Baseball Cake or Cupcakes Recipe

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Baseball Cake or Cupcakes Recipe

1 box (16 oz)

Mocha Frosting
1 cup
2 Tb
1 Tb
1 Tb
2 tsp
1 cup

Cake Topper
1 cup
2 strands

Yellow cake mix

Confectioners' sugar
Butter, softened
Coffee-flavored liqueur or cold coffee
Milk
Instant espresso powder
Crushed chocolate cookie crumbs

Prepared white frosting
Red licorice laces

Oven Temp ~ 350° Baking Time ~ 45 Min.
Pan Type ~ 4-inch round and a 9-inch round pan,

Preheat oven, grease and flour pans. Can use large cupcake tins and make into baseballs instead of cake.

Prepare the cake batter according to package directions. Pour 1/2 cup batter into the small round and remaining into the 9" round pan. Bake small round for 20 minutes and round cake for 45 minutes. Transfer to wire racks; cool 10 minutes. Turn cakes onto rack; cool completely.

Using this design to help cut glove shape from 9" round cake.

For the mocha frosting, beat together confectioners' sugar, butter, liqueur, milk and espresso powder until smooth.

Decorating the Cake
Frost glove cake with mocha frosting. Press crushed cookie crumbs onto the side of the cake.

Trim the 4" cake to look like a baseball. Place trimmed cake onto the center of the glove cake and frost it with the prepared white frosting.

Spoon remaining white frosting into a resealable plastic bag. Snip one of the corners with scissors to make a small hole. Squeeze bag and pipe frosting around top and bottom of cake and along fingers of glove. Pipe a few Xs along bottom edge to represent stitching.

Cut licorice laces into pieces and decorate ball to look like stitching.

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