Making this cake requires a lot of time, effort and skill. But all of them will not be spent in vain - "Football Field" can be called a masterpiece of confectionery art! The base of the cake is sour cream dough with cocoa powder On the cut, the cake turns out to be striped - a chocolate-colored crust is surrounded by a snow-white layer of sour cream jelly.

But the most important thing about the cake is the composition placed on its surface. Its composition changes from case to case - each author can embody their design skills and build the football field of their dreams. You can limit yourself to a green carpet, a goal and a ball, or you can play a whole football battle here - everything is in your hands!

There are many recipes for fondant cake decorating. A good plastic mass is obtained from marshmallows - or, as it is also called, chewing marshmallows. It is not difficult to prepare, but it keeps its shape remarkably. Prepare it according to our recipe and please your family and friends with an original, beautiful and delicious cake with figurines of football players!

Football field cake recipe

Combine sugar, sour cream and vanillin in a container, mix. Soak gelatin in water and leave to swell (about 10 minutes). After that, put on fire and, without bringing to a boil and stirring, wait for the grains to completely dissolve. Add gelatin in small portions to the sugar and sour cream mixture. Stir the mixture constantly throughout the process.

Cover the baking dish with cling film. Pour the mixture of sugar, sour cream and gelatin, smooth the surface. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight. Prepare the dough. Break eggs into a bowl, add sugar, beat lightly with a fork. Add sour cream to the egg-sugar mass. Mix thoroughly.

Sift flour, add to the dough together with baking soda, mix. Pour the cocoa powder into the dough. Stir and make sure that no lumps remain in the mass. Remove the filling from the refrigerator, remove it from the mold and return it to the refrigerator. Grease the mold with butter, pour the dough into it, level the surface. Place in an oven preheated to 170 degrees and bake until tender (about 25-30 minutes).

In the meantime, prepare the cream. Combine sour cream and sugar and grind until sugar dissolves. Prepare the mastic: chop the marshmallows, put in a metal bowl, pour in water. Melt the marshmallows in a water bath - keep the marshmallow slices on low heat until they are completely dissolved. Then remove from the water bath.

Add powdered sugar to the mixture and knead until it stops sticking to your hands. Also check that the figures from your mastic do not creep and keep their shape. As soon as the mass gets such a consistency, wrap it in plastic wrap and leave it for a while.
Use a rectangular baking sheet for baking and filling - the field will turn out to be realistic! Prepare the chocolate for striping and gate making. To do this, break the tiles into slices, put them in a tight plastic bag. Heat the water and dip the bag into it. Hold until chocolate is completely melted. Take a piece of paper. Draw a gate of the required size on it. Cover the paper with cling film.

Remove the bag of chocolate from the water, cut off the corner. Trace the outline drawn on the paper. Bend the fragment with the "roof" of the gate. Place this entire structure in the freezer and leave for at least 15 minutes. Leave some chocolate for marking.

Remove the crust from the oven, remove from the mold. Level the top - cut the mound with a sharp knife. Set aside the trimmings. Cut the finished cake in half lengthwise. While the baked goods are still hot, brush the cut side of both cakes with cream. Set aside some of the cream. Leave the cakes to soak at room temperature or let cool and refrigerate.

When the cakes are soaked, collect the cake. Place the part of the biscuit that was on top down (soaked side up). Cover with filling (remove the film beforehand). If the jelly layer protrudes beyond the crust, cut off the excess. Cover with the other half of the crust. Its bottom should be on top - a flat flat surface.

Put the trimmings in a blender and chop, combine with the set aside cream and stir. Apply the resulting mass to the top and sides of the cake, smooth it out. Soften the butter at room temperature. Using a cooking brush, brush the top and sides with a thick layer of oil. Place the cake in the refrigerator and let the butter set.
The most difficult thing is to sculpt neat figurines of football players for the cake! In the meantime, prepare the mastic. Divide the mass into several parts. The largest will be made into a green field. One part will be white - from it you will make the ball, the heads, arms and legs of the players. Divide the rest into as many parts as you will use to decorate the figures. Think about what dyes you need.

Add the required dye to each piece of mastic. To do this, you can lightly press down a ball of mastic, pour paint into the middle and knead, or you can use a toothpick to apply the color pointwise in several fragments of the lump. This will distribute the dye more evenly. Prepare the "field". Roll out the green mastic with a rolling pin. The layer of mastic should be at least 2-3 mm thick and slightly exceed the size of the cake.

For the coating to lie flat, it must be thick. Using a rolling pin, transfer the prepared mastic to the cake and place it on top. Align the corners carefully. Do not be afraid to use a rolling pin for this: the mastic is very plastic, so you will not harm the coating. Cut off the pieces of coating that protrude beyond the cake with a sharp knife.

