How to make basketball jersey cake

Learn How To Make A Basketball Jersey Cake Properly

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Last Updated on June 12, 2021 by Sportszpro

Suppose you have got friends who are just so much passionate about basketball or professional basketball players. Their birthday is getting nearer, or you have got a kid who is always busy to replicate the famous fade away from Kobe. If you want to throw a birthday party, this basketball jersey-shaped cake will be the best surprise. But how to make a basketball jersey cake?

For a basketball fan, jersey cakes are always a unique and perfect gift item. This is indeed a creative arrangement for a birthday party or March madness celebration. Everyone will appreciate you. And this is not really too much difficult to make a jersey shaped cake.

But never forget to add a personal touch to the cake. Personalize the jersey cake with the name and age of the celebrant. This will be so much heart touching. It will add an element of personal feeling.

Table of Contents

• Things you’ll need to make a basketball jersey cake
• 4 Steps For Making basketball jersey cake
  • 1. Template making
  • 2. Combination & Preparation
  • 3. Cake Carving & Freezing
  • 4. Cake designing
• Pro tips

Things you’ll need to make a basketball jersey cake

• Cake mix (approximately one box)
• Egg
• Oil
• Water
• 9 X 13 inch baking pan
• Oven
• Cooling rack
• Serving plate
• Knife
• White icing
• Food color
• Pastry bag with writing tip

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4 Steps For Making basketball jersey cake

Looking for basketball jersey cake ideas? Below, we will be showing you how to make this type of cake. For your better understanding, we have decided to divide the whole process into four segments:

• Template making
• Combination and preparation
• Cake carving & freezing
• Cake designing

So, let’s take a look at these simple steps about how to make a jersey cake.

1. Template making

At first, you have to make the template. The best part of this template making is you’ll need to do this only once. Because from thereon, you can use this same template each time you decide to make a jersey cake.

Use a 9 X 13 inch rectangular cake pan (1/4 sheet). Place the cake pan on the cake card and draw out it’s outline using a marker. You should try to draw a box on the cake card. The sleeves must be extending beyond the width of the pan by at least 1.5-2 inches. So, draw a line an inch away from both sides of the rectangle.

Now you are ready to start the process of making the jersey template. Draw the lines to create the shape of a jersey. After finishing the sketching, use a scissor to cut out the template.

2. Combination & Preparation

Combine the basketball cake mix, egg, oil, and water. Now pour the cake butter into the baking pan and bake. Keep baking until you see a knife inserted in the middle comes out as clean.

3. Cake Carving & Freezing

Now after baking your cake in a 9X13 rectangular pan, let it cool overnight. You can even wrap it with a cling film. Cold cakes are much easier to carve.

Wake up in the morning and take the cake out of the freeze. Then divide the cake into two in the middle. Straightaway, flip the cake upside down and place the prepared cake card on top of the cake.

Now start to carve the cake by using the card. You should re3move the cake card and spread a bit of frosting on it. You need to place the top half of the cake into the cake card and put cut offs from the sides of the cake. You should keep carving the sleeves until you have filled all the jackets with cake.

Carefully remove the top half of the cake and use frosting on it. The frosting is crucial, it helps in sticking the bottom sleeve pieces with the cake. Frost the top of the cake and place the other layer on top of it. Now again, frost the whole cake to make the crumb coat.

Let your cake to chill for a while. After that, you should spread another coat of frosting on the cake. Has the cake chilled again before you start the design?

4.

Cake designing

Now that your cake has been chilled. So time to start the designing. First prepare your cake board by covering it with fondant. Make a logo of the jersey. Cut out the letters you might be using. Then place the cake on an elevated platform and begin draping it with fondant. Now cut off the excess fondant. Use a fondant smoother to smooth your fondant.

Use an embosser to mark out the sleeves. This will help you to make the creases on the cake. This is how you can bring the jersey to it’s life. Place the cake on the cake board.

Your next job is to cut out a strip of fondant according to the cake height. After that, wrap the cake sides with a fondant strip. Start adding food color, use a pastry bag, and other embellishments as well on the cake. Finally, cover the hands of the cake board with a ribbon.

