Recipe - Great-Sport Cupcakes

3 Decorating bags
3 Writing tips; 1/6th inch
opening
1 Recipe Rich Chocolate cake;,
see recipe
1 Recipe Decorating Butter
Cream
Black; red, orange, green,
and yellow,
Odcolor r paste

1. Prepare Rich Chocolate Cake (see recipe) as directed for 36 cupcakes.
Bake and cool as directed.

2. Prepare Decorating Butter Cream (see recipe). Remove 1 One fourth cups butter
cream. Tint onethird black, onethitd red and leave onethird white. Cover
each with plastic wrap and reserve for decorating tops of cupcakes.

3. Divide remaining butter cream into thirds. Tint onethird orange,
onethird yellow and leave onethird white. Frost 12 cupcakes with orange
buttercream, frost 12 cupcakes with yellow buttercream, frost 12 cupcakes
with white buttercream.

4. Spoon reserved black, red and white butter creams into decorating bags,
each fitted with a small writing tip (1/16 inch opening each). Pipe black
butter cream on each orange cupcake to resemble a basketball. Pipe red
butter cream on each white cupcake to resemble a baseball. Pipe white
butter cream on each yellow cupcake to resemble a tennis ball. Makes 36
cupcakes.

Recipe by: Good Housekeeping magazine June 1996

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #843 by essie49@juno.com (Ethel R Snyder) on
Oct 13, 1997