Apple Football Cupcake Recipe

Glass bottle of foodie flavours apple essence, apple flavoured football themed cupcakes with bright green piped grass

Recipe

Apple Football Cupcakes

Fresh, Fruity and Ready for Kick Off. Match Day Cupcakes for Football Fans

These apple flavoured football cupcakes are a winning bake for World Cup watch parties and team celebrations. ⚽🧁 Each soft vanilla cupcake is topped with vibrant green buttercream, flavoured with Apple Natural Flavouring and piped through a grass nozzle to create a miniature pitch. Finish them with iced footballs, boots and your favourite decorations, then serve to friends and family before the action begins.

You can even swap the apple for different flavours, colours and toppings to match your team and create a personalised match day lineup.

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Apple flavoured football themed cupcakes with bright green piped grass

Ingredients for apple and vanilla cupcakes

A hand holding a bottle of Gorilla Vanilla Pure Organic Vanilla Extract over a bowl of yellow batter, with a metal measuring spoon visible.

bottle foodie flavours apple essence held inverted drops being dispensed

Light green apple flavoured whipped frosting or cream being stirred with a spatula inside a dark mixing bowl.

A close-up of a green cupcake liner containing a baked cupcake, with bright green frosting being piped onto the top and side. Another cupcake is partially visible in the background on a neutral surface.

A styled flat-lay of green-frosted cupcakes, some topped with football decorations, alongside a piping bag, a bottle of Foodie Flavours apple on a grey surface.

A close-up of a cupcake topped with bright green whipped frosting and a small white football decoration, held by a hand against a blurred background.

Ingredients

Cupcakes

200g Caster Sugar
170g Unsalted butter, at room temperature
2 Large Eggs, at room temperature
3 Tbsp Vegetable Oil
1 Tsp Gorilla Vanilla Extract
200g Self Raising Flour, sifted
100ml Whole Milk

Buttercream

300g Icing Sugar, sifted
150g Unsalted Butter, at room temperature
30 Drops Foodie Flavours Apple Flavouring
Green Gel Food Colouring
Edible Football Decorations

Instructions

Servings 12 / Prep time 40 mins / Cook time 20 mins

Cupcakes

Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan and line a cupcake/muffin tray with 12 cases.
Cream together the sugar and butter in a bowl until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, mixing in between each.
Mix in the oil and vanilla extract.
Fold in the flour and the milk.
Fill each case approximately 2/3 full and bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes.
Leave the cupcakes in the tray for 5 minutes, then remove and cool on a wire rack.

Buttercream

With a handheld or stand mixer, beat the butter for 5 minutes until pale and spreadable.
Add half the icing sugar and beat until combined. Repeat for the rest of the icing sugar adding the apple flavouring at the same time.
Beat the buttercream for 5 minutes. If the buttercream is too stiff to pipe, add a little milk.
Colour the buttercream green.
Add the buttercream to a piping bag fitted with a #233 grass piping nozzle.
Begin piping buttercream strands around the edge of the cupcakes, working your way into the centre.
Place edible football decorations on top and enjoy!