The Princess Cupcake was a hold-out for tball this season.
She was not down with the idea of playing in the Texas heat claiming that the “sun would get in her eyes” even with her cap on.
Inspired by NY Yankee Andy Pettitte, at the last possible second she shunned her previous plans for retirement and joined her teammates for another season of Eagles tball.
It wasn’t without trials and tribulations. She developed a healthy aversion to (wait for it) dirt… while playing in pitcher position and declared that swim goggles should be allowed for all future match-ups.
Not that I disagree. Entirely.
With a little coaxing, she completed the season with her respectable batting average in tact and that meant it was participation trophies and cupcake time.
If you remember two years ago I took a stab at 3-d baseball cupcakes. In THEORY, a cute idea. Executing was my own sort of challenge so last year I went with the photo cookies of each of the players. Too time consuming for my fast-paced summer. I’m back to the basics.
1. Chocolate cupcake
2. Homemade buttercream frosting
The secret to this cute present is in the decoration of the baseball cupcakes.
Here’s how you can make these cute cupcakes too:
- Put the buttercream on your cupcakes as normal.
- Let them sit for a few minutes — but not long enough to watch an episode of Castle.
- Get a metal spatula out and warm it up under really hot water.
- Wipe off the hot water and use the edge of the spatulata to scrape the top to make it smooth.
- You’ll still have spackle lines but here’s the secret. Grab a paper towel – it MUST be the kind without quilting – and gently lay it on top of the buttercream and smooth out the surface.
- The rest is easy. Pipe your red buttercream into lady curves on top of the ball, then take a fondant scraper (mine looks like shark teeth) and every so slightly indent the red seams to look like stitches.
- I bought individual cupcake boxes from Wilton and put green shred in first (just on the sides), then the cupcake. If you’re weirded out about paper being in the cupcake box, you can always color some coconut green and put that inside instead to make it all food-friendly.
- I made some stickers with my printer, whole sticker sheets and my 2-in whole punch and boom…. Done.
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