Soccer Ball Cake

This is a vanilla butter cake with butter cream frosting.  I used two pudding bowls to make the two halves of the ball and then joined them together.  A little trimming of the cake was required to get it looking round, but the butter cream helped to fill in any cracks and give it the round shape.  The outside (hexagons / pentagons) are white and black fondant......I bought both.  I cut the white hexagons using my hexagon cutters (approx $10 for a set) and had to cut the black pentagons by hand.  The green grass is simple "rich and smooth" icing with green food colouring.

Tip:  Try and get the cake as round as you can before you start sticking on the fondant shapes to ensure that the edges of the shapes fit together properly.  The hexagon cutter was fantastic....it made the cutting of the shapes so much easier.  I wouldn't recommend cutting the white fondant by hand.