Yeah, now your cake is ready to serve on plates. Follow these steps and make a lovely basketball jersey cake for your dearest ones.

Pro tips

1. You should store your basketball jersey cake template for future use. After all, this cake card will be required to carve the cake. It will ultimately end up laying underneath your cake.

2. It will be better if you have a real jersey in your collection while you’re designing the cake. Otherwise, you can look at a picture of a jersey online. Both will do OK for you.

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I am NOT a professional cake decorator and I am NOT a perfectionist.  That being said...every year I try to make my kids fun birthday cakes.  They tell me what they'd like and then I attempt to make it. 

My oldest son just turned seven.  Almost every year he has requested some kind of sports themed cake.  Basketball is his favorite sport, so we decided on a basketball jersey cake.

He loved to watch Jimmer play for BYU a few years ago, so we recreated a Jimmer #32 jersey.  

This was baked in a 9x13 pan.  I just trimmed the sides so it looked more jersey-ish.

I also really hate to use food coloring.  I don't really like eating frosting that is colored.  I don't know why...I'm weird like that.  Anyway...I didn't plan ahead very well before I made the cake, so the darkest that I could get the frosting was medium blue, not true BYU colors.  No one complained. 

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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.

Once the offensive team has brought 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.

Basketball court 1

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.

The 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 aim of the center is to open up for the pass and the 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 the pass, taking outside throws, scoring goals and rebounding.

Defense - Responsibilities include preventing attacks 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.

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

Where do new coaches start?

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For success in basketball!

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These are all important basics to learn because they will make you and your team better, no matter what age or situation you are in.

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– Why? If something like this happens, we are interested. We are even ready to participate.

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In Russia, the people do not pay attention to this, somehow everything is sideways. Of course, this is what I want to do the most.

- I know that you are a rather modest guy in this regard, but you do a lot of good deeds. Did you come to this yourself? What prompted you to do such things?

– I have never felt sorry for money – sharing it with people, especially with those who are in need…

– Let’s be honest: you didn’t live in luxury yourself, did you?

– No, no, of course. Why is there such a desire? Why not help people who are in need? It's one thing when a person has opportunities, but he asks for help, and there are people who ask out of hopelessness - and then why not help? Of course, there is a sledge hockey team – yes, we had…

… There are a lot of questions there. I just don't feel comfortable talking about it in public. Somehow I start to feel uncomfortable - and after that a big boom of people: everyone starts to apply, they ask, but you can’t refuse and you end up worried, torn from it all.

If you help someone, then on the sly, so that no one really knows, and it is desirable that people do not know who helped. So I sleep more calmly - I’m not doing this [for show] for someone, for myself, and this is the most important thing.

Fatigue, bankruptcy Gretzky, Burdasov

- Many fans ask us. Two years ago there was an interview where you said that you were tired of hockey.

– Yes, it happens. This often happens.

– What happened? What happened? And how did you get out of it?

– Hockey has changed dramatically.

– Are you not interested?

- I said that after the combination hockey there was a moment when everyone was running like a chicken without a head. And so it was. You don't enjoy the game. It seems that an open person is going - I want to give / receive, so that there is some kind of pleasure in the game, but now everything is for the result. The league is so strong that if you lose one game, then that point won't be enough at the end [of the regular season].

And it was all piling up, piling up, piling up - and somehow it was just necessary to unload. It just passed in the end. The summer has passed and you think: “Well, we need to somehow regroup.” And the desire for hockey periodically appears more and more.

– How do you get out of this? Because a lot of guys face it.

- As they say here, this is mental health (mental health - Sports.ru). It seems like laughter is laughter, but friends exist for this: sometimes not to get help, but simply to speak out. The "backpack" is piling up at the back - sometimes it is necessary to unload it. You unload it, then you look at it all from the outside and think: “No, I’m still doing the right thing, doing what I love. ” And there is motivation. I think it's right when people don't keep it to themselves, but share and talk about it.

- I agree with you. Listen, and you last season turned out to be such a turning point. You began to come back and look like the Kuzya we remember - a skillful, reckless, mischievous, cheerful, and at the same time a very positive person. This is great.

Let's do this: Backstrom is injured now, you will play with Sasha. Everyone is talking about his record. Is there any pressure on you?

