Week 5: Half & Half Football Cupcakes

So I have been a little busy so I took the easy out and found a very simple recipe.  However the easy way out, in my eyes wasn’t so good in the end.  Others enjoyed the cupcake; however, this has got to be my least favorite cupcake.  

I got the original idea from http://paintedpreppy.blogspot.com/2012/01/valentines-day-inspiration.html and http://www.cutefoodforkids.com/2012/01/26-football-shaped-food-ideas.html. 

This recipe involved brownie mix, strawberry cake mix and two cans of frosting (one chocolate & one vanilla), plus your normal eggs, oil and water that the boxes call for.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line cupcake pans with cupcake liners. 
3.  You mix brownie mix according to box in one bowl and mix the strawberry cake according to box in another bowl.
4. Fill the cupcake liners about 1/3 filled with the brownie mix.  Then fill the liners to about 2/3 fill with the strawberry mix.  You will have extra mix, as it makes more than 24 cupcakes.
5.  Bake in oven for the shortest time on the cake mix box.  Cupcakes will be done when you insert a toothpick and it comes out clean.
6. Let cupcakes cool completely.
7. Once cupcakes are cooled, using Wilton tip 18 and the chocolate icing move in a s shape but very close together.  Then I used my icing writers from Avon to make the white lines.

It is a pretty easy recipe, and doesn’t take long to make.  When I ran out of chocolate icing, I just used the white icing.

Love always, aloterella :)