Cheer For Your Favorite Team Cake

Be a hit at your next tailgating event with this football cake.  The crowd shown in the photograph of the cake is simply made with different colors of sprinkles.  Whatever your favorite team colors are, add that to the cake and before you know it, your football cake is ready for the tailgating party!  Instead of piping Happy Birthday on the cake like the one in the photo shows, pipe whatever your favorite Football Teams name on the top of the cake.

Utensils Needed:

2 Rectangle Baking Pans
Electric Mixer
Large Mixing Bowl
Measuring Cups
Decorating Bags
Decorating Tips:  #3 & #16 and #133 (to make grass on field)
Large Mixing Bowl for Icing
Spoons
Cardboard (big enough to fit the cake on)
Aluminum Foil
Cooling Trays
Scissors
Desired Food Paste Colors
Large Kitchen Knife
Offset Spatula for Icing Cake Smooth

Ingredients Needed:

2 Boxes Of Your Favorite Flavor of Cake Mix
Eggs
Oil
Water  (always use cold water)
Crisco
Colorful Sprinkles
A couple of plastic sucker sticks (for the football goal)

2 Recipes for Buttercream Icing.  (the recipe for the icing is on my blog)

Directions:

Prepare the baking pans and set aside.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix up both boxes of the cake mix.  Pour into prepared pans.  Bake as
directed on the back of the cake mix.  Cool the cakes around 10 - 15
minutes before trying to remove them from the baking pans.  Cool cakes
completely.

Cover cardboard with aluminum foil.  Trim top of cakes where that they will
be flat when iced.  Ice both cakes smooth with white buttercream icing, being
sure to put plenty of icing in the middle of the cake.  Then decorate cake as
desired.  Use tip #16 to pipe around the outside edges of the cake, and to
also write the football teams name on it (both top and bottom).  Use tip #133
to pipe the grass area (tinted green) on the football field.  Use tip #3 to pipe the
lines onto the football field.  Cut the sucker sticks and glue them together with
buttercream frosting.  Lay the sticks on wax paper until dried.  Carefully place
on cake.  Touchtown, your cake is ready for the tailgating party!