Yankee's Jersey & Hat!

by Sonja Cadovius
(Severn, MD United States)

This cake was made for my husband's grandfather's 85th birthday. He has been a huge fan since he was just a small boy. This cake was made in two separate pieces. The jersey was constructed from two 9x13 butter cakes. After the cakes completely cooled I cut off the tops to make it completely flat and level, and then sliced it width wise again so I would have four layers of cake. I then stacked them on top of each other with homemade buttercream icing between each layer. Then I cut off all the sides so the four layer of cake would be flush with each other. I crumb coated the cake and let the frosting dry. While the crumb coating dried I rolled out a piece of white chocolate fondant I had made two days earlier (I also made the dark blue fondant the same day I made the white). Then I applied another thin layer of fresh butter cream to the cake and placed the rolled fondant over the cake. I hand carved the yankee's team logo out of the deep blue fondant and attached it to the cake by painting a thin coat of royal icing to the back of the logo. I colored some of the butter cream to match the blue of the hat and piped thin lines to make the pinstripes on the jersey. I did exactly the same thing to make the baseball hat except I used round cake pan and hand carved the cake into the shape of the hat. Once I got it frosted and the fondant put on I took a little tool that looks like a pizza cutter and embossed the stitching on the hat. I cut out another smaller Yankee's logo out of white fondant for the front of the baseball hat. For the bill of the hat I used fondant and cut it to fit the rest of the hat, and embossed it to match the rest of the hat. And walla you have this baseball jersey and hat cake.