Sports balls cupcakes

Method

• 1
  Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Line a 12-hole, 1/3 cup-capacity muffin pan with paper cases.
• 2
  Make homemade cake: Using an electric mixer, beat butter, vanilla and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Add flour and milk. Stir to combine.
• 3
  Spoon 1/4 cup batter into each paper case. Bake for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre of 1 comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
• 4
  Make icing: 1 Using an electric mixer, beat butter in a bowl until light and fluffy. Gradually add icing sugar mixture and milk, beating constantly until combined.
• 5
  Divide between 4 bowls. Tint 1 portion red and 1 portion orange. Tint another portion yellow, using yellow food colouring and adding 2 to 3 drops green colouring to create a tennis ball colour. Keep remaining portion white.
• 6
  Spoon 1 tablespoon red icing into a piping bag fitted with a 2mm round nozzle. Spoon 2 tablespoons white icing into another piping bag fitted with a 2mm round nozzle. Set aside.
• 7
  Spread 3 cupcakes with white icing. Repeat with red, yellow and orange icings.
• 8
  To make baseballs: Using picture as a guide, pipe red stitching on white cakes.
• 9
  To make tennis balls: Using picture as a guide, pipe white lines on yellow cakes.
• 10
  To make cricket balls: Using picture as a guide, use the back of a knife to run a line through middle of red cakes. Pipe white stitching on cakes.
• 11
  To make basketballs: Using picture as a guide, pipe black lines on orange cakes.