plumber to connect the water and then, finally, we&#8217;ll be ready to bake! I&#8217;m so excited for the new kitchen, it&#8217;s going to be lovely. I actually filmed today&#8217;s video for you before we left Sydney &#8230; which is just as well or you&#8217;d have a cake full of sawdust and plaster board.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"fn\">To make this soccer ball cake you will need:<\/h4>\n<p>1 lazy susan (optional but needed if you want your cake to spin)<br \/>\n1 round cake board<br \/>\n1 square or rectangle cake board.<br \/>\n21cm (8.27 inches) hemisphere tin<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/chocolate-cake-recipe\/\">chocolate cake <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/buttercream-cupcake-frosting-recipes\/\">Vanilla Buttercream<\/a> (x2)<br \/>\n100g (3.53 ounces) milk chocolate chips<br \/>\n6 oreos<br \/>\n<span class=\"ingredient\"><span class=\"amount\">500g (17.64 ounces)<\/span> <span class=\"name\">white fondant<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n150g (5.29 ounces) black fondant<br \/>\n150g (5.29 ounces) desiccated coconut<br \/>\n1 Tblspn green liquid food coloring (or a few drops of gel food coloring with a tablespoon of water)<br \/>\nmilk chocolate for attaching the coconut<br \/>\nfondant cutting template (click the image below to open full-size.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/soccerballcakeannreardon.pdf\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-8.31.35-PM.png\" alt=\"soccer cake cutting template \" width=\"453\" height=\"265\" data-wp-pid=\"49998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-8.31.35-PM.png 453w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-8.31.35-PM-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-8.31.35-PM-400x234.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMake the chocolate cake as directed and pour the mixture into a hemisphere tin. Line the outside of the tin with baking paper to prevent it from overflowing.<\/p>\n<p>Bake at 160C (320 degrees Fahrenheit) until a skewer comes out clean.<\/p>\n<p>Once the bake is baked and cooled remove the paper and level off the top. Tip it out of the tin and trim off any browned cake from the outside.<\/p>\n<p>Cut a one inch layer, followed by a 1cm (0.39 inches) layer, another 1 inch (2.54 centimetres) and then another 1 cm (0.39 inches) (see the video for explanation).<\/p>\n<p>Place your bottom layer onto a round cake board and smother it generously in vanilla buttercream. Then sprinkle that with chocolate chips and oreos. Add the next 1 inch (2.54 centimetres) layer of cake, more buttercream chocolate chips and oreos. Add your top piece of cake.<\/p>\n<p>Cover the whole thing in buttercream smoothing it out as much as you can. Take a piece of acetate and run it up and around the cake to smooth out all those lines. Once you&#8217;re happy with it, place it in the fridge for the buttercream to firm up, about 30 minutes to an hour will do.<\/p>\n<p>Roll out some white fondant fairly thinly and then place it over the soccer ball. Lift and lower the fondant to remove the folds. Once it is smooth and you can see where your cake board is, use a knife to trim around just under the board.<\/p>\n<p>Roll out some more white fondant and cut out hexagons. Then roll out some black and cut around the pentagon template, if you use a pizza cutter instead of a knife it doesn&#8217;t drag the fondant as you cut.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200547-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"soccer cake ann reardon\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" data-wp-pid=\"49977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200547-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200547-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200547-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200547-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using a little water to make it stick, add one of your black pieces into place. Then surround that with white like you are making a flower. Cut a black bit in half and add it into the gaps at the bottom. Just let it hang over the base board and then trim it to size once it is on. Continue to add the rest of the pieces onto the ball in the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Using a skewer drag down along the join so that it looks like the soccer ball is stitched together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200573-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"details soccer cake how to\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" data-wp-pid=\"49979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200573-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200573-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200573-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200573-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Add some green liquid food coloring to your coconut and stir it through to make grass. If you don&#8217;t like coconut you could colour some buttercream green and pipe it on using a grass tip instead.<\/p>\n<p>On your cake board add a dab of melted chocolate and then an upside down lazy susan. Hide the top of the lazy susan by smothering the top (now the base because it is upside down) in melted chocolate and then sprinkling it with the green coconut.<\/p>\n<p>Add the ball into place, making sure it is in the centre. I used a little blu tac under the cake board to secure it. Then you can give it a spin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200585-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"spinning soccer cake\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" data-wp-pid=\"49980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200585-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200585-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200585-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200585-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also this week I collaborated with How Ridiculous &#8211; a great group of Aussie guys from Western Australia. I&#8217;ll put their magnus effect video below for you to see.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-svOj1Qgrbc?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2017 Reardon Media Pty Ltd. All rights reserved. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\">How To Cook That<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/soccer-ball-cake\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200600-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"soccer cake sliced yummy chocolate\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200600-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200600-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200600-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P2200600-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"49981\" \/><\/a><p>Here&#8217;s how to make an epic spinning soccer ball cake in a few easy steps. We&#8217;ve now moved into our new Melbourne home and most of the boxes are unpacked. Unfortunately, the ones labelled &#8216;How To Cook That&#8217; are still waiting for my new kitchen to be finished before they can be completely unboxed. Dave and I have been super busy this week insulating, chopping, drilling and piecing together the kitchen. I covered up (photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[31,2704,2573,952,1184,2705,2701,2706,2703,2702,281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49976"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88991,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976\/revisions\/88991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}