How to make a basketball birthday cake

Basketball Cake Tutorial {Easy Round Layer Cake with M&M Candies}

Learn how to make a basketball cake from orange and brown M&M candies. This easy 2 layer round cake is perfect for a basketball theme party.

Whether it is for March Madness, a birthday party or a basketball season year end party, this easy basketball cake is fun for kids to make and colorful to serve at a party.

Although there are many ways to decorate a basketball cake, one of the easiest ways is with M&Ms. Start with your favorite chocolate cake and vanilla frosting, then use orange and black M&Ms to “draw” the lines on the cake and fill them in. No special cake decorating skills required! Here are some hints to make the cake.

If you are short on time, use your favorite box cake mix brand to make a 2 layer round cake. If you’d like to make a from scratch cake, here are our favorites:

• Dark Chocolate Cake
• White Cake
• Yellow Cake
• Gluten Free Chocolate Cake

We think that vanilla frosting tastes best on this cake. You can color it orange if you’d like to give a more solid orange background.

Here are our favorite recipes:

• Vanilla Buttercream
• White Chocolate Frosting
• Cream Cheese Frosting

Let your cake cool and frost with white frosting.

Use the brown M&M’s to make a vertical line down the center of the cake and a horizontal but slightly curved line across the cake.

Now make one vertical curved line with the brown M&M’s on each side of the straight vertical line to create the basketball lines.

Fill in the remaining areas on the top of the cake with orange M&M’s.

And that’s it! You’ll end up with a cake looking something like this. If you have more M&Ms you could decorate the sides or put an M&M border around the bottom edge of the cake.

Once the cake is fully covered in frosting, it is best if you do not refrigerate the cake. The frosting will act as a seal to keep that cake moist.

After the cake is cut, store it in an airtight container.

To make sure you have enough M&Ms, you’ll need to purchase a 42 ounce bag of M&M candies (purchase here).

Another option is to purchase all brown and all orange M&Ms. This is a more expensive option, but you won’t have as much waste. (As if M&Ms were a waste! 🙂 )

Purchase orange M&Ms or brown M&Ms.

Servings 15

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

• 2 round white or chocolate cake layers (baked)
• 4 cups Favorite white frosting
• 42 ounces bag of M&M’s candies (to make sure there’s enough orange and brown)

• Bake your favorite cake in 2 8″ or 9″ round cake pans. Turn the cakes out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

• Place one cake layer on a cake plate. Top with frosting.

• Place the second layer of cake on top.

• Frost the top and sides of the cake with frosting, making it as smooth as possible.

• Use the brown M&M’s to make a vertical line down the center of the cake. Then make a horizontal but slightly curved line across the cake.

• Now make one vertical curved line with the brown M&M’s on each side of the straight vertical line to create the basketball lines.

• Fill in the remaining areas on the top of the cake with orange M&M’s.

• Store the cake at room temperature.

• Once the cake has been cut you’ll need to store it in an airtight container.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword basketball cake, birthday cake, round cake

How to Make a Personalized Sphere Basketball Cake

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You are most likely here because you are wondering how to make a personalized sphere basketball cake. You have come to the right place. This is a step-by-step tutorial so you can make a basketball cake for your team or player.

This sphere ball cake is mostly covered in frosting, although there are fondant elements.

Cake making is a hobby of mine, and I love to try and replicate real life objects. You might enjoy seeing my banjo cake, Ninjago cake and firefighter cake if you enjoy the art of cake design.

However, that’s not your main purpose for being here, is it? You are wondering how to make a personalized sphere basketball cake. Let’s get started.

How to Make a Personalized Sphere Basketball Cake

As with any project, it’s important to gather your supplies. Being prepared for the cake decorating experience is half the battle.

Materials Needed to Make a Personalized Sphere Basketball Cake

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• Black Fondant (I would not consider making your own. You want to buy it black. Trying to make black from white is impossible. You use loads and loads of black food coloring, and in the end it looks purple.)
• 2x 8″ glass bowl or 8″ cake sphere pan
• 8 inch cake pan
• Cake Recipe: red velvet, white velvet or chocolate are classics. I did 1.5x the red velvet recipe (coloring it orange instead), to fit my two glass mixing bowls and one 8″ cake pan.
• Frosting Recipe: My favorite vanilla buttercream is amazing and pipes out beautifully. If you don’t want a frosting that contains cream for allergy reasons orbecause the cake will be sitting out for prolonged period of time, this is a great alternative.
• Orange and Copper Food Coloring
• 8 inch cake board
• Bubble Tea Straw – I always use wide bubble tea straws or wide smoothie straws to dowel my cake. They are easier to cut than the wooden dowels and are just as strong. I’m not convinced this cake needed a center support, but I still did it as precaution.
• Decorating Tip Number 7
• Coupler
• Pastry Bag
• Cake Spatula
• Serrated Knife
• Pizza Cutter
• Fondant Roller
• Fondant Mat
• Yard Stick or alternate straight edge
• Small Plastic Tupperware
• Parchment Paper
• 1.5 inch Letter Cookie Cutters – I got mine from this 100 piece cookie cutter set, which I have loved having on hand
• Powdered Sugar