Mold figures of football players and roll the ball. Heat the rest of the white chocolate if necessary. Apply the markings to the field: borders, middle line, circle inside. Remove the gate from the freezer. Carefully remove them from the film and place them on the field. Place the figures of football players in their places. Place the ball in the circle in the middle of the field. Serve the cake to the table.

For mastic cream:

• 350 g butter
• 350 g condensed milk

For mastic:

• 700 g chewable marshmallows
• 100 g butter
• 1200 g finely ground icing sugar

Food dyes:

• Brown
• black color
• Green colour

Do-it-yourself soccer field cake with a mastic ball - a master class with a photo step by step:

Cooking cakes:

Separate the protein from the yolk.


Protein should only be kept in clean and dry dishes.


Beat the whites at low speed with a mixer.


Gradually increase the speed on the mixer and add sugar in small portions, beat until stiff peaks.


Add the yolks one at a time, mix well.


Sift flour to the egg mass. Set the mixer aside, take a plastic spatula or a wooden spatula.


Knead the dough and pour into a baking sheet lined with baking paper.


We level the dough and place the baking sheet in the oven, preheated to 170 degrees for 20 minutes.


We take out the biscuit from the oven, remove the baking paper from the biscuit.


We bake two more cakes in the same way. Always remember that the dishes in which you want to beat the dough must be clean and dry.
The first tier will be oval. Cut out a template from paper and cut out a biscuit on it.


Cut out two oval cakes.


And cut out two rectangular cakes.


Place the oval cake layer on the substrate. Saturate the crust with peach syrup.


Whip the cream with sugar and cover the soaked crust.


Cut the peaches into thin slices and put them on top of the cream.


Cover with the second cake on top. Soak the cake with peach syrup. We put it in the refrigerator.


Now we saturate the rectangular cake.


Top with whipped cream.


Cut the bananas into slices and put them on top of the cream.


Cover with the second cake and send it to the refrigerator too.
Soften the butter and beat with a mixer with condensed milk.


Cover the oval cake with butter cream, level the sides.


We also level the rectangular cake with butter cream.

We decorate the "Football field" cake with mastic:

We send the chewing marshmallows and butter to the microwave for 30 seconds, add the dye, mix, add a little powdered sugar.


Roll out the brown mastic.


Cover the oval cake with brown mastic, cut off the excess.


We knead the rest of the mastic colors.
Roll out the green mastic and cover the rectangular cake. We put it on top in the center on an oval cake.


With a plunger, cut out the green and brown flowers, cut them in half to make grass. Here your family can come to your aid. I planted my brother to cut flowers. He helped me a lot, while he was cutting, I glued the flowers to the cake.
It is very simple to glue the elements, take a brush, smear the grass with plain water and glue it in the right place.


Cut a rectangle out of white mastic.


We glue the rectangle.


Cut out the gate and the strip in the center.


I cut letters out of white mastic.


We twist a small soccer ball, glue it to the center of the field. I smeared the whole cake with a brush to give it a shine.


Such is the cake "Football field" with a ball of mastic. The customers liked it, they just worried that it was too heavy, that they would not have time to eat it. But in vain they worried, they ate very quickly.

We pack the cake in a transparent film.

Photo recipe for the "Football Field" cake made from mastic: Alena Glazkova.

Preparation

Bake rectangular biscuit cakes according to any recipe, choosing the flavor and filling to your liking (this can be cinnamon, saffron, vanilla, nuts, citrus fruits, candied fruits, etc.).

Align the cakes if they are not the same size and cut them lengthwise into several layers (depending on the thickness of the cakes). If desired, the corners of the cakes can be slightly rounded.

Soak the cakes lightly with the syrup.

Prepare any crust cream you like. It is desirable that it be thick and viscous.

Assemble the cake by smearing the cakes with cream and stacking on top of each other. In addition to the cream, you can use finely chopped fruits or chopped nuts, but make sure that they do not come out of the sides and affect the shape of the cake.

After assembling, carefully coat the entire cake with a thick, smooth layer of white cream (no fillers), smoothing the sides.

Put the cake blank in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours so that the cream thickens well.

Roll the green mastic into a large thin layer, correlating it with the size of your cake.

Gently transfer the mastic to the chilled cake, spread so that it covers it completely. Cut off the excess, glue the joints with water.

Roll out the white mastic and cut it into thin strips that will be needed to mark the field. To keep the stripes even, mark the desired lines on the cake with a toothpick or a stack, and then glue the strips of white mastic.

Install the finished gate. They can be pre-made from icing and dried, or from white chocolate (freeze individual parts, and then fasten with melted chocolate).

