Cake Poppin Soccer Field
Over three class periods my classmates Sydney Day, Sean Looney, and I constructed an accurate representation of a soccer field. And the best part? it's cake! On the first day, we made the cake batter and the frosting. Our cake was flavored vanilla and the frosting was buttercream. On the second day, we put our cakes into the oven and colored the frosting from the day before. It was split into predominantly green followed by white and then black. Then after that, we took our cakes out for them to cool. On the last day, we cut the cake into the appropriate dimensions and used the rest for the cake balls. After we frosted the cake balls and the cake appropriately and it was all ready.
Supplies
Ingredients:
2 cups of White Sugar
2 ½ sticks of butter
3 Eggs
5 teaspoons of Vanilla Extract
3 cups of Flour
1 cup of milk
5 tablespoons of Buttermilk
4 cups of Powdered Sugar
2 tablespoons of Water
Tools:
Cake Pans - To hold batter when being baked
Electric Stand Mixer - To mix all ingredients together evenly and efficiently
Whisk - To whisk together dry ingredients
Rubber Spatula - To have better control over batter
Cooling Rack - To cool cakes and wait for cake balls to dry
Knife - To cut the cake into the correct size
Cake knife - For better easier transport
Instructions
Vanilla Cake:
Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 F
Step 2: Whisk together Flour, Salt, Baking Powder and, Baking Soda
Step 3: In mixer beat butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla extract. After a few minutes add the dry mixture
Step 4: Pour cake into pans and bake for 23 minutes
Step 5: Let cool
Buttercream Frosting:
Step 1: In mixer add butter, salt, powdered sugar and beat until fully mixed
Step 2: Then add vanilla and milk and beat until combined
Cake Balls:
Step 1: Crumble remaining cake and mix with frosting
Step 2: Roll into balls and coat with chocolate or frosting.
Step 3: Decorate to look like soccer Balls
Decoration:
Step 1: color frosting accordingly
Step 2: Coat the cake in green frosting
Step 3: Add lines and boundaries with white frosting
Step 4: surround field with cake balls
Conclusion
Overall my groupmates and I did an excellent job. Astetiaklly the cake was beautiful and we also received some good reviews from staff and students around Wachusett. However, our cake was dense. This is believed to be because of the lack of eggs available to us at the time. With all ingredients, the cake would come out with no problems and would be superb. Would recommend it to anyone who loves soccer and cake!