football stadium cake, any ideas

[lucysmam]

how to make the basic shape?

I'm guessing I'd have to stack and carve a couple of large-ish cakes to actually get the height needed to make a football stadium.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what would be the easiest way to make it? I can manage the decorating it to look like the stadium bit, just not too sure about how to actually go about making the stadium cake itself!

I have a few months before it's needed so any and all ideas will be experimented with at some point to see if I can actually do it Thank-you for any suggestions

Have a look here. Step by step instructions!!

Macdog, I could kiss you!! That's fab. Thank-you

What did you type in the search to find it?? I've been unsuccessfully searching for weeks for something like that!

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cake making stadium design

Thre was also a lovely cake mould in USA, but I thought that was perhaps a bit much

oh, I've been trying all sorts, something that simple never occurred to me!

I have looked at that mould before, but it's £25 from a website I was looking at which is definately too much for a one off!

The one you found is much better & should be easy enough to make in the 'right' colours. & I have plenty of time to practise getting the shape right now. Thanks for your help, it's much appreciated

oh, I've been trying all sorts, something that simple never occurred to me!

I have looked at that mould before, but it's £25 from a website I was looking at which is definately too much for a one off!

The one you found is much better & should be easy enough to make in the 'right' colours. & I have plenty of time to practise getting the shape right now. Thanks for your help, it's much appreciated

I demand to see a pic of the finished cake !!!!

Does it have to be a footie stadium? A football cake, with chosen team badge in the middle, might be a tad easier!

I believe there's one on my profile!

Love the pony cake!!

They are all fabby

I will post a pic of the finished cake. It's not til July though, plenty of time to practise between now & then.

& yes Maureen, it absolutely has to be! My oh has bet me £10 that I won't be able to create Anfield in cake! So I'm going to do it to prove him wrong & get my tenner

Brilliant incentive! Good luck! You're defo gonna need to make a madeira cake. You need it to be as dense as possible for all that trimming and cutting!

Thought so, cheers. I'm going to do a practise run without the icing to see how easy it actually is to do, then smother in bc & eat it! Now I just have to find some teeny footy players & goal posts & a ball from somewhere to put on the pitch

They do lots of those in the cake decorating shops. Plenty to choose from there. Buy yourself a big makeup brush too! Seriously! Once you start chopping into it, there'll be crumbs everywhere and a clean brush is just what you need to keep everything neat.

Brill, I'll have a look next time I'm in town or get out to our closest actual shop. You mean a big brush like a blusher one or powder one or something along those lines?

Exactly that. It's soft enough to bend and has soft bristles, unlike a paint brush, it won't pull anymore bits off the cake.

I'll invest in one of those specifically for cakes then. Would a cheapy one do for the time being or do you think I maybe ought to spend a little bit more on it? I never thought about using something like that to get rid of crumbs, very good idea!

Nah! Cheap as chips one will do! Pound Shop. I just happened upon the idea once, when I was doing a cake. I'd just got a set of brushes for a pressie and never use a blusher brush and it seemed like a good idea at the time! Perfect for brushing off icing sugar marks from the board too and brushing all over the cake when its done.

quid shop it is then, will pop it on my list for the weekend so I don't forget. Thanks Maureen