- No, no. He will still beat him.

– So you're sure he'll beat him?

– Then he will sign [a new contract] and play. I think at least 20 goals [for the regular season] will always score, even when he is over 40. Whatever one may say, a person has a gift from God: he knows how to be in the right place, a shot and this flair.

I just don't have this scoring instinct. Everyone has their own job on the ice, sometimes you don’t even notice what you are becoming a part of. Then you look from the side and think: “Damn, the dude can beat Gretzky’s record” - and Gretzky was considered an unattainable person all his life.

- Did you manage to communicate with Gretzky? Did you see him?

- Once - I said hello. I know that Sasha communicates well with him. We generally joked that Gretzky would now be on the teams we play against, throwing people [money]: “Come out with him to ride.” In 10 years it will be bankrupt - there is no money. "Where are they?" - "Yes, here I am ... so that my record is not broken."

- Today we were in the locker room, I specifically went up to the wall with records - and almost everywhere there is only Ovechkin's name. Do you have your records too? Let's go back to Chelyabinsk, where you had a record - from the beginning of the championship you, in my opinion, are 8 or 9scored points in consecutive games. And now Anton Burdasov has broken your record.

– Antokha is beautiful!

- You played together in the youth team and won the World Cup, right?

- Yes, yes, yes.

- You go through life like that with him. They even got an apartment together.

- Different only - in squares, in the sense. But don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

- It's good that they got something for the championship.

– Of course. Those were very good times. Maybe we'll be back one more day, who knows.

Finns, microwave oven, Tertyshny

– The best partner in your life?

- "Clean"! Chistov. It's even unconditional. There is an understanding of the game. He can shoot once in three games, and I can do the same - but Bulis will shoot 10 and score 5. There was such chemistry - and they enjoyed it. We could never quit for a period, but always be with the puck. This is what helped move and grow.

– Did you enjoy this kind of hockey?

- Yes.

- Excellent. What is your least favorite exercise in hockey?

- Probably no washers. Cylinders at Andrey Viktorovich Nazarov. It was the case, dragged.

– Why did you choose hockey?

- Was the nearest school from home. Mom said that there was no need to cross the road - and therefore she enrolled me in hockey.

– How old were you?

- Five. My birthday was just being celebrated, and my mother took me and enrolled me in hockey.

- Most embarrassing moment in your career?

– An awkward moment is when you score a goal in the open and give it to [the opponent]. Yes, yes, it happened. I remember the first year of Trotz was, and at first I played a little, in the fourth link. He went out against the tough guy, wanted to give it back from the corner - and he gave it directly to the tough guy, he scored a goal - 1:0, and so they lost. And I missed the next match - it was the most awkward moment. As I remember now: I wanted to give away with an uncomfortable feeling - and he was standing there, he scored two goals in just his career.

- Who do you feel most uncomfortable playing against? player or team.

– Finns, probably. It doesn't matter what line-up they have, they still have this team game. And they do not play dirty, do not push, just there are always six of them in front of you.

- And as if they are doing it against the Russians on purpose.

– Apparently they know how to play.

- Your first purchase from a hockey contract?

- I remember the first one was in a children's school. They gave me 3,700 in rubles - I was 13 or 14 years old, and we immediately went to buy a microwave oven for home - a cake, it was a holiday. Such an event! Then every month they paid 3770, it was necessary to sign more.

– Did they give you a scholarship like that?

- Yes, yes, yes. I was the highest paid.

– Do you follow the KHL?

- Of course.

– What is the best KHL player for you at the moment?

– The best player? The best player... It's hard... It's hard to name the best.

- Give me a three.

– I would probably put Da Costa from Avtomobilist in the middle, let Burdas walk on the left, and Tkach (Vladimir Tkachev – Sports.ru) on the right, probably from Omsk. I like the way it plays.

- How did you like Tertyshny last season in Chelyabinsk?

– I played great, I'm worried about the guy. Yesterday Anvar Rafailovich [Gatiyatulin] and I talked about this topic, that they had a link ...

– The foreigners left and it became hard for him.

– It's not that the foreigners left – they each had their own role clearly written down: one does one thing, the other does something else, and Tyra was on the penny – what he can do.

