Easy Cupcakes

A Mentos candy with stitches drawn with a food-safe pen forms a baseball on this fun cupcake. The bat is a shaped caramel, but you could get the same effect with a Tootsie Roll, Laffy Taffy or other moldable candy. Don’t forget to wash your hands or wear gloves!

What You Need: 1 cupcake; chocolate frosting; wrapped caramel; mint Mentos candy; black food-safe pen.

How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Use food-safe pen to draw stitches on Mentos for ball. Shape caramel into a bat. Place on cupcake.

Have a sports fan in the household? Foil-wrapped chocolate balls make for quick, easy cupcakes whether you’re into soccer, football, basketball or baseball. Also great for team sports events.

What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; chocolate sprinkles; foil-wrapped chocolate sports balls.

How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Add chocolate sprinkles. Stack foil-wrapped balls, using frosting to stick together if necessary.

Baseball season is officially underway. I know because my husband is already yelling at the TV. Here’s a classic way to make cupcakes that look like baseballs. The trick is to use even pressure when you’re piping the lines, and stop squeezing before you pull away.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; red icing in premade tube; plastic round tip or metal tip #2 and coupler.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake white. Using even pressure, pipe two curved lines as shown, and on top of them pipe V shapes for the baseball stitching.