Hi All,
I have the wilton soccerball pan and wanted to use the 2 halves to make a ball of wool cake like ones I have seen in galleries here. I can't use the sports ball pan as I need a bigger cake than that. Last time I baked the soccerball pan halves it did not make a perfect round ball shape.
Can I ask how many of you have had success making a round 3d ball shape out of the wilton soccerball pan?
Many thanks
Keira
I've never tried it, in fact I don't have that pan, but I don't think you'll get a sphere by using two of the soccer ball pan cakes. The reason it works with the sports ball is that each half of the pan is actually a half sphere, so when the two parts are put together, it makes a perfect round ball shape.
The soccer ball pan is round, IIRC, but not very tall.
Could you use the sports ball to make the yarn and then put it on a larger base cake?
There are many examples of cakes in the gallery where the sports ball pan is used to make a sphere (sports balls in many cases, but some are other things also) and it sits on a base cake, either a sheet cake or a larger round layer cake.
hth!
Laura.
Thanks for your ideas!
ANYONE ELSE? Has anyone else got the soccerball pan and has tried it for a 3d ball??
I don't have the soccer ball, so I don't know....but...
Is it the same size as a round pan? You could do a single layer round pan and sandwich the soccer ball on both sides and it would be rounder...but the diameters would have t o match, or you'd have to do some carving. Might be just as easy to stack several layers and carve a round out of them.
Thanks guys, but does anyone out there HAVE the soccerball pan?
and if so have you stuck two halves together successfully to make a perfect sphere?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
i have that pan, and i've never tried to make a sphere with it. but to look at it, there is no way putting two together would be a sphere. i would go with the suggestion to use 2 soccer pan halves with a round in the middle. maybe even 2 rounds in the middle to get the right width.
Thanks guys, but does anyone out there HAVE the soccerball pan?
and if so have you stuck two halves together successfully to make a perfect sphere?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't have the pan, but I have looked at it several times in the store, but ultimately decided against buying it because it's not very versatile.
In order to make a perfect sphere, the height of the finished cake will have to equal the width of the finished cake.
Unless your pan is half as deep as it is wide, so that two stacked will make a cake as tall as it is wide, it's mathematically impossible to use two of them to make a sphere.
I wish someone had better news for you about this, but if you're waiting for someone to say it'll work, I think it might be time to start working on "Plan B".
Laura.
EDIT: Here's the information from the Wilton website about the pan. Your finished cake will need to be 8 3/4 inches high to make a sphere, while two full sized cakes stacked will only be 7 inches high. If you can add an extra 1 3/4 inches in the middle with a single cake the right diameter, it might come close to looking spherical with the icing on it . . .
Soccer Ball Pan
Kick off just about any sports celebration with this versatile pan. It moves from soccer field, to baseball diamond to basketball court with ease. A great way to reward a season or even a game well done! One-mix pan is 8 3/4 in. diameter x 3 1/2 in. deep. Aluminum.
You could also try baking two halves in Pyrex bowls. If you use the modified cake mix recipe (that adds a couple of sticks of butter, a cup of flour, some vanilla pudding, etc.) the resulting cake is great for carving. You can carve it into whatever shape you want, and it will be fairly close to spherical to begin with. You have to extend the baking time quite a bit to make sure they are done in the middle, that's all. I've done baseball caps and baseballs this way (although the baseball was baked in a large tin can from pinto beans, just placed into a pie tin; but it goes to show how easy this cake was to carve. It was not hard at all to get a sphere out of the long cylinder I got from the can.)
I would use the sports ball pan and stack it on a sheet cake or round cake. You could make matching cupcakes if you did not want to do that.
I would think making a big ball would be difficult to decorate. I made a volleyball this weekenk and had a terrible time with it!
Good luck! 
THANKYOU EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
I just wanted to be sure about the soccerball pan before I gave up on it for any ball cakes. I will leave it for half balls only.
I do still need to make a perfect sphere shape that is larger than the sports ball pan to make the kitten on ball of wool cake that I need. It has to feed 30. I last used the soccerball pan halves and while it was fine to decorate, the only problem I had was that the ball was not a sphere as it was missing size in the middle. I might try the pudding bowl shaped cakes, I bake that shape regularly but have never tried putting 2 together to make a sphere. I am pretty scared of carving, but will try!
I have used the wiltons ball pan and it works great! I am VERY novice cake decorator and had no problems. I have used it to make a soccer ball, baseball and Christmas ornaments, all went well with just a box cake mix. The size would not feed 30 people however maybe you could make more than one ball of yarn and or put them on a sheet cake as suggested earlier. You could even basket weave the sheet cake. That would be really cute.
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