Football Cupcakes with Beer

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5 from 3 votes

Football Cupcakes with Beer

Beer cupcakes topped with beer buttercream frosting decorated to look like footballs.

Prep Time5

Cook Time20

Total Time25

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cupcakes

Calories: 360kcal

Author: Liz Pollio

Equipment

cupcake pan
Mixing bowl

Ingredients

Cupcakes

1 cup beer
½ cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
2 cups flour
1 ½ cups sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt Diamond Crystal

White Beer Buttercream Frosting

1 tablespoon butter
½ cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon beer

Chocolate Football Frosting

1 stick butter
4 cups powdered sugar
½ cup cocoa powder
½ cup beer

Instructions

Cupcakes

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line cupcake pan with paper liners.
Combine beer, vegetable oil, and eggs, and mix until combined.
Add flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt and whisk until fully incorporated.
Divide batter evenly among 18 cupcake liners and bake for 18-22 minutes.
Cool completely.

White Beer Buttercream Frosting

Beat butter until soft. Add remaining ingredients and beat until smooth.

Chocolate Football Frosting

Beat butter until soft. Add remaining ingredients and beat until smooth.

Decoration

To decorate like footballs, pipe the chocolate frosting back and forth on top of the cupcake, starting with shorter lines and getting longer as you get closer to the center of the cupcake, and then getting shorter again as you get back toward the other side of the cupcake.
Pipe the white frosting in a line length-wise on top of the chocolate frosting. Pipe short, white lines over top across the long line.

Notes

Put a few grains of uncooked rice under the paper cupcake liners to make the baked cupcakes easier to remove from the pan.

If you make the white icing before you make the chocolate icing, both icings can be made in the same bowl. If you make the chocolate icing first, you'll need a clean bowl for the white icing to keep it white!

One 12-oz beer is the exact amount needed for this recipe.

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