Easy Superbowl Football Cupcakes

Let me show you how to make Easy Superbowl Football Cupcakes - Perfect for the big game! Your family and friends will love these chocolate cupcakes with green buttercream grass and chocolate peanut butter footballs on top.

Whether you need a sweet treat for your super bowl party or even a birthday party, these grass frosting cupcakes are just the ticket. If you prefer chocolate frosting footballs instead of the green frosting, try these chocolate football cupcakes.

Easy Superbowl Football Cupcakes - Perfect for game day!

To be perfectly honest, I'm not a huge football fan. But my husband and his friends really enjoy watching the super bowl, so super bowl Sunday here we come. And you know I love to bake anything with a cute theme! These cupcakes are also a perfect halftime snack.

Ingredients:

Cupcakes: You'll need one dozen of your favorite cupcakes (you can use a mix or make them from scratch, scroll to see my recipe suggestions).

For the frosting (The homemade buttercream recipe I'm sharing in this post is simply the perfect butter to sugar ratio):

Butter: Use unsalted butter, softened to room temperature. I usually set it on the counter the night before I bake or at least a few hours before.

Powdered Sugar: Also called confectioner's sugar or icing sugar. If you use the kind that comes in a 2 lb. plastic bag, you won't have to sift it.

Heavy Whipping Cream: If you don't have heavy cream, you could use half and half or unsweetened coconut milk (in a can).

Vanilla Extract: Pure vanilla extract is best. Don't use vanilla flavoring because it doesn't taste as good.

Green Food Coloring: Green gel food coloring works best. You can find this in the baking section of your local department store (such as Wilton brand) or online (look for Americolor or Chefmaster).

Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs: Such as Reese's (available before Easter time which happens to coincide with Super Bowl season). If you can't find them, you could make footballs out of chocolate fondant or use Tootsie Rolls.

Let's talk about cupcakes

You have several options here. Use your favorite cupcake recipe or cake mix. I actually used the Simple Mills Almond Flour Chocolate Muffin mix for these cupcakes. There are some good recipes on my blog that you could use too. You could totally make Aunt Emily's Chocolate Fudge Cake into cupcakes. If you'd like to make them gluten free, you could make this Chocolate Drip cake into cupcakes as well. It's a super moist and delicious recipe! You could also make vanilla cupcakes, if you prefer.

How to make Easy Superbowl Football Cupcakes

This is just an overview, scroll to see the full recipe.

First you make your cupcakes, either from scratch or with a cake mix. For that extra football field theme, use green cupcake liners for your cupcake batter. Bake as directed and place on a cooling rack.

Next, whip up your homemade buttercream frosting using an electric mixer. Tint it green (reserving a small amount of white frosting for the football laces).

Pour into pastry bag fitted with a grass piping tip such as the Wilton #233. I like the Wilton 16" disposable decorator bags.

Once you pour the frosting into the pastry bag, secure the end with a bag tie or rubber band. Now you're ready to pipe grass.

Holding the bag at a 45° angle, gently squeeze as you pull away from the cupcake and release. Repeat until the top of the cupcake is covered with grass frosting.

Now for the chocolate footballs. If using the Reese's chocolate eggs as your mini footballs, then just pipe the laces on with white buttercream poured into a pastry bag fitted with a #3 round tip. If you can't find the chocolate eggs, you could use Tootsie Rolls or make your own egg shaped mini footballs out of chocolate fondant, then pipe the laces with buttercream frosting.

Cake decorating tips for your game day cupcakes

To achieve the grass frosting, you will need to use a Wilton pastry tip #233 which are available at any craft or department store that has a cake decorating section.

For the football laces, you will need a Wilton #3 round pastry tip.

You will also need two pastry bags. I like the disposable Wilton 16-inch pastry bags.

Cut the tiny corner off of each bag allowing just enough room to stick the pointed end of the pastry tips through the narrow opening of the bag. Then pour the green frosting into the bag fitted with the #233 tip and the white frosting into the bag fitted with the #3 tip. Do not overfill the bags. Secure ends with a twist tie or rubber band.

Pipe the green frosting onto your cooled cupcakes, starting on the outer edges and working in circles until you reach the center. Place the chocolate egg in the middle (flat side down). Pipe one line in the middle and four smaller lines across to look like the football laces.

Enjoy your cupcakes while watching the big game or wait until the end. They can either be a celebratory treat or a little pick me up for the ending you weren’t expecting. Either way, they are incredibly good!

May the best team win!

Tools for success

KitchenAid Mixer

Zeroll Standard Scoop for Muffins or Ice Cream - For scooping cake batter into muffin pan

Wilton No.233 Decorating Tip, Multi-Opening

Wilton 402-3 No. 3 Round Piping Tip (2pk)

Wilton 12-Cup Muffin Pan

Wilton 16-inch Disposable Decorating Bags Set, 4-Pack

Foil Cupcake Liners, Baking Cups Standard Muffin Wrappers for Party, 100 Pack (Green)

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