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Step-by-Step Instructions for Making a Perfectly Round Sphere Cake

The first goal is to make a sphere cake. Mine was not a perfect sphere. The bottom was flat for two reasons. I wanted it to stand secure. The glass bowl I used was flat bottomed.

The final step in this making a sphere cake tutorial shows how to trick the eye so that the cake appears perfectly round.

To make this sphere ball cake I used two 8 inch glass mixing bowl and one 8 inch circular cake pan.

Prepping the Cake

• Grease pans and bowls and then dust with flour.
• Cut out parchment paper the size of the bottom of your bowl. Do the same for your circular pan. Put these pieces of parchment paper in the bottom of the bowls and circular pan. These first two steps ensure your cake doesn’t stick.
• Fill your bowls and cake pan with batter. One whole red velvet recipe was poured into the two bowls. 1/2 recipe was poured into the circular cake pan. I baked these separately because I knew they’d cook at different rates. The bowl takes longer to cook. I would not fill it completely because to cook a half a bowl of cake would take too long and much of the cake would taste burned.
• Once baked and cooled, remove your cake from the cake pan.

Stacking the Sphere Cake

• Using a serrated knife, level off the dome shape of your cake. Reserve one of the domes to be the top of the ball since your baking bowl had a flat spot.
• Cut a cake circle to the size of the bottom of your cake. Add one of the half circle cakes to the cardboard cake circle, wide side up.
• Stick one of your straws in the center as a dowel.
• Make frosting, and add it to the first layer. I added a combination of orange and copper food coloring to get my end color.
• Stack as follows – small cardboard cake circle, half bowl cake (wide side up), frosting, cardboard cake circle cut slightly smaller than 8 inch round, 8 inch round cake, frosting, half bowl cake (wide side down), small amount of frosting, top dome piece you had cut off your cake to level. Now you have a ball shape.
• Using a serrated knife, trim off some of the 8 inch circle and shape top of the cake to make it into a perfect ball.

Frosting a Sphere Ball Cake

Every good frosted cake starts with a crumb coat. Read my Cake Making 101 post to read more. Follow up with my Cake Making 201 post if you plan to use fondant on your sphere cake or just want to learn more about cake decorating.

A crumb coat is a real thin layer of frosting (pictured upper left) that basically grabs the crumbs and adheres them to the side so that you don’t have crumbs in your outer layer.

To make a crumb coat, take your cake spatula and apply frosting, in a thin layer, to the outer edge of your cake.

Pro tip: Separate the crumb coat frosting from the batch of frosting so you are not dipping your crumb-coated spatula into all of your frosting.

You will see cake and crumbs in your crumb coat. That’s OK. Stick your cake in the refrigerator to solidify those crumbs into that first layer of frosting.

Once set, pull out the cake and do your second layer of frosting. You’ll be covering the cake with piped dots, so this doesn’t have to be perfect, but just try and make the ball look evenly round. I had a plastic frosting smoother that bent so I could go around the ball more evenly with the curves.

Decorating a Personalized Sphere Basketball Cake

• Cover your work surface in a light layer of powdered sugar. Take a piece of black fondant and roll it into a snake. Then, using your fondant roller with the purple band setting, roll out the fondant into a long strip. The bands help ensure you are rolling to an even level.
• Using a clean straight edge and pizza cutter, cut one side of the fondant straight.
• Use your straight edge to make sure the cut side remains in a straight line.
• Measure 1/2 inch from that edge in a few different places and make with a toothpick.
• Use your straight edge again, laying it in line with the toothpick holes. Take your pizza roller and make another cut.
• Use your strips to make a line all the way around the center of your cake. I went over the top first and then used two different pieces for the two different sides.
• Use the back of a butter knife to try and make these initial lines as straight as possible.

Quick side note: Sorry for the discrepancy in the coloring in the photos. Different lighting yielded different results. Your coloring will be dependent on both lighting and color of frosting. Our final result was more orange than all of these prep-photos suggest.

