Baseball Cupcakes

 

Get ready to hit one out of the park with these assorted baseball cupcakes!  The "official" ball was caught at a Rockies/Padres game last summer and is one of my son's prized possessions.  With baseball season well under way, learn how to make baseball themed cupcakes to take to your little leaguer's game this season.

 The gloves and bats are molded from Tootsie Rolls.  The mini baseballs are made of gum paste.

 Batch of almond flavored white cupcakes:

 Baked just right for 14 minutes.

 I had a bag of Valentine's Tootsie Rolls left over from Valentine's Day.  Actually, I stashed them somewhere and forgot where I put them.  The Tootsie Rolls had three sections and I used two per glove.  Break off two sections and hold in your hand until the Tootsie Roll warms and is easy to bend/shape.

 After forming the basic shape of the glove (think square with top side wider than bottom side).  Then make small cuts using an Xacto knife or scissors to separate the fingers of the glove:

 Press an indent on the bottom edge where the hand would go into the glove and make some lace hash marks along the bottom edge and up the large pad where the thumb goes in the glove.  Roll a small piece of gum paste and place for the ball in the glove:

 The cupcake on the left is smoothed after icing the cupcake on the right.

 Half of the cupcakes were covered with white frosting and the other half was piped with green using a Wilton #233 tip.

Place the gloves/balls and the bats/balls.  The bats were made by kneading Tootsie Rolls and gum paste together and then rolling- thick on one end and thin on the other end with a knob for the bat handle.  Place red frosting in a Ziploc bag and make a very tiny snip at one end to pipe ity-bity stitching on the mini-baseballs.

To pipe the red laces on the baseball cupcakes, take a round cookie cutter and press it into the frosting for each side of the laces.  Then poke small holes using a tool or toothpick for the laces to "insert".  Last, pipe a "v" to connect the dots.  Flip the cupcake around and repeat for the other side.

The indentations in the frosting help you achieve a more realistic baseball rather than piping two red lines down each side and then piping the "v"s.  

Serve these during a 7th inning stretch and you're sure to be a fan favorite.

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