Wilton Soccer Ball Pan

 (8 customer reviews)

Great pan! I used it to make a globe cake, so I made two cakes and placed them on top of each other. The pan isn't so deep that the center doesn't cook. It cooked evenly throughout and would work well for any round shaped cake. I recommend this pan.

It takes much longer to bake a cake in this pan than the instructions say--it took a solid hour for the cake to bake completely (one box mix or one average recipe). I was worried that the edges would be burnt before the center was done, and they were quite firm and brown, but not burnt. This pan is useful for making any type of ball cake, and I have used it for my son's soccer and baseball team parties with great success.

I used this pan to make a basketball cake for my son's birthday party last year. It took a lot longer to bake than I expected (nearly an hour), but my yellow cake mix ended up having the texture of a fluffy pound cake. It tasted and "felt" very professional because of the texture. It came out of the pan perfectly, and the large lip on one side of the pan made it very easy to get it out of the oven. The cake was nice and large, yielding at least 15 servings if not more.

While the pan itself has markings for a soccer ball, the instructors include designs for a basketball and baseball (a soccer ball is harder, so the marking for that make it much easier to do). It was very easy to make it a basketball, and kids and parents alike were very impressed with the results.

This pan could be used to make anything that would be a half dome, like a planet, the moon, a disco ball, beach ball, etc. If you were crazy enough, you could make two batches and put them together with...Read more