• Cut more black fondant strips for the four curved lines on the basketball.
• I just used my eyes as well as a ruler at points to try and get the curves even on both sides. Cutting out a template is another option.
• Using letter cookie cutters, cut out the name of your child. I cut my end two letters shorter by hand so they’d fit. Do their name on both sides of the ball.
• Time to do dots, dots and more dots. Using a size 7 tip, add dots to all of the parts of the cake basketball that is not covered in black fondant.
• Pro Tip: To shine up black fondant so that the powdered sugar disappears, use a little bit of shortening on a paper towel and very lightly rub on the fondant.
• Once all the dots are done, put the cake in the refrigerator to let the frosting stiffen a bit. Pull it out, wash your hands and use your finger to press down all of the dots so they look a bit flat rather than like little Hershey kisses.

The question of the hour: How long did it take to do all those dots?

How long does anything take as a mother? Probably twice as long as it needed to. I tried to keep track, but there were interruptions. My guesstimate would be 2 1/2 hours to do the dots.

• The final step, which I promised to reveal, was how to make a sphere cake with a flat base look perfectly round. The way to trick the eye is creating a base or a stand. I used a plastic piece of Tupperware and covered it in fondant. You could also use something like a container for shredded parmesan or goat cheese.

There you have it – Instructions about how to make a personalized sphere basketball cake.

After you have read all the instructions, you might be ready to jump in and tackle a fun but challenging project.

However, you might feel overwhelmed and have decided you’d like an easier project. If that’s the case, maybe this is your solution:

Basketball Cupcakes

While my son wanted the cake for his birthday, we made these basketball cupcakes for his classroom celebration.

This is his first year playing basketball, and he is pretty excited about it.

Decorating these cupcakes were fairly simply. The edible basketball cupcake topping I bought at Hobby Lobby. An alternative would be to stick in plastic basketball rings instead. I applied the black sprinkles in a swirl pattern using my Wilton sugar writer. These cupcakes were baked in black and white cupcake liners.

Below showed some of the products used or an alternative. The Wilton Sugar Writer was a Christmas gift from my husband. The 3-tier cupcake carrier has been so wonderful to have on hand. These would make great gifts for the baker in your life.

CakeSupplyShop Black and White StripeWilton 710-762 Black Sugar Sparkles,Basketball Cupcake Rings - 24Wilton Sugar Writer Sanding SugarBest Choice Products 3-Tier Cake
 

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Basketball Basics - Rules, Concepts, Definitions and Player Positions

Fortunately, the rules of basketball are quite simple.

However, if you are coaching younger players, these rules can be easily forgotten once they are out in the open.

The three second rule (which we will discuss in detail later in this article) is just one of many great examples.

But before you can teach your team the rules, you must know them yourself.

So keep reading because by the end of this article you will be up to date with all the rules of basketball so you can educate your players and help them develop throughout the season!

Rules

Basketball is a team sport.

Two teams of five players each attempt to score by throwing a ball through a hoop 10 feet above the ground.

The game is played on a rectangular floor, called a court, with rings at each end.

The court is divided into two main parts by a mid-court line.

If the offensive team puts the ball into play behind the half-court line, they have ten seconds to kick the ball over the half-court line.

If not, the defense gets the ball.

As soon as the offensive team passes the ball over the half-court line, they can no longer have possession of the ball in the area beyond the half-court line.

If yes, the ball is given to the defense.

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The ball moves across the court towards the basket as a result of a pass or dribbling. The team with the ball is called a foul. The team without the ball is called the defense.

Defense attempts to steal the ball, contest shots, deflect passes and collect rebounds.

Points

When a team scores a basket, it scores two points and the ball goes to the other team.

If a basket or field goal is made outside the three-point arc, that basket is worth three points. A free throw is worth one point.

Free throws are awarded to a team according to some formats including the number of fouls committed in a half and/or the type of foul committed.

A foul on a shooter always results in him being awarded two or three free throws, depending on where he was when he fired. If he goes over the three-point line, he gets three shots.

Other types of fouls do not result in free throws being awarded until a certain number (called team fouls) have been accumulated during the half.

Once this number is reached, the fouled player is given a 1 to 1 opportunity. If he shoots his first free throw, he may take his second shot. If he misses the first hit, the ball stays alive on the rebound.

Game clock

Each game is divided into sections, and all levels consist of two halves.

In college, each half is twenty minutes long.

In high school and under, the halves are divided into eight (sometimes six) minute quarters. For the pros, the quarterfinals are twelve minutes long.

Between halves a break of several minutes. The intervals between quarters are relatively short.

If the score is tied at the end of the rule, additional periods of varying length are played until a winner emerges.

Basket assignment and hint

Each team is also assigned a basket or goal to defend.

This means that the other basket is their points basket.

Teams change goals during half-time.

