If you are looking for Football Cake Ideas to make for the big game or birthday party. Here are 35 American Football Cake Ideas.

If you are looking for Football Cake Ideas to make for the big game or birthday party. Here are 35 American Football Cake Ideas. These 35 Football Cake ideas are easy to make with simple ingredients. These cake would be perfect placed on a serving platter for all your game day guest. #dessertsonadime #footballcakeideas #footballcakes
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These American Football Birthday cake ideas are great kids’ cakes or for you next game day party. They are easy to decorate white frosting or white fondant. You can even top with chocolate buttercream for delicious topping.

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These 35 Football Cake ideas are easy to make with simple ingredients. These cake would be perfect placed on a serving platter for all your game day guest.

If you are looking for Football Cake Ideas to make for the big game or birthday party. Here are 35 American Football Cake Ideas. These 35 Football Cake ideas are easy to make with simple ingredients. These cake would be perfect placed on a serving platter for all your game day guest. #dessertsonadime #footballcakeideas #footballcakes

American Football Cake Ideas:

Make a cake in a round cake pan to easily turn it into a football. Top with chocolate frosting and pipe with white frosting to make a crowd pleasing cake.

Create one of these cakes for your football themed party or birthday party.

1. Football Cake

Learn How to Make a Football Cake without a specialty pan with these easy steps. Impress your game day fans with this football cake. Use a serrated knife to cut the cake in a shape of a football.

Use a piping bag to create 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 the cocoa powder with the other ingredients to create this 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 loaded with flavor and easy to make. You can decorate the top with your favorite teams color. Cake decorating is fun with green food coloring for a fun football cake.

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

Make this cupcake cake with simple instructions and create for a football themed party. Let the cupcakes cool on a wire rack before decorating.

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 cook perfectly in the oven and then decorated with almond footballs.

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 store bought cake for this easy football cake.

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 this 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.

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.

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

There is no special pans needed for this football cake for a delicious chocolate cake.

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.

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.

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.

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 kids favorite football team.

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. American Football Surprise Cake

Surprise your family and friends with this candy filled football cake.

American 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!
American 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 and decorate this football cake 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 our game day parties.

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

Simple, delicious and easy to make football cake.

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 impressive 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.

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 shape cake.

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.

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.

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

These football cupcakes cake make the best cake recipe.

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

30. Dan’s Football Cake

Score big with these football cake for all your game day parties.

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.

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.

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. American Football Cake

This football cake with chocolate buttercream frosting for a fun sports cake.

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

35. Chocolate Football Cake

Cover the sides of the cake completely with chocolate frosting for a 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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