Can anyone help with birthday cake?

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My son’s birthday is soon and I want to give him a football themed cake. Iv looked at buying one but of course are quite expensive. It needs to be for about 16 kids. I’m thinking I’ll need a 7x11 inch tin? I don’t have a tin this size, don’t have anything to transport it in so will also have to buy something.... trying to weigh up the pros and cons of buying or making.

I was thinking baking chocolate cake, cover it with green ready to roll icing but I don’t have a very stray hand so worried about decorating it? How on earth would I get straight white lines for the pitch? Iv attaches a photo of what I’m thinking it to look like?

Iv found on eBay an a4 size sheet made of I think rice paper that has the lines etc on it but I’m worried about it not sticking to the cake properly or tearing and looking crap......

Any ideas?

IME the rice paper toppers don’t look great.
Have you checked out all the main supermarkets? They all do a range of celebration cakes, and they all have a football themed one - a ball or a shirt, not sure about a pitch. They are usually around £20. By the time you’ve bought or hired a tin, bought all the ingredients and decorating stuff, you’ll probably have spent that anyway.

Morrison’s football cake £10

this looks cute

Sainsburys £7

M&S cakes to order, £40 but huge and lovely

Or but a plain white “decorate at home” cake (Morrison’s, £6.00), and decorate with green dyed coconut and these type of decorations footballer cake decs.

I would do as you have said and attempt thinish white fondant lines using a stencil for the semi circles.
I have a used set of the goal posts and players - as in your picture - that I have finished with which you are very welcome to. Happy to pop in the post.
I have had mixed success with the rice paper embellishments. I used on recently that was on fine fondant and it was better than the paper alone so I would consider that too. The other thing could be to bake a large rectangular cake but restrict half to the pitch and have his name, age, Happy Birthday and candles on the other side.

Yes- I would take MrsPatrixkDempsey up on her kind offer. Then either buy or bake a cake, cover in green fondant and make the lines out of white fondant. Roll out, and cut strips with a ruler and a craft knife.

If you haven’t got a cake board big enough, use a suitably sized hard back picture book covered in foil.

Supermarkets often have big piles of boxes by the check out- you’ll find one roughly the right size there. Then just cover with cling film. Put the goals and players on at the venue.

You can buy really cheap cake tins that are fine for a couple of uses if you line them carefully with baking paper. Or ask on your local fb page if anyone’s got one rhey’ll lend you.

www.londoncakes.com/480/football-pitch-birthday-cake

If you know someone with a card Costco sell these for 14.99. They are huge and really nice.

@MrsPatrickDempsey thank you so much that is kind of you, he has a little football game thing that I’m just going to take it off and use that.

Thank you everyone for you help and ideas!

I have made cakes that size in a roasting tin before. Also you can add coconut to green butter icing to make it more like grass. IME butter icing is so much easier to use than getting fondant smooth