If you are looking for Football Cake Ideas to make for the big game or birthday party, we have 35 fun ideas. These are easy to make and delicious too.

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These Football Birthday cake ideas are so cute and make a great cake for a football themed birthday party or your next game day party. They are easy to decorate with delicious white frosting or white fondant and chocolate buttercream.

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There are so many great ideas for any sports themed occasion. The cakes are easy to make with simple ingredients and effortless recipe directions.

1. Football Cake

Discover how to create a football-shaped cake without the need for a specialty pan by following these simple steps. Use a piping bag to create a 2-inch-wide strip to make the cake look like a football.

Football Cake
Learn How to Make a Football Cake without a specialty pan with these easy steps.
Football Cake

2. Football Cupcake

If you are hosting a Super Bowl this year, make these fun cupcakes. Combine a few simple ingredients to create these delicious cupcakes.

Football Cupcake
The rich chocolate cake and buttercream frosting combine for the best treat.
Football Cupcake

3. Football Field Cake

This football field cake is so much fun. You can adorn the top with your favorite team’s colors. Decorating the cake is enjoyable, especially using green food coloring to a festive football-themed design.

Football Field Cake
Using staple pantry ingredients, you can make your own Football Field Cake topped with green frosting and anything you like.
Football Field Cake

4. Football Stadium Pull Apart Cupcake Cake

This pull apart cake is fun to make with cupcakes. It looks like a cake once it’s decorated and transformed into a football stadium.

Football Stadium Pull Apart Cupcake Cake
Green buttercream frosting sprinkled with green sanding sugar gives the cake a grassy “turf.” Cupcakes topped with large and small nonpareils line the edges of the cake to create crowds of spectators.
Football Stadium Pull Apart Cupcake Cake

5. Mini Cupcakes with Almond Footballs

These mini cupcakes are the perfect size when you want something smaller. The shredded coconut looks pretty on top with drops of green food coloring to resemble turf.

Mini Cupcakes with Almond Footballs
Green food coloring transforms sweetened shredded coconut into edible turf for these spirited two-bite treats.
Mini Cupcakes with Almond Footballs

6. Tailgate Cake Pops

Cake pops are the perfect dessert for your football party. They are easy to make and always a fan favorite.

Tailgate Cake Pops
Instead, we use store-bought soft cakey sugar cookies. Since the cookies come pre-frosted, we use cream cheese as a binder in place of frosting to avoid making the pops overly sweet.
Tailgate Cake Pops

Cookie cakes make the best dessert and they are easy to make with football decorations.

Football Field Cookie Cake
It’s one of the most delicious chocolate chip cookie cakes you’ll ever eat! The addition of cream cheese makes it extra rich and chewy and lots of chocolate chips make it super sweet!
Football Field Cookie Cake

8. Gâteau Foot

Decorate a store-bought cake for this easy football cake. This is perfect in a time crunch.

Gâteau Foot
This football cake is actually super easy to make, you can even use ready-made cakes if you want.
Gâteau Foot

9. Hershey’s Gridiron Cake

Top your favorite cake with your favorite candy. It is the perfect decoration when you are creating a football cake.

Hershey’s Gridiron Cake
The turf is creamy vanilla frosting dyed green, while the starting lineup features REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup Miniatures vs. HERSHEY'S KISSES Candy.
Hershey’s Gridiron Cake

10. Sicilian Love Cake

This is a delicious cake to make for all your football parties. The rich flavor will be a hit.

Sicilian Love Cake
It's delicious, not too sweet, and the ricotta filling gives it a lighter texture than traditional chocolate cakes.
Sicilian Love Cake

11. Game Day Football Cake

When you cut this cake, you will get a surprise of chocolate candies. It is so festive and fun for parties.

Game Day Football Cake
A football cake that will fool anyone into thinking it's real. Cut it open to find chocolate footballs hiding inside.
Game Day Football Cake

12. Favorite Football Cake

You don’t need a special pan for this football cake. It is delicious and easy to make. I like to cut with a serrated knife to easily form the football shape.

Favorite Football Cake
It’s easy to make—no special pans needed—and is full of chocolate-y goodness!
Favorite Football Cake

13. Football Cake Pops

If you are hosting a football party or bake sales for your kids’ team, make these cake pops. They are so cute.

Football Cake Pops
Cake pops with a rich chocolate cake center and a yummy peanut butter coating. These are sure to be winners at parties, bake sales and sports-watching events.
Football Cake Pops

14. Easy Football Cake

We love making this cake for all of our game day parties. It is super easy and always turns out cute.

Easy Football Cake
This Football Cake is such an easy recipe to make for game day parties or football-themed birthday parties. Make a couple of single layers or a double-layer cake!
Easy Football Cake

15. Pumpkin Football Cake

If you love pumpkin desserts, then you need to make this football cake. It is a tasty twist with the fall flavor addition.

Pumpkin Football Cake
This adorable mini cake recipe gets its football look from simple frosting piping and fall flavor from canned pumpkin.
Pumpkin Football Cake

16. Everton Football Cake

Create this cake and decorate it with your kid’s favorite football team. The ideas are endless.

Everton Football Cake
It’s basically made of two chocolate cakes, sliced in half to make four layers. There’s regular chocolate frosting between the layers, and white chocolate frosting outside the cake.
Everton Football Cake

17. Football Surprise Cake

Surprise your family and friends with candy inside this football cake. It’s amazing!

