Do you have a baseball fan in your house? Or are you planning a 'Rookie of the Year' party? This baseball cake is an easy and fun addition to any table, and baseball fans will count it a home run! It uses buttercream instead of fondant and you can customize the flavor to your preference.
I do recommend getting a 3D cake pan if you're going to make a sphere or speciality shape. I've used this for both a baseball and basketball cake and it's very easy to work with. You can also use two bowls that are the same size, but this cake pan came with pieces it could sit on in the oven which made it a lot easier to place in the oven! This pan makes a 6-inch cake, which is perfect as a smash cake or for a smaller crowd too.

Ingredients
- Cake mix in your flavor of choice (or you can use a homemade recipe- completely up to you!)
- eggs
- oil
- water
- Buttercream frosting (Butter, powdered sugar, vanilla and milk, this is a great beginner's recipe if you're looking for one!)
- white and black food coloring

Directions
- Combine your dry and wet ingredients for your cake.
- Prep your baking pan by spreading crisco around the dish. You could also use a nonstick spray.
- Add your batter to your 3D mold, filling about ⅔ of the way.
- Bake following the recipe or box instructions.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for about 5 minutes. Flip cake pan upside down so it can rest and continue to cool on a cooling rack.

Making Your Buttercream Frosting
- Allow a stick of butter to come to room temperature. (Important, make sure it's actually at room temp!)
- Combine butter, vanilla, milk and powdered sugar into a mixing bowl.
- Using a stand or hand mixer combine until butter is completely combined.
- Separate into two bowls, with almost all of the buttercream going in one and just enough for red laces around the baseball in the second.
- Add a few drops of gel food coloring to each bowl. It may sound odd to add white food coloring to your buttercream but it is important and helps get the color even.
- Stir with a spatula (I like these silicone ones) until color is incorporated.
- Add colors to piping bags and set aside. I usually put them in a glass so they stay standing up.
Decorating Your Baseball Cake
Once your cake has completely cooled, use your serrated knife to cut off a bit of the centers of the cakes so that they will sit pretty evenly together. Also use it to cut off a little of the top/rounded part of one cake. This will be how it stands up and how it looks like a 3D baseball.


Put a little icing on a cake board (or plate) and put the bottom of the cake on top. The frosting will act as glue to hold the cake to the plate. Then add your frosting to the top of that cake which will be the middle of the cake. Place the other piece of cake on top and allow to set. The frosting will hold the pieces together.


Add your white buttercream frosting in a twist/circular motion. When working with a 3D cake I found this to be the easiest way! I did this about halfway down the cake and then used my offset spatula to smooth it out all over the cake, pushing the excess down to cover the bottom piece/section.

After your baseball is completely covered with your white buttercream and smoothed out as much as you'd prefer, take a toothpick and make an outline of where the laces will go. This will help you create a line to follow with your red icing. I highly recommend not skipping this part as the red icing can bleed and you'd have to scrape quite a bit of white icing off with it to redo it. Once you finish your laces allow to cool and serve, or store in the refrigerator until you're ready to serve your baseball cake!

Tips
- If the butter isn't completely at room temp you may get butter flakes in your butter cream. If you don't get them mixed out you can pick them out with a toothpick and smooth the icing over.
- After baking chill the cake, this helps the frosting adhere better.
- A toothpick is an easy way to add details and an outline to your baseball cake after it's been frosted. It helps so the red icing doesn't need to be scraped and reapplied.
- An offset spatula isn't necessary but it is really helpful!
- If you don't have a 3D cake pan, you can use two pyrex of oven-safe bowls that are the same size and make them a mold. Any inconsistencies with size you can add more frosting to cover up.
- Use this 6-inch cake size to make the perfect smash cake!

FAQ
I like to work with buttercream! You can use fondant but in my opinion buttercream tastes better and is easier to work with.
If you use this 3D cake pan you'll have a 6-inch cake which works great on a high chair as a smash cake.
A cake with buttercream frosting should be stored in the refrigerator and will be good for 4-5 days.
📖 Recipe

Baseballl Cake
Equipment
- serrated knife
- 3D cake pan
- offset spatula
- cake board optional
- cooling rack
- piping bags I like disposable ones
Ingredients
Buttercream Frosting
- 1 cup Butter
- 4½ cups powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ cup milk
- 3-4 drops white and red food coloring
Instructions
Making Your Cake
- Combine your dry and wet ingredients for your cake. Prep your baking pan by spreading crisco around the dish. You could also use a nonstick spray.
- Add your batter to your 3D mold, filling about ⅔ of the way. Bake following the recipe or box instructions.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for about 5 minutes. Flip cake pan upside down so it can rest and continue to cool on a cooling rack.
Making Buttercream Frosting
- Allow a stick of butter to come to room temperature.
- Combine butter, vanilla, milk and powdered sugar into a mixing bowl. Using a stand or hand mixer combine until butter is completely combined.
- Separate into two bowls, ¾ of the buttercream going in one and ¼ in the second. This will be for your orange and black frosting. Add a few drops of gel food coloring to each bowl. Stir with a spatula (I like these silicone ones) until color is incorporated.
- Add colors to piping bags and set aside. I usually put them in a glass so they stay standing up.
Decorating Your Baseball Cake
- Once your cake has completely cooled, use your serrated knife to cut off a bit of the centers of the cakes so that they will sit pretty evenly together. Also use it to cut off a little of the top/rounded part of one cake. This will be how it stands up and how it looks like a baseball.
- Put a little icing on a cake board (or plate) and put the bottom of the cake on top. The frosting will act as glue to hold the cake to the plate. Then add your frosting to the top of that cake which will be the middle of the cake. Place the other piece of cake on top and allow to set. The frosting will hold the pieces together.
- Add your orange buttercream frosting in a twist/circular motion. When working with a 3D cake I found this to be the easiest way! I did this about halfway down the cake and then used my offset spatula to smooth it out all over the cake, pushing the excess down to cover the bottom piece/section.
- To make it a baseball cake, after it's been smoothed all around, use a toothpick and outline baseball laces. You can look at a pic online or an actual ball to see how the stitching looks! Take your red buttercream and follow your outline until you see your your baseball shape.
- Allow to cool and store to serve. Store in the refrigerator.
Claire says
Easy to make and follow the tutorial!