Don’t say, “One shaped like a football with chocolate icing!” That’s just too obvious.
This is a party with my coworkers, who I have often baked for before. I like to bake from scratch, and I especially like bakingbites.com.
Things you should know:
–no one is gluten intolerant/vegan/etc
–I have cake flour and buttermilk that I might like to use
–The host, Ric, is a Cardinals Fan
–I really really hate making cupcakes
Thoughts?
Allrecipes.com has the dorkiest, lamest, most cliched party ideas for all occasions, and yes, football shaped food for the superbowl is at the forefront. They do recommend something from Florida be included this year (besides the inevitable wings/dip/pizza), and if you put in ‘key lime’ in their search engine you will get a long list of cakes, pies, and cheesecake. Men seem to prefer chocolate or chocolate chip, though. And three of them asked I buy a Snickers Ice Cream Cake from Carvel for The Big Day.
If your host is a big Cards fan, I would suggest a Red Velvet Cake.
Buffalo Wing Cake?
Are you proposing a cake shaped like a Buffalo Wing or flavored like a Buffalo Wing?
Guinness cake with ganache frosting, can’t go wrong (but you need a bundt pan). If you don’t tell anyone it has Guinness in it, you’ll get a ton of complements on it, if you DO tell people, you’ll hear a lot of “Dude, there’s beer in this cake*, yeah, I can totally taste it**” and you’ll still get a ton of complements on it.
*I realized the way they say it doesn’t come through in the post, they’re aren’t saying it likes it’s gross, they’re saying it like they just ran out of beer and you just walked in with a case of PBR.
**you can’t taste it at all
The only “kind” of cake that matters is size. Make a BIG cake. People will be there to watch the game. They don’t care what they eat as long as it’s reasonably edible and there’s plenty of it.
This actually sounds good. Do you mind PMing me the recipe?
Or just posting it, if you don’t mind? Sounds pretty good!
I don’t know from sports-related things, but I do like parties for any reason. One of mine that always gets raves is banana-split cake. Use whatever banana cake recipe you like, quarter strawberries and get some pineapple tidbits and lay about one cup of fruit pieces on top of the batter before sliding it in the oven. They’ll sink about halfway down and be suspended in the cake.
Whip up your favorite fluffy white frosting (I cheat and get one from GFS that’s kinda like a whipped cream icing) recipe, pipe on in swirls and whorls so that it looks sorta like whipped topping. Drizzle the peaks and valleys with chocolate and butterscotch syrups and dot with maraschino cherries. Sprinkle with chopped nuts if desired.
Depending on how creative you get with the icing, it can look fabulous, and all the fruit keeps the cake really moist.
That stadium pan s pretty sweet (Red sugar for Cards on one side, black for the Steelers on the other side?), but for $25? I don’t think so.
Damnit, Baking Bites, I said no football shapes with chocolate frosting: http://bakingbites.com/2009/01/chocolate-football-cakes/#more-2857
This is pretty much my favorite cake to make, the Zebra Cake! http://bakingbites.com/2008/07/zebra-cake/#more-2190 Food coloring to make it black and red? Do I really want to overload my coworkers (and possibly my boss) with food coloring that may surprise them later in the bathroom?
maaaaaan, where is your sense of adventure … 
My coworker Michele and I get along quite well, except where cakes are involved. She bakes too. It is kind of a rivalry. If I colored everyone’s poo, I think she would win. And I can’t let that happen.
Aw, c’mon, what fan wouldn’t be proud to say they were so devoted to their favorite team that they even CRAP team colors?
I’d throw people for a loop and bring German meat cakes or crabcakes. But I don’t have much of a sweet tooth, and at a Super Bowl party I want things that will go with beer.
Au contraire! If you colored everyone’s poo, you win. Who else goes to the trouble of taking decorating to such a level? I’d be impressed. 
Team-colored poo would be soooo COOL!
Yes. I’d go for a savory cake, with lots of bacon. That says Superbowl party to me, at any rate – I once hosted a Superbowl party where the only non-meat items on the menu were potato chips and beer. Mmmmmm… meat. Mmmmmm… beer.
Whatever cake you make, you must mix it in a receptacle that is nothing less than brilliant.
