How to Make Easy Baseball and Football Cupcake Toppers
When I was asked to do these football and baseball cupcakes, I knew I wanted them to be sharp, but I also needed them to be pretty easy because I was so busy that week.
Well... these were just about as easy as it gets.
For the baseballs, I rolled out white homemade marshmallow fondant (with a little tylose added to help it dry and not sag on the frosting), and then cut out 2" circles (I have this set of Ateco round cutters that I love!).
I used a red food marker to draw on the stitching lines - how easy is that!?
For the footballs, I used Satin Ice Dark/Brown Chocolate fondant with a little homemade marshmallow fondant kneaded it (it's really dark brown on it's own). I also added some tylose to this fondant.
I cut them out with cutter from the Ateco Football Cutters set. Then I used a mini rectangle cutter to do the tiny white center and used sugar glue to attach it. Then I used a black food marker to do the lines on this cupcake topper.
Note... you see those tiny white specks? That's tylose. I rolled and cut out the shapes a few days ahead and put them on a cookie sheet with tylose sprinkled on, so they'd dry and harden and hold up once laid on the buttercream.
Well, that's all good and fine, except I managed to get it everywhere. And by the time I got ready to put on the finishing touches... I couldn't dust it off. It was stuck there. Ugh. Granted, many people wouldn't notice or care, but I really hated that I couldn't get that dust off of the toppers.
Anyway... these cupcakes were vanilla cake frosted with vanilla buttercream. You can see how I frost cupcakes in the video here. I colored it green using Americolor Leaf Green and I piped it on with a Wilton 1M tip.
Valerie
These toppers are so cute!
Rose
Thanks!
Pamela G.
I wish you had a basketball. I need a basketball for someone who is playing their last season in high school this school year. What's nice about this design is I live in Maryland and they live in Texas and I need to ship these. Cupcakes made like this have a nice flat top which won't become squished (very sophisticated culinary term you know) during shipping. The only thing I can't picture in my head at the moment is how to get that dimpled look that's on a basketball. Other than that I can get the color and make the lines on them.
Rose
They have texture mats that have the basketball texture or even some paper towels would have those dimples you could press into it.