An easy-to-follow tutorial on how to make your own football-themed, decorated cupcakes.  Also included in this post are recipes for my favorite chocolate and vanilla cupcake recipes and the BEST buttercream frosting!

WHAT YOU NEED:

• Cupcakes
• Frosting – divided into two bowls
• Green food coloring
• Wilton frosting tips 1A and 234
• Chocolate footballs

CONSTRUCTION:

• Separate the frosting into two bowls, one natural colored and one with added green food coloring.  Add the white frosting into a piping bag fitted with Wilton 1A tip.  Add the green frosting to a piping bag fitted with Wilton 234 tip.
• Position the white frosting piping bag straight above the naked cupcakes.  Gently apply pressure to apply a swirl of white frosting.

• Take the piping bag with the green frosting and hold it at a 90-degree angle and gently squeeze and pull up in tiny bursts to make short pieces of frosting that resemble grass, partially covering the white frosting.
• Top with a chocolate football.  I used a football candy mould and used chocolate melts to make my footballs.

RECIPES:

• Chocolate Cupcakes (makes one dozen but can easily be doubled)
• Vanilla Cupcakes (makes two dozen)
• Vanilla Buttercream Frosting (this recipe is enough to frost 4-5 dozen cupcakes depending on how liberal you are with the frosting)

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