These Football Cupcakes are the perfect dessert to serve at your next game day party!
Moist Oreo cookie cupcakes are iced with a delicious, soft buttercream icing and topped with a chocolate covered almond football! No matter which team comes out on top on game day, you will be the real winner when you serve these adorable cupcakes!
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These Football Cupcakes are easy to make and will definitely be a hit at your next tailgate party! Adding crushed up Oreo cookies to the batter really makes these cupcakes extra special!
How to Make Football Cupcakes
Making these Football Cupcakes is easy!
- Preheat oven to 350ËšF. Prepare muffin tins with parchment liners and assemble your ingredients.
- Mix cake batter according to package directions.
- Crush Oreo Cookies then add to the batter.
- Pour into muffin tins and bake.
- Allow cupcakes to cool and make frosting. You can use prepared store bought frosting in a pinch.
- Tint frosting to desired colors and frost cupcakes. I like to use the colors of the opposing teams to frost my cupcakes, but you can simply frost them green for the football turf.
- Prepare chocolate covered almond footballs. This is easily done by inserting a toothpick into the chocolate covered almond. Holding the toothpick, you can pipe the white laces onto the almond. Set on cupcakes.
- Cover and refrigerate until ready to enjoy.
Football playoff season, whether it is in Canada or the US, is usually a cold time of year. So game day parties tend to be extra fun, are the perfect excuse to get together with friends and always come with a ton of snacks or delicious meals!
That is what makes these Football Cupcake so great! They are a super fun way to celebrate the awesome game of football. If you are looking for another quick game day idea, simply make my Easy Puffed Wheat Cake and form into a large football or individual footballs. This classic cake works great transformed into a game day themed treat.
When you have a lot of folks to feed, cupcakes are the perfect solution! Everyone loves an individual treat made extra special for them!
I hope you have success making these Football Cupcakes! They are so fun to make and even more fun to serve!
Other Party Recipes!
- Tomato Mozzarella Basil Skewers – so quick.
- Easy Fruit Dip – family favorite!
- Rocky Road Dip – decadent.
Football Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1 white boxed cake mix
- 3 eggs
- â…“ cup oil
- ½ cup milk
- 12 chocolate Oreo cookies crushed
Icing
- 1 cup butter
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 5 cups icing sugar
- 4 Tablespoons cream
Decorations
- 1 pkg chocolate covered almonds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ËšF. Prepare cupcake tins with parchment cups.
- Combine the cake mix, oil, eggs and milk and mix according to package directions.
- Meanwhile coarsely crush the oreo cookies in a zippered bag with a rolling pin.
- Fold oreo cookie crumbs into cake batter.
- Fill the cupcake tins and bake for 15 min or when a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool on a baking rack.
Icing
- While cupcakes are cooling, cream the butter, vanilla and ½ cup icing sugar.Â
- Gradually add remaining icing sugar ½ cup at a time alternating with the remainder of the cream, 1 tablespoon at a time. Whip until light and fluffy.
- Remove ½ cup white icing for the football laces. Remove ¾ cup icing and tint it green. You can tint the remaining icing whatever color you choose.
Decoration
- Using a spatula, ice the cupcakes with the color of your choice.
- Fill a piping bag with the green icing for the grass. Using tip #67 pipe a small tuft of 'grass' onto each cupcake.
- Prepare a piping bag with the white icing and a tip #2.
- Stick a toothpick into the end of the chocolate covered almond. Holding the stick, pipe the white laces onto the almonds to look like a football.
- Stick the toothpick into the cupcake and press down on the almond so the 'football' rests in the 'grass'
Notes
Nutrition
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