Football season is almost here!!

Who do you cheer for during football season?? College team? NFL? This cake can be made into any favorite team.

Things Needed:
Square cake (two layers with filling in between)
Circle cake
Butter cream frosting
Fondant
Piping bags and tips 2 and 21
Food coloring green and fav. teams colors
(the picture is the two pans I used)

Time to start building our cakes:
1.  Bake cakes and allow to cool.  Add a filling to only the square cake make sure to level off each layer before adding the filling.  The circle cake you will need to make sure to level the flat sides add butter cream and push together.  Then on the bottom of the circle cake cut off a small piece so that it will lay flat.  Put into the fridge to have the frosting set.
2.  Pull out the circle cake and put a nice layer of white frosting around the whole circle return to the fridge.
3. Time to mix frosting: Green for the field and then two colors for the team.
4.  Square cake out now:  Take one team color and cover the top of your cake.  Make use to use a good layer of frosting.  Then go to your green frosting which will cover the four sides. Smooth out both top and sides well.

This second picture shows the tools you need to make a smooth butter cream cake.  The glass of water is filled with HOT water.  Place the frosting spatula into the hot water wipe water off with a paper towel. Start with the top of the cake by running the flat edge from one side to the other side.  Clean spatula and return to the water.  Repeat until top is smooth. Then start with your sides to smooth them out.
5.  Fill your piping bag with tip 21 with green frosting.  Create a boarder around the base of the square and the top edge.

6.  Fill your other piping bag with tip 2 with white frosting. It is time to make the markings for the football field. Make three or four short rectangles and fill in completely. Then make a long rectangle and fill in once again.  Repeat around the whole cake.  Then on the long rectangles you will make the yard makers starting with 10 going to 50 counting by ten. Place into the fridge to allow to set, 20 mins. will work.

7.  Now is the time for fun......or.......stress. :)  Remove both cakes from the fridge.  Look at a picture of your fav. team's helmet to see how the colors should go.  Begin to frost the base of your circle first, until you hit the half way line.  Now  be careful you want to leave white at the front of the helmet where the face would be.  Once the bottom half is frosted and smoothed over carefully place onto one corner of the square cake.  Cover the top half of the circle but remembering to leave the face open.  I then put that same frosting into the corner of one gallon zip lock bag, cut off the corner, and piped an edge around the opening for the face.  Place cake back into the fridge for five mins.  Once the five minutes are done its time to add a little detail work to your helmet.  Use a paper towel and carefully press about the colored part of the helmet.  This will give it a texture and used helmet look.

8.  Fondant time:  You will want white and what ever other color the team has.  I will be saying white or blue as this cake is the Dallas Cowboys cake.
Knead your fondant till it is workable.  Start with your blue.  Roll out a long skinny  piece for the stripe of the helmet.  Measure a one inch thick piece and cut evenly.  Start at the front of the helmet and center the stripe all the way to the back.  If you have extra cut it off and tuck it under the helmet.

9.  Also because the Cowboys have a star on their helmet I used a fondant cutter to make two stars for both sides of the helmet.  Using piping bag with the #2 tip I outlined the star. 
Now time to work with the white but set a side a tiny bit of blue to create two little buttons.  Knead out the white and roll just as you did for the blue.  This time cut out a 1/2 inch stripe to center in the middle of the blue stripe.  Then measure a one inch by 1/2 inch rectangle, place piece on the front of the helmet where the frosting and fondant meet.  Cut out two small latches with one rounded end (look at picture below)  Add those two small blue buttons to the latches and place on the cake. (tip: use a paint brush and water to help fondant to stick to each other)  Once I had this part of the helmet done I took a little mixture of water and edible glitter and painted the fondant work.  If you look closely to the picture you will be it shine.

10.  LAST fondant step:  The face piece to make the helmet look like a helmet. :)
Cut out two 1/2 inch strips of the white fondant.  Work with one piece to create a semi circle and place both ends into the cake.  I then add a little piped frosting into the inside of the strip to help it stand. Place into the fridge to help it stiffen a little (ten mins. at least).
Now place the other 1/2 inch strip on top of the bottom strip and once again add a little frosting to the inside.
Time to do your last cut, you will need two 1/4 inch thick pieces that are a little over an inch long.  Place these onto the front of the face piece and fold the extra over the top.  (look at picture below) Place into the fridge again to help fondant to harden.

11.  Now decorate the cake with "Happy Birthday", the teams logo, the teams saying, or whatever you would like it to say!!!  Then present and serve!!!  Happy Football season to everyone!!!