Football Cake
You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Football Cake If you have salt, buttermilk, egg yolks, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour.
Instructions
In a small bowl, pour water over chocolate; set aside.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each.
Add cooled chocolate and vanilla.
Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk.
In another bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Fold into batter. Grease and flour one 8-in. round baking pan and one 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. If desired, line bottoms with waxed paper; grease and flour paper.
Pour 2-1/2 cups batter into round baking pan.
Pour the remaining batter into the rectangular pan.
Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes (round) and 35-40 minutes (rectangular) or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pans for 10 minutes before removing to wire racks.
Remove waxed paper and cool completely.
For frosting, combine sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan. Stir in milk and egg yolks until smooth.
Add butter; bring to a boil over medium heat until thickened and bubbly, stirring constantly. Boil for 2 minutes.
Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla and coconut.
Cool completely; set aside 3/4 cup. Tint remaining frosting green.
Place rectangular cake on serving platter; frost top and sides with green frosting.
Place 1/2 cup vanilla frosting in a decorator tube; pipe yard lines across cake.
For football, slice a 2-in.-wide strip from the center of round cake (save for another use).
Spread reserved coconut frosting between layers of cake, forming the football.
Place cut side down on a flat surface.
Combine remaining vanilla frosting with cocoa; frost top and sides of football. Use decorator tube to pipe laces on football. With a large spatula, carefully lift football and place on the green cake. Use three pipe cleaners at each end of cake to form goalposts.