My sister-in-law plays and coaches tennis. It's a large part of her life. So as her 30th birthday approached and I discussed plans for her cake with my brother, we both thought a tennis ball cake would be very fitting. I decided to reprise Dad's basketball cake, just with a different color scheme. This time, it was even easier, because there was no fondant.
I baked a standard yellow cake. This time I knew it would take about an hour in the oven, so I didn't worry. I mixed up a pretty light yellow buttercream, left a little white, and make just a bit of green. After the cake was cooled and leveled, I made the white lines of the tennis ball and then used the 3 star tip to fill in the body of the ball. Tennis balls usually have the name of the manufacturer written down the middle. (I googled lots of pictures of tennis balls to make sure I got it just right.) But I was nervous about trying to write an entire name in cursive - I stopped writing cursive after elementary school. So I decided just to write Leslie's first initial, a large capital L, ala Laverne and Shirley. I debated the border around the bottom of the cake and thought that grass would be fitting. My brother thought Leslie would appreciate the Wimbledon reference. And the cake was done.
I thought the color scheme was really pretty and very appropriate for a spring birthday. This cake was one of my proudest accomplishments yet.
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