Here, you’ll find 15 beautiful baseball cake ideas for beginner and pro bakers, perfect to celebrate a birthday or your next game party. If you’re looking for inspiration to place an order with your local baker, or you want to recreate one of these cakes yourself, you’re in the perfect place.
How to find a baseball cake idea suited to your cake-decorating level?
I’ve come up with a system. The cake ideas are presented to you according to their level of difficulty. There are three categories :
What Are Beginner Cake Ideas?
These are easy cake ideas. If you’ve never decorated a cake before (or only did it once or twice), these are the cakes that you should pay attention to.
- What you’ll find: Beautiful cake ideas that only require basic cake decorating techniques. This is a great place to start your journey.
What Are Intermediate Cake Ideas?
Low Intermediate Baker: If you are confident that you’ve mastered the cake decorating basics, such as how to smooth a cake, but feel like you still have a lot of techniques to learn apart from this foundation, this category is perfect for you.
- What you’ll find: Cake ideas that require both basic decorating skills and one or two techniques that are a little bit more advanced. This is a great place to grow your cake-decorating skills.
High Intermediate Baker: If you’ve mastered both basic techniques and several more advanced cake decorating techniques, these cake ideas are made for you.
- What you’ll find: Stunning cake ideas that can be fairly challenging, but are a great place to get even better than you already are.
What Are Advanced Cake Ideas?
If you consider yourself an experienced cake decorator and have mastered most of the decorating techniques, including the use of fondant, then this is the perfect place for you.
- What you’ll find: Showstopping and challenging cake ideas, perfect to sharpen and maintain your skills.
The Grading System
Finally, I’ve also assigned a grade of difficulty to each cake inspiration: 1/5 being the easiest design and 5/5 being the hardest. The goal is to make the ranking the most accurate possible. You will find this to be particularly helpful if you happen to fall in the Beginner or the Intermediate Cake Ideas categories.
Growth Tip : This list is great a place to set goals about your cake decorating skills. Pin this post and come back later to tell us how far you’ve come in your cake decorating journey !
How to recreate these baseball cake ideas?
What cake recipe should you use to make your perfect cake come true?
To recreate these cake ideas, you will need a trustworthy cake recipe. You have several options.
Adapt your favorite cake recipe.
There are a lot of ways to adapt a cake recipe. You mainly have four options to tweak your favorite recipe :
- You could change the flavor of your cake recipe: with citrus zest, the essence of your choice, or turn it into a chocolate or carrot cake for example.
- You could add a filling: a caramel sauce, a homemade flavored whipped cream, ganache, or buttercream.
- You could also add some texture: oreo bits, crumble crumbs, nuts, or fresh fruit for example.
- Finally, you could personalize your frosting.
Be careful, if you’re a beginner baker, having to figure out both your cake design and creating a new cake recipe could be overwhelming. Therefore, I always recommend taking your learning journey one step at a time.
Look for a cake recipe.
Where? You can ask friends, or family or simply look on the internet. You have to keep two things in mind though :
- The recipe has to be suitable for cake decorating, especially for cakes that require stacking or carving (intermediate and advanced cake ideas).
- Once again, if you’re a beginner baker, be careful not to put too much on your plate and choose a recipe suited to your current level.
Use my cake recipe recommendation.
Finally, you could try the delicious recipe I recommend. I firmly believe everyone should have a trustworthy chocolate cake recipe, and my chocolate cake recipe is both beginner-friendly and perfect for cake decorating. I’m sure you’ll love it.
What you will love about this recipe :
- It has a perfect chocolate flavor.
- It’s a really easy recipe, perfect for beginners.
- It has a great texture.
How to follow the instructions of the designs.
For the cake designs in the beginner category: I’ll provide written instructions on how to recreate the cake idea presented to you. Don’t hesitate to watch video tutorials about the basic techniques such as how to smooth a cake.
For the designs in the intermediate category: I’ll provide some guidance on how to perform the more complicated techniques.
For the advanced category: you are an experienced baker, at this point, and you will find great opportunities to put this experience to use. To be completely honest, I cannot make myself several cake ideas from the advanced category, so trust your abilities and go for it.
Find the perfect baseball cake idea for your baking skills.
Growth Tip : If you aim to get better at cake decorating, you should choose a cake idea that feels sligthly above your current cake decorating level. Get out of your comfort zone !
Baseball Cake Ideas For Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy baseball cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Easy Baseball Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
Don’t hesitate to play with colors here so that the cake represents the team you support.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Baseball-themed cake decorations.
- Sprinkles
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Next, chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Use a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges on your cake.
- Finally, add your sprinkles, cake topper, and cake decorations.
What you’ve learned :
Frosting a cake is the first technique any cake decorator should learn to master.
LA Baseball Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
You can easily adapt this baseball cake design to your favorite team by switching the cake topper.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- A piping bag with a small round piping tip (such as the #1 by Wilton)
- A cake topper for your favorite team.
