Easy Football Cupcakes

Eagles football cupcakes are just what you need for your game day spread and this year, it’s a must for the Super Bowl unless you’re a Kansas City fan! They’re easy-to-make and a fun baking project to make with kids. Go EAGLES!

Living in the Philly area my whole life, it’s hard not to become a raging lunatic Eagles fan. Once I learned how the game was played, you know that whole first down, second down thing, is confusing when you know nothing about football, it’s easy to get hooked on the action and excitement along with all of the yummy game day food like slow cooker chili and Air Fryer Honey Garlic Chicken Wings.

There’s no game I’d rather watch my kids play than American football. When one of my sons was 5 yrs old, he insisted he had to play tackle football, even when he was still in flag football. He got sidelined for tackling in flag football. LOL

So this year 2023, our beloved Philadelphia Eagles are in the Super Bowl again after we had our first EVER Super Bowl win against the Patriots just five years ago in 2018! We only had to wait FIVE years this time instead of thirteen years (2005-2018) or decades- 1981-2005 to play again in the Super Bowl! It’s so exciting!

If you know anything about Philly fans or have seen that movie “Invincible” with Mark Wahlberg, they’re what I call “very passionate” and we’ll just leave it at that. By the way, I met Vince Papale and was taught to play football from him at a work-sponsored event at a prior corporation in which I worked many years ago. He is very nice.

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Eagles Football Cupcakes

These football cupcakes are very easy-to-make and can be used for any football team by dying the batter a different color or adding other team’s cupcake picks.

First, read my tips BEFORE beginning this baking project.

TIP #1: It’s very difficult to draw the lines on the football with icing so, I don’t recommend it. The icing sticks to a toothpick and is very hard to manipulate. Save yourself the time and just get the fine tip edible white marker. 

TIP #2: If you can find canned green icing, consider using it instead of the bagged icing. It’s the easiest to use because you can just insert the star tip, press on the tube and make the grass without squeezing the tube repeatedly for 24 cupcakes. I have carpel tunnel, so that’s much easier and less painful for me.

TIP #3: If you can find Kinder chocolate Easter eggs, use them. They’re smooth chocolate eggs and don’t have the bumpy parts like other brands, which makes it hard to draw a straight line. I used both in this post because I ran out of Kinder eggs. Plus, Kinder is good quality chocolate.

Ingredients

• white cake mix
• 3 large eggs
• 1/4 cup cooking oil
• 1 cup water
• 20-30 drops green food coloring
• 8.5 oz green icing tubes or 2 canned green icing
• 6.5 oz white icing tube 
• fine tip edible white marker

Make the Cupcakes

First, make cupcakes according to boxed directions or use your own homemade cake recipe if you want. I chose white cake mix so that I can dye it green but, you could use chocolate or any flavor you’d like and not dye it green.

I like to use the foil cupcake liners with my muffin tins but, if you use foil cupcake liners, you don’t have to because the foil will keep their shape.

Let the cupcakes cool before decorating them. Meanwhile, decorate the footballs.

 

Decorate the Chocolate Footballs

First, remove the foil coating on each football and try not to eat them so you have enough for the cupcakes.

Be careful not to touch the white lines while you’re decorating the footballs because they’ll smear until they dry. You’re going to do the outer ends first and then the middle stitching. I’ll tell you how below. 

Next, using the white edible marker, draw the lines on the outer ends of the chocolate eggs. Make a semi-circle on one side and then join it to the other side.

Then, draw a white line in the middle with three, smaller lines crossing it as would be the stitching on a football as shown below. Repeat with each chocolate egg and set them aside until the end.

Decorate the Cupcakes

Next, using the star tip of the green icing, pipe it onto the top of the cupcakes in small 1/4 inch stars onto the top of one cupcake so that little or none of the cake is showing. Repeat for each cupcake.

Then, using the white icing with a flat tip, pipe two parallel lines about one inch apart on each cupcake. If you don’t have a flat tip, you can just squeeze it out of the tube, let it dry and then flatten it with a butter knife or leave them roundish.

They’re shaping up nicely already!

Then, place the decorated chocolate footballs in the center of each cupcake with the stitching showing. See the picture below.

Aren’t they AWESOME?! That’s a rhetorical question. Of course they’re awesome.  Go EAGLES! 

They’ll be perfect for your game day food table and will be a great dessert to eat after a yummy slow cooker chili and moist homemade cornbread!

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I took this recipe to Weekend Potluck.