Golf Ball Cake

A cake a cake fit for an avid golfer 🏌⛳️

The cake might look difficult to do but in actual fact it's really easy, if you have the right material. You can either do a cheating way by buying ready cake mix & frosting or make it yourself  from scratch. 

Ingredients:

For the golf ball

• A box of chocolate cake mix and ingredients it requires
• A can of frosting, you can make this if you like
• Non-stick baking/cooking spray
• Wilton sphere cake tin as picture below
• Plastic chopstick or any round edge blunt object

For the brownie base:

• 3/4 cup flour, sifted
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 170g butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs

Method:

For the golf ball

Preheat oven according to the cake mix instructions. 

Prepare the baking pans by spraying with non-stick baking/cooking spray.

Combine cake mix ingredients together, as instructed in the box. Pour cake batter into balls pan and bake until a long toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. Should take about 40-50 minutes to fully bake. Let it cool completely. Flatten the tops of each half-circle by cutting off the excess cake.

Turn the cake pans over to release 2 half-circle cakes. I prefer  to cover and refrigerate the cake over night or for at least for a few hours. It helps "firm up" the cake and reduce the amount of crumbs while decorating it.

For the brownie base:

Preheat oven to 180℃/160℃for fan oven. Grease a 9 inch square baking pan.

In a large bowl, combine flour, cocoa and salt. Melt butter in a large saucepan and remove from heat. Stir in sugar and vanilla extract. Quickly whisk in eggs, one at a time.

Add butter mixture to flour mixture and stir until well blended. Spread brownie batter into prepared tin and bake for 20-30 minutes. Cool completely.

Assemble the cake

Place the brownie in a square cake base board that was cover with green ready roll icing. Make a shallow hole in the centre of the brownie to sit the golf balls so that it don't roll away.

Make or buy buttercream icing and add green colour to the icing and mix well. Use a grass pipping nozzle then pipe all over the brownie except the hole that sits the golf balls.

Place the golf balls in the hole. Use a clean, smooth knife, spread a thin layer of icing on the large, flat cake surface and place the other half of the golf ball on top of that. The cake should have a 3-D ball-shaped cake.

Using a clean smooth knife, carefully take icing and smooth it over the entire cake. Stick it back to the fridge for 30 minutes or so, to help harden the icing.

Then get a cup of cool water. Using a flat spatula, dip the spatula in the water and carefully smooth over the icing. This is a trick to help get as smooth an icing surface as possible. Continue to dip it in water and smooth the icing until you are happy.

Put back in fridge for 10-15 minutes to hep harden the icing.

Remove cake from the fridge. Dip the fat end of a plastic chopstick in a cup of water and make a shallow indentation in the icing. Continue the indentations in s straight line. You can make 5-8 indentations before you need to dip it in the water again ( the water keeps the chopstick from sticking to the icing). You may need to clean the chopstick every now and then with a paper towel, just to prevent icing sticking. You can also put the cake back in the fridge every 10 minutes or so....the harder the icing the easier this indentation process will be. Continue to make indentations until the cake is covered with dimple