- Popcorn and mini pretzels.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, crumb coat, cover, chill, and cut the edges of your cake as explained in the previous cake design.
- Then, recreate the red details using your round piping tip. I like to previously trace these kinds of details with a toothpick to make sure they’re equally spaced.
- If you’re not used to buttercream piping, you can always practice on a piece of parchment paper before moving on to the cake.
- Finally, add your cake topper and cake decorations.
What you’ve learned :
This cake design is the perfect type of cake to be introduced to buttercream piping. Always start with small details to avoid overwhelming yourself.
Baseball Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
You can also create a more neutral cake design like this literal baseball cake.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- A piping bag with a small round piping tip (such as the #1 by Wilton)
- A piping bag with a grass piping tip (such as the #233 by Wilton)
How to recreate this cake?
- First, crumb coat and cover your cake as explained in the previous design.
- Add the baseball details. Recreate the red details using your round piping tip. I like to previously trace these kinds of details with a toothpick to make sure they’re equally spaced.
- If you’re not used to buttercream piping, you can always practice on a piece of parchment paper before moving on to the cake.
- Add the grass. It’s pretty straightforward, but to get the best-looking result check out this grass nozzle tutorial.
What you’ve learned :
Playing with different piping tips allows you to add personality to your cake designs.
Baseball Cake Ideas Perfect For Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 9 baseball cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Festive Baseball Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
Maybe you’re looking for a more festive kind of baseball cake design, in this case, don’t hesitate to use vibrant colors and sprinkles as shown with this cake idea.
A little guidance
You can easily recreate these fondant baseball decorations using fondant (obviously), a round cookie cutter, and an edible red ink pen.
Baseball Number Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
When celebrating a baseball-themed birthday, a number cake is always a simple but efficient idea. Try to use colors and cake toppers representative of your favorite team or player.
A little guidance
To DIY a number cake, you don’t need to use a special cake pan. You can easily bake one or several sheet cakes and cut them in the shape of the numbers of your choice using a printed pattern.
Striped Baseball Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
Once again remember you can play with the colors to represent the team you support.
A little guidance
Striped cakes are my favorite. They look amazing without requiring too much work. You can easily DIY it following this cake comb tutorial.
Cute Baseball Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
This would be the perfect cake for you if you’re looking for a more simple cake design or a cake idea that doesn’t represent any team in particular, while still making a stunning baseball-themed cake.
A little guidance
If you’re not used to creating your own fondant decorative elements, check out this fondant baseball cake decorations tutorial.
Cookie Baseball Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you can’t choose between cookies and cakes, cookie cakes are a great in-between. They’ll amaze adults and children alike.
A little guidance
If you don’t already have a trustworthy sugar cookie recipe, you can check out my personal favorite, which is the easy no-spread sugar cookie recipe by Preppy Kitchen.
Dodgers Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Maybe you like simple but straightforward cake designs, in this case, you’ll love this version of a baseball cake.
A little guidance
I strongly believe writing on cakes is not for the faint of heart. My best advice is :
- Practice as much as needed beforehand on a sheet of parchment paper.
- Use a toothpick to trace where your writing is going to be placed to get perfect spacing.
Blue Baseball Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
This baseball cake looks quite simple but requires a fair amount of work especially, with these cute fondant elements.
A little guidance
To recreate this quilted pattern on buttercream, you’ll need an impression mat and a skewer. Check out this quilted buttercream tutorial to get a demonstration of the whole process. As for the fondant elements, don’t hesitate to use the fondant tutorial mentioned earlier.
Fondant Baseball Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
I feel like this type of cake is a more adult-like version of a baseball cake. So if that’s what you’re looking for, there’s no need to look anymore.
A little guidance
If you’ve never covered a cake in fondant before, this is the perfect opportunity to practice it. You can follow this detailed tutorial, which will allow you to get sharper edges than with the traditional technique.
Simple Tiered Baseball Cake
Difficulty Level: 4,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
When hosting a lot of guests, tiered cakes are the best option. Don’t hesitate to play with colors, shapes, and heights to personalize them as much as you want.
A little guidance
When making tiered cakes, you have to pay extra attention to the structure of the cake. Therefore, you should always use a sturdy cake board for each tier. You should also support the bottom tier with dowel rods or bubble tea straws cut to the height of the cake. Finally, you should ensure each tier is leveled before stacking them.
Baseball Cake Ideas For Advanced Bakers
These 3 baseball cake ideas will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
Baseball Field Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
This baseball field cake would definitely be a showstopper at a child’s or a man’s birthday party.
Blue And Red Baseball Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
Once again, remember you can have fun and switch colors to your favorite team.
Baseball Rookie Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
This is the perfect kind of cake if you’re hosting a big baseball-themed birthday.
If you’re looking for more cake ideas you can check out one of my other cake ideas for children and adults.
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