Baseball Cap Cake

My first Baseball Cap cake....

I had bought a Wilton sports ball pan and wanted to try out the baseball cap cake. I used a 6 inch pan and one half of the sports ball pan to create the dome part of the cake, and I filled the cake with buttercream. I actually found this cake to be pretty simple, just a lot of detailing needed to be done (but that's my favorite part anyway).

Creating the Cake
After filling and frosting the cake I colored my Fondant to get as close to the "Yankees blue" as possible. I covered the cake in Fondant, and cut the Yankee logo out of Fondant as well (just traced it from an image I found on the internet). I also found an image of the MLB logo on the back of the hat and did my best to draw that by hand. Using a paintbrush and some gel food coloring I painted the Logo half blue and half red like the real thing.

Prior to putting these pieces on the cake I had to do the hat stitching. I had read online that Wilton sells a "stitching tool" but I couldn't find that in any stores, so i created the "stitching" using the end of a crocodile clip because it had the perfect half moon shape. It was important to keep a steady hand though. To create the "vent holes" in the top of the cap I rolled six small balls of fondant, flattened them between my fingers, and pressed the end of the skinny paintbrush into them. All extra pieces were attached to the cake using gum paste glue (real easy to make...put a piece of gum paste into a shallow bowl of water).

For the hat brim, I traced the brim of a real hat onto wax paper and then cut the brim out of fondant using the wax paper template. It was also important to use the empty half of the sports ball pan to make sure the brim would fit securely to the edges of the round cake. I saw some recommendations online that you let the brim dry a few days in advance to create "bended brim look" but I was going for more of a fitted hat look and I think it came out just fine. Although I attached the brim using gum paste glue, I wouldn't recommend doing that because it created a glossy line where the brim attached and since it is made of fondant it wasn't really going anywhere anyway. I then used the same tool to create three lines of stitching along the brim. I found it so helpful to look at an online image of a baseball cap while I was working on this cake, and Im sure it would be even easier if you have a baseball cap lying around the house.