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Dress up a Sheet Cake: Soccer Field Cake

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This is a continuation of our series on how to dress up a sheet cake. This one isn't difficult, but can be a bit time consuming. We're making soccer themed cake this time. I mixed up a batch of my vegan American buttercream. I colored some of it green and some black.  Then I covered the sides of the cake dummy with white buttercream.  And the top of the cake with green buttercream. It doesn't have to be a perfect frosting job because we're going to cover it with piping.  We put our three colors of buttercream in piping bags. The green with a grass tip, the black and the white with small star tips.  Then, I marked the green buttercream with a knife to mark the pattern of a soccer pitch.  I followed the lines with white stars.  Then I used a soccer cutter kit I had to mark the sides.  I began with the pentagon. However, I must warn you if you have one of these sets, they are not meant to cover a flat surface, rather a spherical sur...