If desired, the cake can be decorated with balls made of small pieces of sponge cake also covered with mastic, player figures and other items related to football.

You can write on the cake with a food felt-tip pen, or cut out letters and numbers from pastry paste.

Design options for cakes "Football field"

We invite you to the selections:

Sweet pastries in the form of a football field will be a good gift for your birthday, February 23rd, or as a prize for winning a football match among children's teams. But not only children will be delighted with such a treat, older football fans will also appreciate it.

When making such a cake, you need to pay special attention to the marking of the field. For true fans of the game, this detail will make a huge difference. Additionally, you can install a gate, a soccer ball, sugar figurines of players and other paraphernalia on the cake.

Below is a detailed description of how to create such a decor using mastic and cream. Separately, instructions for creating a gate and a ball are given, since regardless of the method of decorating the cake (cream or mastic), the process for performing them is the same in both cases.

How to make a cake "Football field" from mastic

Usually biscuit cakes are decorated with mastic, since thanks to the impregnation they turn out to be juicy, but sufficiently voluminous, which allows you to create whole 3D models. You can bake a classic biscuit, or you can make it buttery. This will add calories to the baked goods, of course, but the taste will be worth it.

Additionally, you will need: green food coloring, sweet tea or fruit syrup for impregnating biscuit, white chocolate.

Step-by-step master class in baking and assembling a cake:

How to make a sweet "gift" from cream

For the base of the cake, you can bake a butter sponge cake or use another cake recipe (for example, focusing on the taste of the birthday person). Below is a recipe for Zebra cakes that are perfect for this cake. You can take a protein or oil cream for decorating, depending on this, there may be different techniques for decorating the cake.

The following ingredients are needed for the cakes:

• 10 chicken eggs;
• 720 g granulated sugar;
• 400 ml sour cream;
• 400 g butter;
• 180 g cocoa powder;
• 10 g of soda;
• 640 g flour.

For the cream you will need:

• 680 g of condensed milk;
• 750 g butter;
• food coloring.

You can make a Football Field cake in two and a half hours.

The calorie content of a hundred-gram piece of cake will be 397.4 kilocalories.

Recipe for a cake in the form of a football field from cream step by step:

1. For cakes, beat eggs with sugar, then add sour cream, soda, liquid butter, flour. Divide the dough into two parts, add cocoa to one, add the same amount of flour to the other;
2. In a rectangular baking sheet with high sides, oiled and lined with parchment, put both types of dough in the center with a tablespoon, alternating colors (white and brown);
3. Send the cake to the oven for 30-40 minutes at 200 degrees and brown the sides. Cut the finished and cooled cake lengthwise into several cakes;
4. Beat butter for cream with condensed milk. Divide the finished cream into two halves, paint over one of them with green dye;
5. Assembly: grease the cakes, smooth the sides and top of the cake with cream. Give the cake some time to stay in the cold, and then you can decorate;
6. If the hostess has a pastry bag (or syringe) and a small star nozzle, then you can fill the surface of the cake, depositing white and green cream in accordance with the pattern of the football field;
7. Without special tools, you can decorate the cake with butter cream in another way. Cover the item with white cream. Cut out the template for marking the football field to the size of the cake, put the markings on the cake and apply green cream to the empty spaces, sprinkle with green coconut on top and the grass is ready. Install a ball and soccer goal to complete the decor.

How to make a goal and a ball on the Football Field cake

Ball and goal are integral elements of the "Football field" cake decor.

You can make a ball according to the principle of making keypops or potato cake. For him, you will need biscuit dough trimmings, which will certainly appear during the cake assembly process, and butter cream.

Turn the dough pieces into crumbs, mix with the cream and form a round ball. Then you can act in different ways:

1. Cover the blank of the ball with white mastic, and then draw black pentagons on it with a food felt-tip pen or cut them out of black mastic and stick on top to make the ball more like a soccer ball;
2. Dip the workpiece into melted white chocolate, and when it hardens, draw a pattern on it with dark chocolate icing to simulate a ball.

The easiest way to make a soccer goal is to use chocolate (white or dark). To do this, draw the top, back and side parts of the gate on a piece of paper. Put the drawing in a file, which should be wiped with any alcohol.

On top of the file along the contours, apply a drawing of the net of the gate and send it to the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes. When the parts are solidified, carefully remove them from the file and glue them with melted chocolate. Give the gate a little more time to set and harden, and then you can set them on the cake.

For avid soccer fans, there is no better gift than a soccer field cake with a ball on top. The original Football cake is suitable for congratulating boys and men, it can be presented on or on February 23rd. Such a cake is made from chocolate-impregnated, layered inside quite dense, it turns out lush and juicy, and, of course, very bright and beautiful.

