Out of the Park Baseball Cupcakes
Baseball/softball is a bit later around our area this year due to the pandemic. How much fun would it be to take these baseball cupcakes to the next game for the team afterward? I am sure the coach and players would enjoy them.
Ingredients
- 1 cake mix box
- 3 Eggs
- 1 cup milk whole
- ½ cup butter unsalted, sweet cream
Vanilla Frosting ingredients
- 1 cup butter unsalted, sweet cream
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 drops of leaf green gel food coloring
- 1 medium ice cream scooper
- 1 mini angled spatula
Baseball fondant piece
- 1 box of white vanilla fondant
- 1 tube of red cookie icing
- 1 disposable piping bag fitted with a number 2 tip
- 1 3 inch round circle cookie/fondant cutter
- 1 cup powdered sugar to dust cutting board
Instructions
Cupcake directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a cupcake tin with cupcake liners
- Using a standing mixer, combine all cupcake ingredients and beat on medium speed until combined, smooth and fluffy
- Scoop batter into the cupcake liners about 3/4 full
- Bake in the oven for 21 minutes
- Once baked, allow cooling completely
Baseball fondant piece directions
- Sprinkle powdered sugar onto a cutting board
- roll out fondant into 1/2 inch thickness
- Use the cutter and cut out 22 circles
- Squeeze the cookie icing into the piping bag
- Pipe out the lines of the baseball onto the fondant piece
- Allow to dry while you finish the cupcakes
Vanilla frosting directions
- Using a standing mixer, beat all ingredients on medium to high speed until creamy, fluffy and stiff with peaks
- Using the ice cream scooper, scoop 1 mound of frosting onto the cupcake
- Using the angled spatula, spread it slightly to cover the entire top of the cupcake
- Carefully place baseball fondant piece into the center of the frosting
- Repeat steps with remaining frosting and enjoy!
Nutrition
Serving: 1cupcakeSodium: 286mgCalcium: 49mgVitamin A: 438IUSugar: 19gFiber: 1gPotassium: 92mgCholesterol: 57mgCalories: 253kcalTrans Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gSaturated Fat: 9gFat: 17gProtein: 2gCarbohydrates: 26gIron: 1mg
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