The game starts with one player from each team on the center court.

The referee tosses the ball between them. The player who picks up the ball knocks it over to a teammate. This is called tipping.

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Fouls and violations

In addition to stealing the ball from an opponent, there are other ways for a team to get the ball.

One such way is to commit a foul or violation by another team.

FULS

Personal fouls: Personal fouls include any form of illegal physical contact.

• Hitting
• Pushing
• Slapping
• Holding
• Illegal selection/screening - when the attacking player is moving.

Penalties for personal fouls: If a player shoots while being fouled, he receives two free throws. if his throw misses, but only one free throw if his throw hits.

• Three free throws are awarded if a player is fouled while shooting at a three-point goal and misses. If a player is fouled while making a three-point shot and he still does it, he is awarded one free throw. Thus, he could score four points in the game.
• lbs. If the foul was violated in the absence of a throw, the ball is passed to the team against which the foul was committed. They receive the ball from the nearest side or baseline, outside the playing area, and they have 5 seconds to pass the ball to the court.
• One & one. If the fouling team has seven or more fouls in the game, then the player against whom the foul was committed is awarded one free throw. If he makes his first shot, he is given another free throw.
• Ten or more fouls. If the fouling team has ten or more fouls, then the fouled player receives two free throws.

Charger . Offensive foul committed when a player pushes or runs over a defender. player. The ball is passed to the team against which the foul was committed.

Lockout . Blocking is illegal personal contact resulting from a defender failing to timely prevent an opponent from hitting the basket.

Hard foul . Strong contact with the enemy. This includes kicks and punches. This type of foul results in free throws plus a possession foul after the free throws.

Intentional foul . When a player comes into physical contact with another player without reasonable effort to steal the ball. This is a verdict for officials.

Technical foul . Technical foul. A player or coach may commit this type of foul. It doesn't involve player contact or the ball, but it's about the "manner" of the game. Foul language, obscenity, obscenity gestures and even arguments can be considered a technical foul, as can technical details regarding filling in a field incorrectly billed or scored during a warm-up.

VIOLATIONS

Walks/travels . To take more than one and a half steps without dribbling is to move. Moving the pivot foot after the dribbling is stopped is movement.

Carry / Palm . When a player dribbles the ball too far away from the ball, or sometimes even under it.

Double guidance . Dribbling with both hands on the ball at the same time or lifting the ball. dribbling and then dribbling again is a double dribble.

Ball holding . Sometimes two or more opposing players can take possession of the ball at the same time. To avoid a prolonged and/or violent scrum, the referee stops the action and passes the ball to one of the players. team or other on a rotational basis.

Goalkeeper . If a defending player interferes with the shot while he is walking towards the basket, while he is climbing towards the basket after touching the backboard, or while he is in a top hat above the hoop, it is a goal and the shot is scored. If it was committed by an attacker, it is a violation and the ball is given to the opposing team for a throw-in.

Backcourt violation . Once the offense has carried the ball over the midcourt line, they cannot return over the line while in possession. If they do, the ball is passed to the other team for an out-of-bounds pass.

Time limits . The player passing the ball out of bounds has five seconds to pass the ball. If he does not, then the ball is passed to the other team. Other time limits include the rule that a player cannot shoot the ball for more than five seconds while carefully guarded and, in some states and levels, time limits for shots requiring a team to attempt a shot within a certain period of time.

Player positions

Center . Centers are usually the tallest players. Usually they are located next to the basket.

Offense - The goal of the center is to open up for a pass and a shot. They are also responsible for blocking defenders, known as rebounds or screenings, to give other players the opportunity to hit the basket and score a goal. Centers are expected rebounds and kickbacks in attack.

Defense - In defense, the main task of the center is to keep opponents from shooting by blocking blows. and runs in a key zone. They are also expected to get a lot of rebounds because they are taller.

Forward . The next highest players will most likely be your forwards. While a striker may be called when playing under the basket, they may also be required to operate on the flanks and in the corner areas.

Offensive - Offensives are responsible for clearing passes, taking outside throws, scoring goals and rebounding.

Defense - Responsibilities include preventing attacks to the goal and rebounds.

Guard . These are potentially your shortest players and should be able to quickly dribble, court and pass. Their job is to get the ball to the court and create offensive plays.

Offense - Dribbling, passing and organizing attacking play are the primary duties of a defender. They also need to be able to drive into the basket and shoot from the perimeter.

Defensive - On defense, the guard is responsible for stealing passes, challenging throws, avoiding hoops, and for boxing.

Where do new coaches start?

Now that you understand the basics, the smartest plan you can follow is to help players develop these skills through structured drills and practice.

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