Has anyone made a football themed Birthday cake?

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Have promised DS I would make one for his Birthday this coming Saturday. Does anyone have any ideas I could use, should I use ready to roll or butter icing? What would you use for goalposts? I'm off to Tesco in a min so would really apperciate any help so I can get any ingredients that I haven't already got.

I have left it late I know but we have been away & only came back last night, that's my excuse anyway

For a field cake I would ice with ready made betty crocker butter icing tinted green, if you have time tint some dessicated coconut green and sprinkle over for grass, and either use plastic bendy drinking straws for goalposts or chocolate fingers. Add plastic footballers and football, and decorate the edges with smarties/pick n mix. Job done.

That sound fab James, I think I could manage that, love the dessicated coconut for grass idea, thank you !

I've also seen them made to look like football - round cake, cover in hexagons of black and white rolled icing. Might depend on your ds age - the pitch is much more funner for younger ones, if he is nearer 10 I think the ball might be 'cooler'.

'much more funner' - read 'more fun'!

He will be nine do you mean round as in flat circle or round as in ball, if the latter, how would you make that ?

I guess if you wanted to make a ball cake (you can buy football shaped cake moulds but I bet they'd be expensive) the easiest way would be to either use a large pudding basin OR make a tall round cake using two or three sponges sandwiched together with jam/buttercream, then carve it into half a ball shape. You'd probably need to coat the cake in a layer of warmed jam to make the ready rolled icing sheet stick. Then I guess make some black icing/marzipan and cut it into pentagons.

Or if it's easier, make a couple of big cakes and piece them together to make a tshirt shape, and make his favourite team's football shirt.

I meant round as in a flat circle - just a regular sponge - it's the fancy icing that made it look good.

Alternatively you cold buy a mould like this

It's all getting a bit complicated for me! The cake has just come out of the oven, just need to decide what to do with it now I love the football mould jicky, too late for me to order one now though, party is on Saturday. I like the idea of the football shirt shape one too but DS is insisting on a pitch with Stevie G as I had promised him. Might have to go shopping tomorrow to see if they do a playmobil footballer as I don't think my skills run to little men made out of icing
thanks for your ideas ladies.

I bought a set of footballers/goals/ball to go on the top of my son's football cake. You can definitely get them in specialist shops that sell cake decorations, ribbons, icing etc but I think I've also seen them in my local supermarket.
I used roll out green icing and one of those icing writing sets to mark out the pitch.

look at pics on profile

sainsburys and tesco sell a pack of little football candles aswell, that might be a nice touch.

There are loads of playmobil footballers - shouldn't be a problem.

I managed to get football candles in Tesco last night, am going shopping in a min to try & find the rest, fingers crossed