This soccer ball cake is easy to make. To create the soccer ball shape I used a approximately 8" Stainless steel bowl, and an 8" round cake pan. You may use glass bowl but you have to reduce cooking time. This is how I assembled my soccer cake. The naked cake... As you can see there are 3 layers to this cake. The bottom layer is 8" round cake. The top layers are just one bowl shaped cake that I split into two sections. I stack the layers first to see how they fit together. I noticed that the middle layer overhangs a bit on the 8" round cake. I trimmed off the excess cake using a sharp carving knife. Each layer is filled with chocolate buttercream. Chocolate crumb coat... This part can be omitted since we are applying the buttercream with an icing tip. I crumb coated chocolate for added flavor because having just the white vanilla icing is too boring. Do not worr