Football helmet

by carol merrick
(independence, mo. usa)

This cake is made from three 8 inch round cakes and and and three 10 inch cakes. The 8 inch are stacked at the bottom part of the helmet and the 10 inch are for the top part. After stacking the 8 inch I put a 10 circle of parchment paper on top of my 8 inch cakes and placed a 10 x1 inch round Styrofoam disk on top of the 8 inch cakes. Then placed another 10 inch circle of parchment paper on top of the Styrofoam circle then stacked my 10 inch cakes. I made sure my cakes were cold. Spreading buttercream between each layer. I then carved the shape. I put a dowel through the top center of the cake to keep it from shifting. I dirty iced the caked with buttercream, basically I mean lightly iced. Then covered it in fondant. I first covered in inside front then covered the rest of the cake. Smoothing it out. You can see where I added the white, that I just rolled out fondant and placed it on the cake. I didn't have time to make the face plate so I ran to the local sporting good store, (Dicks) and just bought the mask, it worked out great. Just make sure if you do that you size up the mask in front of the stacked cake so that you can eye the width making sure you are allowing enough room for covering it with fondant so that your face mask will slide on without tearing the sides of your cake. I found that spraying a lil pam will also help it to slide on easier. The stars and such are edible images and I printed out. You can make the mask out of gum paste, fondant mix but it does take drying time.