Delicious Chocolate Football Cake

Hi!

In this Instructable you will create a football (soccer) themed chocolate cake. The cake will have strawberry and cream filling and be covered in butter-cream and fondant. The cake does not include nuts, however it includes several milk products.

Above you can find a video of the process.

Have fun creating the cake and enjoy it!

For the Cake: (The recipe creates two cakes with the diameter of 20cm)
320g Butter

200g Dark Chocolate

250g Sugar

8 Eggs

190g Flour

30g Cacao

1 ½ Teaspons Backing Powder

Pinch of Salt

½ Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

For the Filling:

200g Whipping Cream

300g Strawberries

2 packs Gelatine

A bit of lemon juice

Tablespoon of sugar

For the Buttercream: 390 ml Milk

80g Sugar

½ teaspoon Vanilla extract

35g Cornstarch

250g Butter

1 egg yolk

For the Decoration:

500g Fondant

Green Food colouring

Black Food colouring

Red Food colouring

Blue Food colouring

Preheat oven to Top/Bottom Heating 160 degrees Celcius

• Melt the butter in a pot over medium heat

• When the butter has melted, add the chocolate and let it melt too When everything has melted set aside to cool

• Crack all eggs into a mixing bowl and mix them shortly

• Add the sugar and vanilla extract and mix well

• Add the butter and chocolate mixture to the egg mixture and mix well

• Add the flour, cacao, and baking powder
• Mix everything well, so there are no more lumps

• Take two 20cm cake tins and coat them with butter
• Divide the cake mixture between the two cake tins You can also just bake one tin at a time with half of the dough
• Put the cake on the middle rack in the oven
• Bake for 25-30 minutes
• When it is done take out and let it cool fully

• Cut the strawberries into small pieces (about eight pieces)
• Puree the strawberries Add a bit of lemon juice and sugar if necessary
• Prepare the gelatin according to the packaging
• Whip the whipping cream until stiff
• Add the gelatin and whipped cream to the strawberries and mix it all together
• Put in the fridge to cool
• When cooled put it on the cake, but make sure nothing runs out

• Take half of the milk and mix it with sugar, vanilla extract, egg yolk, and cornstarch in a pot
• Add the rest of the milk Bring the mixture to boil at medium heat (It will take a while)
• When it is boiling put it into a bowl and cool it at room temperature covered with cling film
• Mix the butter about 5 minutes until it is white and creamy When the pudding mixture has fully cooled off add it one spoon at a time to the butter
• Apply it around the whole cake in a thin layer

• Take about 170g white fondant and add a bit of green food colouring
• Always only add little bit off food colouring at a time
• Knead the fondant until the colour has spread through the fondant
• Cover the surface with cornstarch or confectioners sugar
• Roll out the fondant to a 3mm thickness
• Use the cake tin to cut out the shape tor the cake
• Add the fondant carefully

• Take 120g of white fondant
• Roll it out into the shape of a long rectangle, so that it fits around the cake
• Put the white fondant around the cake and cut off overlapping parts
• Create a template for a pentagon
• Take 80g of white fondant and colour it black
• Roll out the fondant
• Cut out several pentagons
• Place the black pentagons on the cake in a football pattern
• Attach them using the buttercream

• Roll out a bit of white fondant very thin
• Use this as the lines and put on top of the cake
• Colour two parts of fondant in two colours of your choice
• Roll them out and cut out the shape of a shirt
• Add them to the top of the cake as well

You are now finished the cake. I hope that you enjoyed making the cake. Enjoy!