sweetened coconut for grass
green food coloring
use white frosting to mark the lines and numbers on the football field
frosting in your team's color
plastic drinking straws
small plastic football figures (optional).

To make the grass tint coconut green (click here for how to tint coconut instructions), and cover top of cake with green coconut.

Use white frosting to mark the lines and numbers on the football field.

Frost the ends of the field with your team's color and pipe their name on over the frosting in white.

Make the goal posts out of straws using small blobs of icing to stick them together. Use liquorice tubes to sand the goal posts in.

Add football figures (optional).