Football Field Cake

Name: Football Field Cake
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 425 grams cups all purpose flour; 12 servings An almond; 1 Tbsp baking powder; 296 milliliters plus two tablespoons unsalted butter, slightly softened; 710 milliliters confectioners sugar; 227 grams cream cheese; 5 larges eggs; 1 teaspoon lemon juice; 1 sheet A of white paper; 1 teaspoons salt; 710 milliliters sugar; 1 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 296 milliliters whole milk; 12 servings Green food coloring (or blue and yellow in a bind); 12 servings A sharpie or black marker

This recipe serves 12. One portion of this dish contains roughly 15g of protein, 49g of fat, and a total of 944 calories. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for The Super Bowl. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up baking powder, all purpose flour, an almond, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

To Make the Cake: Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour 9- by 12-inch cake pan.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Cake Form

Oven

In large mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking, powder and salt. In small bowl, mix together the milk and vanilla.

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Vanilla

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Salt

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Mixing Bowl

Whisk

In large bowl, beat together butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about four minutes. Beat in eggs one at a time, making sure to scrape down any dough on sides of bowl.

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Butter

Dough

Sugar

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add one third of flour mixture to butter and beat until incorporated. Beat in half of milk mixture.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Add another third of flour mixture, beat to combine.

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All Purpose Flour

Mix in remaining milk mixture and last of flour mixture. Beat dough until thick and smooth, about 1 minute.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Pour batter into prepared cake pan and bake until cake tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean, about 45 minutes, rotating once half way through cooking. If top of the cake begins to get too brown, cover the cake with foil.

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Oven

Cake Form

Aluminum Foil

Let cake cool for at least ten minutes in pan.

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Frying Pan

Transfer to wire rack and let cool to room temperature.

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Wire Rack

To Make the Frosting: In bowl of food processor, combine butter, three cups of confectioners sugar, cream cheese, vanilla, and lemon juice. Pulse until smooth, about 10 1-second pulses.

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Powdered Sugar

Cream Cheese

Lemon Juice

Frosting

Vanilla

Butter

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Food Processor

Bowl

Add more sugar to taste 1/2 cup at a time, pulsing until incorporated after each addition.

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Sugar

Set 1/4 cup of frosting aside.

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Frosting

Add drops of green food coloring and stir until you have desired hue of football field green.

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Green Food Color

To Make the Decorations

Cut two wooden skewers in half.

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Wooden Skewers

Lay two of the skewer halves side by side about three inches apart. Glue toothpick in between to make crossbar. Repeat with remaining two skewer halves and another toothpick.

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Toothpicks

Skewers

Cut out a flag shape from piece of white paper. Write name of your team on it. Glue to toothpick.

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Toothpicks

Cut out circle from the paper. Draw a happy face on it (He’s at the Super Bowl! He’s excited!).

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Bowl

Cut out shirt and draw on his super-slimming vertical black lines. Glue two toothpicks into cross shape. When dry, glue the head to top of vertical toothpick, then glue shirt to horizontal toothpick.

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Toothpicks

To assemble cake: Frost top layer of cake with green frosting. Use remaining white frosting to draw line markers and end zones.

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Frosting

Add goal posts, flags and ref.

Place almond in center as football.

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Almonds