Football Cupcakes

Football Cupcakes

Score extra points with these football cupcakes. Chocolate in green baking cups make you feel like you are on the field with your team!


What you need:

Reynolds® Baking Cups (Green Party)
1 package (18.25 ounces) chocolate cake mix
1 container (16 oz.) ready-to-spread white frosting
Green food coloring
48 small pretzel rods
1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips
24 Caramel candies
1 bag (14 oz.) shredded coconut
 

Instructions:

PREHEAT oven to 350°F. 

PLACE Reynolds Baking Cups in muffin pans; set aside. 

PREPARE cake mix following package directions for 24 cupcakes.  Spoon batter into baking cups. 

BAKE following package directions (17 to 23 minutes).  Cool.

  1. Tint frosting and coconut green. 
  2. Frost cupcakes and roll in coconut; set aside.

Make Goal Posts and Footballs

  1. Line cookie sheet with wax paper
  2. Set aside 24 pretzel rods for base of goal post. Cut each remaining stick into three 1 inch pieces. Score with a knife to get clean, consistent breaks.
  3. Shape caramel candies into footballs.
  4. Melt white chocolate chips following package directions.  Spoon into zipper bag and cut off a small corner.  
  5. Pipe a dot of white chocolate on each end of one small pretzel piece. Attach an additional small piece to each end, making a "U" shape on the wax paper.
  6. Pipe a dot of white chocolate in the middle of  the bottom of the "U" shape and attach a long thin pretzel to complete the goal post.
  7. Place in the refrigerator until set, about 5 minutes. 
  8. While goal posts are setting, pipe thin lines on top of footballs as the strings.
  9. Carefully peel the goal posts from the wax paper and insert into the top of each cupcake.
  10. Place the football in the coconut grass.