At first I was a bit wary of preparing this Soccer Cake as I was not sure about how to do the ball shape, however, it was easier than I expected (except that the hexagon shapes are tricky to do yourself without a cutout or something similar).
I just prepared one 9″ by 13″ chocolate cake and covered it in green tinted butter icing, then I tinted some coconut in green and sprinkled it over the top and sides.
I found some handy silicon half sphere shape at the supermarket and prepared 5 half spheres small cakes (you know just in case something were to go horribly wrong I would have spares). Once these had cooled down I cut off the domed bit to make perfect hemispheres and stuck two together with some jam and toothpicks.
Lastly, I bought ready make icing tubes in white and black, I had a handy cookie cutter in a hexagon shape and I pushed it into the cake to make the patterns, placed the ball cake onto a glass for support until I iced it (I did not ice it all the way round as it would not show anyway).
Lastly, I made a small hollow in the cake to place my ball and finished off in black and white in places where the icing was still missing.
It still looks good and it was a smashing party too!