Ball Game Cupcakes Recipes

EASY FOOTBALL CUPCAKES RECIPE

Steps:

• Before you start decorating, ensure that all of your cupcakes are cool to the touch. It's easiest if you cool them on a wire rack.
• Begin by making your buttercream "grass" frosting. With an electric mixer, add butter, confectioners' sugar and milk, beating on low, gradually increasing it to high speed.
• Once the ingredients are well-combined and smooth, add your green gel food coloring and mix until completely tinted and well mixed.
• Assemble your frosting bag so that it has Wilton tip #233 and scoop your buttercream frosting into it.
• Frost each cupcake gently so that it looks like grass.
• Separate your chocolate fondant into twelve one-inch spheres. Mold them so that they have football shapes.
• With your white decorating frosting, pipe out the football's "laces" on each fondant piece.
• Place one football fondant piece on each cupcake. Serve and enjoy!

BALL GAME CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. In small bowl, toss chocolate chips with 1 tablespoon of the cake mix. In large bowl, beat remaining cake mix, water, oil and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, then on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Stir in coated chocolate chips. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups (about two-thirds full).
• Bake 20 to 26 minutes (23 to 30 minutes for dark or nonstick pans) or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Decorate as desired below. Store cupcakes loosely covered. Baseballs: Frost cupcakes with vanilla frosting. With black, red or blue icing, pipe 2 arches on opposite sides of cupcakes, curving lines slightly toward center. Pipe small lines from each arch to look like stitches on a baseball. Basketballs: Color frosting with yellow and red food colors to make orange; frost cupcakes. With black icing, pipe line across center of cupcake. On either side, pipe an arch that curves slightly toward center line. Soccer Balls: Frost cupcakes with vanilla frosting. With black icing, pipe a pentagon shape in the center of cupcake, piping a few rows of icing into center of pentagon. Pipe lines from pentagon to edge of cupcake to look like seams. With toothpick or spatula, spread black icing in center of pentagon to fill in the entire shape. Tennis Balls: Color frosting with yellow and green food colors to make tennis-ball yellow; frost cupcakes. With white icing, pipe curved design to look like tennis balls.

EASY FOOTBALL CUPCAKES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pan with cupcake liners. I used green for a grass field look, but you can use your team colors!
• 2. Combine cake mix, eggs, oil and milk and stir until smooth.
• 3. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 15-20 minutes.
• 4. Let cool.
• 5. FROSTINGS: Beat butter, vanilla extract and powdered sugar until smooth. Remove about 1/4 cup to keep as your "white" frosting for the football threads. Continue to add milk and cocoa powder for your "brown" football frosting.
• 4. Watch video above to see how to pipe frosting!

BALL GAME CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F (325 degrees F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 24 muffin cups. Make cake batter as directed on box - except gently stir chocolate chips into batter. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups (about 2/3 full).
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Decorate as desired below. Store cupcakes loosely covered at room temperature.
• Baseballs: Frost cupcakes with vanilla frosting. With black, red or blue icing, pipe 2 arches on opposite sides of cupcakes, curving lines slightly toward center. Pipe small lines from each arch to resemble stitches on a baseball.
• Basketballs: Color frosting with yellow and red food colors to make orange; frost cupcakes. With black icing, pipe line across center of cupcake. On either side, pipe an arch that curves slightly toward center line.
• Soccer Balls: Frost cupcakes with vanilla frosting. With black icing, pipe a pentagon shape in the center of cupcake, piping a few rows of icing into center of pentagon. Pipe lines from pentagon to edge of cupcake to resemble seams. With toothpick or spatula, spread black icing in center of pentagon to fill in the entire shape.
• Tennis Balls: Color frosting with yellow and green food colors to make tennis-ball yellow; frost cupcakes. With white icing, pipe curved design to resemble tennis balls.