Football stadium cake

For the cake:

1. Preheat your oven to 350 F / 180 C / Gas mark 4 and lightly spray a 9x13 casserole dish or cake tray with non-stick cooking spray.
2. Whisk together the vegetable oil and sugar in a large bowl until fully combined.
3. Stir in the eggs and continue whisking until fully incorporated and then mix in the vanilla extract and almond extract.
4. Sift in the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and use a spatula to combine until the dry ingredients are just incorporated.
5. Then carefully add in the buttermilk and mix until just incorporated. Avoid over-mixing otherwise you’ll end up with a dense cake.
6. Pour cake batter to the prepared dish and bake for 35-40 minutes or until a skewer or toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Make the frosting:

1. Make the frosting whilst the cake is baking. Add the butter to a mixing bowl and use an electric hand mixer or stand mixer with the whisk attachment and whip the butter and half of the powdered sugar on low until thoroughly combined.
2. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl and then add in the remaining powdered sugar. followed by the salt, heavy whipping cream and vanilla extract. Mix everythin gon high for about 10 minutes or until the mixture is smooth and fluffy. It will look chunky at first and you’ll think you messed something up but trust the process and keep beating.
3. Remove about ½ cup of the frosting and set aside.
4. Add the food coloring and beat until it’s completely incorporated.
5. After the cake has cooled completely, use an offset spatula or the back of a spoon to smooth the frosting over the top of the cake.

To assemble:

1. Cut a piece of parchment paper to about 6 inches wide and place it in the center of the frosted cake.
2. Sprinkle the exposed sides of the frosted cake with the nonpareil sprinkles and then carefully peel back the parchment.
3. Add the white frosting to a piping bag or resealable bag and cut a small piece off the corner of the bag.
4. Draw a straight, horizontal white line, across the center of the green part of the cake to represent the 50 yard line. Label with a 5 on one side of the line and a 0 on the opposite side.
5. Make 2 additional horizontal lines on either side of the 50 yard line to represent the 30 and 10 yard lines respectively and label them 30 and 10 in the same manner that you did the 50 yard line.
6. Slice and serve.