football cupcakes

How To Make football cupcakes

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  Cupcakes:
  Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cupcake tin with 24 paper liners.
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  Mix everything together in a large bowl on medium-high speed until you get a thin batter.
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  Pour the batter into each liner, filling it 3/4 full.
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  These cupcakes don’t rise much, so its better to put more batter in, rather than less.
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  Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cupcake comes out clean.
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  Cool cupcakes completely on a wire rack before frosting.
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  Chocolate Frosting:
  Mix softened butter and cocoa powder together until it has becomes a thick brown paste.
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  Add the powdered sugar, vanilla, and heavy cream to the butter mixture and beat until all ingredients are incorporated and smooth.
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  Add more cream if the frosting is too thick.
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  The frosting should be creamy enough so that it can be piped out easily onto the cupcakes.
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  Pipe about 3 Tablespoons worth of frosting onto each cupcake. Set aside.
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  Gingerbread Football Cookies:
  In a large bowl, cream together the margarine and sugar until smooth. Stir in molasses and egg yolk.
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  Combine the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg; blend into the molasses mixture until smooth.
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  Cover and chill for at least one hour.
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  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
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  On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to a 1/4″ thickness.
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  Cut into 1-2 inch football shapes. (All you need is 24 football shaped cookies, you can use the rest of the dough for whatever you’d like- or freeze the dough and reuse for a later date, like I did).
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  Place the cookies 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
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  Bake for 8-10 minutes at 350, until firm.
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  Remove from cookie sheets and cool on wire racks.
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  Use your favorite royal icing recipe and pipe laces across your gingerbread football cookies.
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  Optional:
  Color some shredded coconut with green food coloring for “grass”.
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  To Make Grass:
  Put coconut in a small bowl add 2 to 3 drops of green food coloring and mix until all the coconut is colored. Add more food color as necessary.
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  Top each Football Themed Cupcake with some “grass” and a Gingerbread Football Cookie.
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