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Score Big with Sports Themed Cupcakes!

Whether you are hosting a sports baby shower theme for an All Star Baby or a baseball themed birthday party for your own Little Slugger, these cupcake ideas are sure to score big with your guests. In this lens, I've covered the major team sports like football, baseball, basketball, and soccer as well as some of the individual sports like golf, tennis, and bowling.

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Sports Themed Cupcake Inspiration

A woman makes baseball, basketball, badminton and bowling themed cupcakes for a school event.
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Sports Cupcake Liners

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Sports Cupcake Instructions from Wilton

Step-by-Step Decorating Instructions

Follow these instructions to create soccer, basketball, and baseball themed cupcakes.
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Sports Ball Cupcake Rings

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Sports Themed Cupcake Video

Get step-by-step instructions for making sports cupcakes!

Betty Crocker Kitchens shows viewers how to make tennis, soccer, basketball, and baseball cupcakes to display either in a cupcake tree or on a "turf" created from green colored coconut. You just bake your favorite flavor of cupcakes and make colored icing to make each particular ball. They show you how to make pastry cones out of cellophane for the stitching and ball lines if you don't have a pastry bag.
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Sports Cupcake Sugar Decorations

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Football Pull-Apart Cupcake Cake

Looks like a big cake, but it is constructed from cupcakes!

Score a touchdown with your guests by constructing this football shaped cake from 24 different cupcakes (the extras sit to the side) that you arrange on a platter and then frost the cupcakes with a pastry bag. The video gives great step-by-step instructions.

If you don't have time to bake a cake, opt for a football shaped cookie basket instead. They're still fun and festive.
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Football Cupcake Decorating Instructions

Win big with these adorable football themed cupcakes that you can make by following this instructional video.
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Football Cupcake Idea

These adorable Gridiron Hero Cupcakes from Wilton.com are easy to decorate. Simply visit their site and follow the step by step instructions to obtain the design shown to the right. The great thing is that you can bake up a batch of your favorite cupcake flavor, ice them with flesh colored icing, and then spruce them up through simple piping with a star shaped tip for the helmet and then a pipe tip for the eyes, mouth and nose.

Baseball Cupcakes

These fun Winning Every Inning Cupcakes from Wilton.com consist of regular sized cupcakes to create the baseball caps along with mini cupcakes that are perfectly sized for creating baseballs. Again visit Wilton's site to get the step-by-step instructions. You simply bake up a batch of your favorite standard and mini sized cupcakes from a boxed mix. Then frost the mini cupcakes with white icing and pipe on the red baseball stitching. For the caps, you create the red brim from colored fondant and then ice and pipe the top of the cupcakes with blue to create the rest of the hat. Perfect for a Little Slugger party!

My Favorite Cupcake Tower For Sports Parties

Wilton Sports Cupcake Stand Kit

Wilton Sports Cupcake Stand Kit

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This stand and accessories take all the guess work out of putting together a sports themed cupcake bonanza. The stand measures about 15" tall x 12" in diameter. It is covered in bright cheerful sports themed pictures. Included with the stand are 24 of the 2" baking cups and 24 sports themed cupcake decoration picks. The stand perfectly displays all 24 cupcakes and looks great even after guests start nibbling!

If you'd rather have an all-purpose cupcake tree or stand, check out some of my favorites below!

Great Cupcake Trees

Make A Centerpiece Display Out of Cupcakes!

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Soccer Cupcake Idea

With the World Cup Tournament in South Africa this year, the soccer themed party has been very popular. These Soccer Team Cupcake Treats from Wilton.com are a breeze to make. Just bake and cool your favorite cupcake flavor utilizing the standard Wilton soccer themed baking cups. Then use green icing to create a grass playing field on top the cupcake. Sprinkle on some colorful nonpareils and place a sugar-shaped soccer ball in the grass.

Basketball Cupcake Idea

Score a slam dunk with these adorable Basketball Cupcakes from Wilton.com. To create these delicious treats, you must bake your cupcakes in a king sized muffin tin without cupcake liners. The basketballs are actually iced gourmet cookies on lollipop sticks (like a cookie bouquet) so you can either buy them at a local grocer or online OR make them yourself following the instructions at Wilton. The cupcakes are decorated to look like basketball hoops and then the lollipop stemmed cookie is stuck into the center of the cupcake for a fun presentation.

Cupcake Decorating Books

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Share Your Sports Party Ideas!

I always love to hear from my lens readers....

  • KimGiancaterino Mar 13, 2012 @ 5:27 pm | delete
    Great party ideas!
  • goo2eyes Mar 9, 2012 @ 4:22 pm | delete
    blessings, as usual, for such delicious after-sport party ideas.
  • goo2eyes Mar 9, 2012 @ 4:20 pm | delete
    they are really neat. my sister loves to bake and cater to my big family's needs.
    i will try some of your recipes.
  • RachelDillin Aug 31, 2011 @ 9:37 pm | delete
    I can't wait to make these for my son's next birthday. So cute!
  • MQWilson Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:49 am | delete
    great lens.. I love cupcakes
  • blanckj Jun 10, 2011 @ 6:47 am | delete
    You always have such great ideas.
  • UKGhostwriter May 23, 2011 @ 12:11 pm | delete
    Fantastic source of inspiration, a cupcake for any game, any team!
  • miaponzo Apr 21, 2011 @ 12:39 am | delete
    Great ideas for parties!
  • photofk3 Feb 14, 2011 @ 12:54 pm | delete
    Not only delicious, but full of fantasy.
  • mannasugar Jan 7, 2011 @ 3:06 pm | delete
    It has been said that to be successful in web traffic you must have a sticky (sticky meaning easy to stay on the webpage) webpage, dessertlover has very sticky webpages....I mean with all the cakes and stuff...
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