Football Surprise Cake
It's super simple to make (we don't do complicated..) , tastes YUM and it will be the talk of your football party!
Football Surprise Cake

18. AFL Football Birthday Cake

With a little fondant and buttercream frosting, this football cake is easy to make.

AFL Football Birthday Cake
Cheer on your favorite team with our over-the-top footy birthday chocolate cake with buttercream and fondant.
AFL Football Birthday Cake

19. M&M Football Cake

Grab some M&M candies and decorate this football cake with your teams’ favorite colors.

M&M Football Cake
This cake is made from a chocolate cake and chocolate frosting and everything I add to both the cake mix and can of frosting are things you probably already have in your pantry.
M&M Football Cake

20. Game-Day Football Cake Pops

These cake pops are a must for all of your game day parties. Each cake pop is the perfect size for a smaller sweet treat.

Game-Day Football Cake Pops
Dipped in chocolate and decked out in white icing, these sweet, two-bite treats look just like the real deal.
Game-Day Football Cake Pops

21. Football Stadium Cake Pan

With a few simple ingredients including coconut flakes, flour, eggs and more this stadium cake is impressive.

Football Stadium Cake Pan
The mold is intricately detailed in structure with every cake-filled crevice. For authentic stadium decor, I mix shredded coconut with green food coloring for the grass and use spiral candles with paper cut-outs for the flags.
Football Stadium Cake Pan

22. Simple Football Cake

If you are looking for a simple, delicious and easy to make football cake, give this a try. It is so fun and tasty!

Simple Football Cake
See how easy it is to decorate this chocolate football-themed cake with buttercream icing using a grass piping tip.
Simple Football Cake

23. Football Cake for Large Crowd

This is one impressive football cake for your entire family. Make this cake for your biggest football fan.

Football Cake for Large Crowd
It features rich chocolate cake layers (that only need ONE bowl to mix up!) and cream cheese buttercream frosting (also only ONE bowl to make + 1 small bowl to color)!
Football Cake for Large Crowd

24. Football Cake Balls

These cake balls would be great served on a football themed serving platter.

Football Cake Balls
These football cake balls are easy to make, delicious, and perfect for tailgating, game day, a football party, and the Super Bowl! 
Football Cake Balls

25. DIY Football Jersey Cake

Surprise someone special with this jersey cake. It is a stunning dessert.

DIY Football Jersey Cake
It is a chocolate fudge cake covered in fondant with fondant and royal icing decorations, grass is buttercream and the football is made of crispy treats.
DIY Football Jersey Cake

26. Football Shaped Cake Recipe with Snickers

Take your box cake mix to the next level with this football shaped cake. The box mix makes it super easy.

Football Shaped Cake Recipe with Snickers
This recipe is more akin to a pound cake, so it will take a bit longer to bake than a box cake mix, and you should watch it closely.
Football Shaped Cake Recipe with Snickers

27. Vintage “Dallas Cowboys” Football Cake

Even if you are not a Dallas Cowboys fan, this cake can be made with any team. Just change the theme and colors.

Vintage “Dallas Cowboys” Football Cake
Helmet pineapple cake with sangria filling, middle tier is chocolate with Kahlua buttercream and bottom is just a plain yellow cake with buttercream for those who are not wanting anything with alcohol.
Vintage “Dallas Cowboys” Football Cake

28. Sheet Pan Football Stadium Cake

Turn you sheet pan cake into this stadium cake. The entire recipe is so simple.

Sheet Pan Football Stadium Cake
No special baking or cake decorating skills are needed. Simply slice it up at halftime and let guests serve themselves right from the pan.
Sheet Pan Football Stadium Cake

29. Football Cupcakes Cake

Transform football cupcakes into the best cake recipe. It is so easy and really fun for a kid’s cake.

Football Cupcakes Cake
Easy pull-apart football cupcakes cake, homemade with simple ingredients.
Football Cupcakes Cake

30. Dan’s Football Cake

Score big with this football cake for all of your game day parties. It will be the star of the dessert table and it has simple instructions.

Dan’s Football Cake
This creative cake made with stacks of vanilla rounds is sure to score a touchdown at any game day party!
Dan’s Football Cake

This chocolate cookie cake is sure to impress and is made with simple ingredients.

Football Field Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
All you need are store-bought chocolate and vanilla icing (mix some green food coloring into some of the latter for the "grass"), confetti sprinkles and shredded coconut.
Football Field Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

32. Football Shaped Cake

This football shape cake is delicious and easy to make. Give it a try for birthday parties and game day.

Football Shaped Cake
You don't need special pans or recipes to make football-shaped cakes and it doesn't take a professional cake decorator to get professional results.
Football Shaped Cake

33. Coolest Superbowl Cake

This is the perfect cake to make for your next football party. You can easily decorate this for any team.

Coolest Superbowl Cake
This is a standard sheet cake pan of vanilla cake with a Wilton’s First and Ten football cake pan of chocolate on top.
Coolest Superbowl Cake

34. Football Cake

Make this football cake with chocolate buttercream frosting for a fun sports cake.

Football Cake
The buttercream needs to be as smooth as possible or you’ll see every little bump when your fondant goes on.
Football Cake

35. Chocolate Football Cake

This simple recipe uses a cake mix or a brownie mix. It is easy to make this fun football cake.

Chocolate Football Cake
This easy football cake will impress all your guests, big and small. Also, if you don’t have a cake mix on hand, feel free to substitute a brownie mix.
Chocolate Football Cake

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