tennis ball cupcake
What You Need: 1 cupcake; frosting tinted tennis ball green (mix green and yellow); white writing icing or gel.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Pipe U-shaped curve as shown. That’s it!
Baseball season is officially underway. I know because my husband is already yelling at the TV. Here’s a classic way to make cupcakes that look like baseballs. The trick is to use even pressure when you’re piping the lines, and stop squeezing before you pull away.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; red icing in premade tube; plastic round tip or metal tip #2 and coupler.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake white. Using even pressure, pipe two curved lines as shown, and on top of them pipe V shapes for the baseball stitching.
Get ready for the Final Four (Go Bruins!) with these easy basketball cupcakes.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; icing tinted orange (if you want your icing to have a “rust” look, try adding a little red paste dye to your orange frosting); black writing gel.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake orange. Use black writing gel to “draw” two semi-circles with a line in between them, as shown.
We found a foil-wrapped chocolate football in a local candy shop and couldn’t resisting adding just one more Super Bowl cupcake to those previously posted here, here, here and here.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); green frosting; pastry bag with star tip or prepackaged icing tube with star tip; white writing icing; chocolate football.
How to Make It: Using green frosting in bag or tube, with star tip attachment (we used metal tip #21), cover top of cupcake with green stars for “grass.” (Stop squeezing before you pull away.) Use white writing icing to pipe horizontal line and write “50″ for the 50 yard line. Immediately add chocolate football.
Easycupcakes.com has several ideas for Super Bowl cupcakes that would also be great for any football party. This is probably the easiest. It’s just chocolate frosting and some white icing “stitches”!
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); chocolate frosting; white icing in pastry bag or prepackaged tube with round tip OR try cutting the corner off of a plastic sandwich bag and pipe the lines out of that.
Perfect for a Super Bowl party or after any big game, these football cupcakes won’t be “passed” over. (Sorry, bad punt, uh, pun.)
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); chocolate frosting; white icing and green icing (tinted and in pastry bag with piping tip #3 or use prepackaged colored icing tubes such as those by Wilton or Cake Mate).
How to Make It: Frost cupcake with chocolate icing. You’re actually going to create the look of a football by piping green icing in such a way that it leaves an oval shape in the brown part of the cupcake. (You can “draw” an oval with green or just eyeball it.) Use piping tip to make grass by: scribbling back and forth OR holding tip at 90-degree angle and pulling up OR you can use a pastry bag and metal tip #233 to make the most realistic grass. The pictured cupcake was made using a combination of the easy scribbling and pulling up techniques. Finally, pipe white line with four shorter lines crossing over it in center of cupcake for ball’s stitching.
Superbowl Sunday is coming up Feb. 3, 2008, and what better way to celebrate Super Bowl XLII than to serve up football themed cupcakes. Even if your Super Bowl party guests are too busy yelling at the TV screen to appreciate these tiny football fields, at least you’ll have fun making them.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); white icing; icing tinted green; white or off-white icing for piping lines in a pastry bag with round tip (such as #3) OR premade decorator’s icing in a tube OR just snip the corner off a plastic sandwich bag; chocolate Necco wafer or other round or oval brown candy.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake using green icing. Pipe 2 white lines parallel to one another. Pipe shorter white line perpendicular to lower line. Pipe “5″ and “0″ to show the 50 yard line. Pipe white “stitching” on candy to make football, and place ball on top of the cupcake.