First, you need a rectangular cake based on sponge cakes and buttercream for the "football field". Secondly, you will need another round cake to create the "ball". In addition to these two ingredients, you will need:

• mastic of several shades - black, white, green (it is optimal to use liquid gel dyes, they color the mastic more intensively);
• special edible paper, lined with a football field, it is somewhat more difficult to make it from mastic, but you can try;
• scalpel and stacks for working with mastic;
• iron;
• rolling pin;
• silicone mat;
• icing sugar or starch for rolling mastic;
• two substrates;
• scissors.

If you create an inscription on the cake, as in our master class, then you will need a thick syringe with a nozzle.

Preparing two cakes

We will make the "football field" from a rectangular sponge cake about 35 by 20 centimeters in size, but you can vary the size at your discretion. So:

• bake one sponge cake;
• cool it down and cut it in half;
• now soak both halves of the cake with chocolate syrup, as shown in the master class;
• prepare a thick creamy or butter cream with condensed milk, first layer the cakes together, hold them in the refrigerator for a bit so that they stick together properly;
• after that, take out the workpiece, cut off the side uneven parts around the entire perimeter of the cake with a long sharp knife;
• After leveling the football field, you can start grouting: mix the rest of the butter cream with the crumb, which you make from the scraps of dough, completely coat the cake with this mixture or just cream, level it with a wide knife, put the cake in the refrigerator to set.

Our "football field" is completely ready for further decoration, now you can start preparing the base for the ball cake:

• prepare two semicircular iron molds, you can use ordinary bowls, grease them with oil and grind them a little with flour;
• make a biscuit dough, you can leave it white or make it chocolatey using cocoa powder, as in our master class;

• divide the resulting dough in half, pour into molds, bake two halves of the "ball";
• after the dough has completely cooled down, cut a little from the bottom of one half (it will be the bottom) so that the ball is stable;
• now lubricate the halves in the center with butter cream, press with your hands;
• smear the entire "ball" with the same cream and put it in the refrigerator for a few minutes.

You have got 2 blanks, the first will be to decorate the cake in the form of a football field, at this time the blank in the form of a ball should be stored in the refrigerator.

Prepare the mastic - absolutely any mastic can be used here, you don't have to do any modeling, all the corners in our cake are smooth, so both gelatinous and regular milk will do. For a cake in the form of a football field, you only need green mastic, you will need it most of all in volume, for a ball you will need two identical pieces of white and black mastic. Make it in advance, pack it tightly in polyethylene so that the mass does not wind up.

Creation of a football field

We will make a football field as follows:

1. Thoroughly roll out the mastic on the table, pour the gel dye into it drop by drop until the mass turns into an intense green color, reminiscent of the coating of a real football field.
2. We transfer the cake to a special substrate, align it in the center.

1. Roll out a layer of green mastic on the table, add powdered sugar or starch if necessary.
2. We wind the layer on a rolling pin, carefully transfer it to the field, release air bubbles with an iron, cut off the excess mastic at the base with a special scalpel or scissors, press the edges tightly, wrap them under the bottom of the product.

1. Now we need a special edible paper that simulates a drawing on a football field. This decor can be purchased at specialized pastry shops. To glue it to the surface on mastic, you need to lubricate the reverse side of the drawing with a special gel or syrup, release air to the edges with your hands or a sponge.
2. Then finally iron the entire construction-field.
3. You can place a gate along the edges of the cake, they can be made in advance from white mastic, do not forget to grease them with cream or special gel at the base so that the gate does not fall.

Now you can start decorating the ball, it will only take a few minutes, especially if you make the blanks for it in advance:

1. Remove the prepared round cake from the refrigerator.

1. Roll out a large slab of white mastic, cut a small hexagon out of the cardboard. Using this stencil, we will cut out pieces to create the skin of the ball. The smaller the ball, the smaller the hexagon will be.
2. Applying stencils of white mastic, we cut out several blanks, their number depends on the diameter of your sword, it is difficult to calculate, so it is better to do it with a margin.

1. We paint the second part of the mastic with black dye, roll out the layer in the same way and cut out black blanks.
2. Now we glue alternately white and black hexagons on a round cake to get the characteristic color of a real soccer ball. Do not forget to coat the back of each hexagon blank with gel, but if the cream is not dry yet, you can immediately glue the blanks to the surface of the round cake.

All that remains for us is to set the round ball on the field, having previously lubricated the junction with cream. Additionally, you can decorate the cake with figures of mastic football players, make a congratulatory inscription using cream and a pastry syringe with a thin nozzle, and also make a few more small mastic balls and place them around the edges of a large cake. For especially inveterate birthday fans, you can make the characteristic attributes of your favorite team - write a name with a cream, create an emblem of a football club.