And now the partners have changed, everything is different, everything is new, the guy is under pressure. Naturally, everyone demands, and it is clear that he wants to do someone's job right, and his job is to accept, add, kick, beat, score.

– Have you tried talking to him?

– No… Why am I going to talk to him? I think Anvar Rafailovich talks there, explains everything.

- Imagine, you call him - firstly, he will be pleased, and secondly, mentally it will turn him over a little.

- Well, yes, yes. I follow, I care, it's interesting to see how everything develops. As a rule, when everything is good, no one speaks, but how bad it is, so evil tongues appear, it’s hard for him. It's obvious what the guy wants to do. Good, trying ... He would have a central normal.

– Are you hinting at yourself?

- Well. They told me... Lamborghini.

- And they changed [the rights] to St. Petersburg.

– And they sent it to St. Petersburg, yes. Sincerely.

McDavid, Point, gave away - opened

- The best player in the NHL or three players?

– Matthews, McDavid… The third one will be hard. And I would do - Matthews, McDavid and Point. I would put all three.

- Do you like the way Point plays?

– Yes. It seems to me that he doesn’t care at all: he will score, he won’t score. He will always plow, work, drag the puck into the zone, he is not greedy, he will always give back. He doesn’t do too much and rides great, his thinking is hockey. Kucherov was lucky - they have a connection, they always see each other with their eyes closed.

McDavid - obviously, he's from another planet. Now everyone about Haaland from Manchester City says: "He is not a man, he is not a man." You look here - and understand what kind of alien we are playing with.

- Is he really the fastest even at this level?

- Well, sort of, yes. For example, I go out for rent in the summer, he comes out with us sometimes as with tenants, it seems so. That is, he goes in three - and passes. Despite the fact that people know and release those who can, and here he is so [faster].

And Matthews - he has a sense of goal. He does not seem to be pushing, not fast, but there is a moment - a goal. There is a vision of hockey.

- The worst match of your career?

– There were a lot of them – as a rule, mine was either not very good, or super, there was no middle ground. For some reason, before my eyes, when Trotz was a coach and the Rangers and I played the seventh game in the playoffs, overtime. It turned out to be a throw, it was impossible to change, a throw-in - Trotz had a rule: the central one always plays on the central one. They changed the central one – and in the window the central one scored into an empty corner. Here is the goal in front of my eyes.

It was so embarrassing: he warned, they played like this all year - and that's when they got tired. It was that game that came to mind - it was a shame to lose, especially in overtime. There's also this palace: they all push themselves into overtime, and when you lose in overtime, they are all euphoric, right? And you're sitting like that. .. Unpleasant.

- And here is such a rhetorical question, we all ask it. What is the strength of hockey for you?

- Gave - opened! And in no case did he “give it away, throw it away, close it.”

"Given - opened" - I think strength in hockey. In any sport, you need to respect an opponent (it seems that Kuznetsov misspoke here and meant a partner - Sports.ru) - not in a person’s life, but on the court: to pass, the way you pass to him, also to open up for him - Here is this mutual understanding, chemistry so and is happening. For me, it's "gave - opened." And it doesn't matter if you win or lose - the main thing is that you played. They didn’t just come sweating to get more beer, but they enjoyed it, they made the opponent look like fools somewhere - so that they would run after the puck.

- It's funny because you talk about hockey as a game. Many people perceive hockey as a job.

– Two years ago this turned into a job: you come like a robot, you work, you don't give a damn, and you leave. They pay like money - and it's normal. I'm cool, everyone knows me, they give discounts. This is understandable, this is a big part - the salary is the same.

But the thrill is something else: come to training and beat the person you see every day, surprise him, make someone surprise you. Here is the snack to be.

And one day it all went into one direction - maybe the covid mixed everything up. You go out - and the stands are empty. You don’t get high from it and you see that the opponent doesn’t get high either.

- I've always wondered: you are a very creative player - when you see something interesting, can you come to the coach and say?

– Can. You can at least say something. But each coach has his own vision and framework.

- Is it difficult to adapt to them?

- It depends on what kind of framework: someone likes it, someone doesn't. Sometimes it's hard.

– You manage to be creative even within these limits.

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