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If you're in need of a super cute Baseball Cake idea then you're in the right place!

You’ll be fielding compliments of all kinds when this sports cake comes up to bat. It brings out the kid in us all.

You may not be an ‘Ichiro’ on the field but you sure can knock one out of the park with an inspired design like this at your next party.

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ingredients for the perfect baseball cake

Cake - Choc Chip Pound Cake is a great choice
Filling - Cookies & Cream Filling is perfect
1 batch of buttercream
sky blue, yellow, red and brown gel food color
Green candy melts
Chocolate cookie crumbs
Cake scraps left over from leveling layers
ziploc sandwhich bags
Plate or board to hold finished cake

Cook's Note: Don't be tempted to substitute regular chocolate for the candy melts - it doesn't hold up well at all.

first steps to a successful Baseball Cake

bake the cakes and cool completely.
level the cakes and split each into two layers horizontally.
fill and assemble each cake on a separate cake circle and secure with a dollop of frosting to stop it from sliding around.
add a crumb coat - this is a very thin coat of un-tinted buttercream you apply to 'set' the crumbs.
refrigerate the cake(s) while you make the Chocolate grass decorations.

making Chocolate Grass

melt the candy melts in a microwave safe bowl for 30 seconds at a time, stirring after each interval, until completely melted.
using the back of a spoon, smear some strips of melted chocolate about 1/8 inch thick on to a piece of wax paper, as shown (below left).
let set for about 30 minutes then, using a large knife, cut randomly across the strip of chocolate to make small shards, as shown (below right). It’s that simple – now you have grass!

making The Baseball

take the cake scraps you saved and smoosh them into an ice-cream scoop (very technical term!) to make each half of the ball.
join the halves with frosting and frost the complete ball with white buttercream.

Baseball Cake assembly

divide the buttercream in to four bowls, with about 1/2 cup in one and the rest split evenly.
Tint the 1/2 cup bowl red and the others brown, medium green and leave one white.
frost the top and of your Cake(s) with the Green frosting.
Frost the sides of your cake(s) with Light Brown frosting.

If you’re making a tiered caked, this is where you stack the smaller cake on the larger one and secure with a dollop of frosting

place your Baseball Cake on to a plate or board now and secure with double-sided taoe to stop it slipping around.
Using a spoon or small spatula, press the cookie crumbs over the sides of your cake(s)
randomly place the chocolate shards into the frosting in varying heights and groups to form the grass.

put a few ‘clumps’ of grass on the top of the cake, as shown, for the ball to rest in.
position the baseball in the grass clumps you created and secure with a dollop of buttercream.
using a toothpick or skewer, draw the seam lines around your baseball.
snip a small hole on the bottom corner of a Ziploc sandwich bag and add the red frosting
pipe the stitching detail along the seam line you just made>
snip the hole a little larger then use the same frosting to pipe a few fat beads of frosting about one inch long, directly on to the cake, to form the bug bodies. Add a large round bead of frosting next to each of these, to form the bug heads.
snip a small hole on the bottom corner of a Ziploc sandwich bag and add the light brown frosting.
pipe legs and antennae on each bug, as shown.

You're done! Now go get a well deserved cup of coffee and sit back for a few minutes to admire your handiwork. Remember to take a picture while your masterpiece still looks perfect.

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