The ultimate cake to take to the end-of-season game? Baseball cupcakes!
1. Make cupcakes.
2. Make white icing (powdered sugar, lard, butter flavoring, and a titch of salt). Make it a little thin, with just a bit of meringue powder. This way, it will go on the cupcakes easily, self-level to a smooth, uniform surface, then harden in place. Voila!
3. Use red icing, and a small, round tip to pipe on the stitching - two half-circle lines opposite one another for the seams, like looking at the top of a baseball. Then pipe a series of short "stitches" going across the red half-circles.
4. For a real thrill -- complete with the kind of leaping up and down and spontaneous leg-hugging you get only from excited four-year-olds -- individualize the cupcakes with the kids' jersey numbers. (But be sure to take extras that look *exactly* the same, sans jersey number, for siblings - no matter how cool your other cupcakes look, they will pale in comparison and go untouched.)
So. Easy. Especially if you have either a) help, or b) a press-style decorator. The bag works beautifully, but unless you have calloused tendons from years of cake decorating already, the cramping starts in around the sixth cupcake.
By the twelfth cupcake, I began to appreciate child slave labor.
By the end of two dozen, my hands were shaking so badly, I was certain I'd developed a sudden-onset form of Parkinson's.
Oh, and #5 - take pictures *before* you leave for the party. The cupcakes won't last long enough to get a single shot once you arrive.
Kiss those babies!
~Dy
5 comments:
Great idea! I may copy this if they give enough notice before Katie's end-of-season picnic!
Sounds like a gratifying "SuperMom" moment! :-)
First I hear about tournaments right when I am seeing we have only one more game left. Now you are telling me there are parties as well? Can you e-mail me that icing recipe? SOunds like this is a very easy, very do-able solution.
Wow, end of season already. Here up north the grandbabies have awhile to go. We wish it would warm up here in the tundra of Chicagoland suburbs so we would not freeze at the games. Hmmm... lard as an ingredient, must have been a receipt found within the walls of your forever home down thar in the south when remodeling. ;0) Blessings.
Abiga, I don't envy you guys having so much of the season to go! Hang in there!! As for the lard, well, that's one of our staples. Zorak and I use it because it's all natural, nothing hydrogenated, no artificial colors or chemicals. Good stuff, that. Not to mention, it makes the World's Best Pie Crusts! Yep, lard gets a bad rap in today's world. ;-)
Claudia, I'll call you with the recipe. So. Stinkin' Easy. Use it on KathyJo's chocolate "muffins" and you'll be the Ultimate Team Mom!!
Jennie, sometimes, we need moments like that, don't we? Notice, I didn't mention what happened w/ the actual cake I tried to make... *grin*
Melora, the cupcakes took only about an hour to decorate. We didn't even get them in the oven until almost two! You can do it, and look like you've been prepping for days! LOL!
Dy
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