All Star Sports Cake

6" and 8" blue velvet cake with vanilla butter cream frosting and fondant accents.

I made this cake for my friend's nephew's sports theme birthday party.   Last year, I made him a race car track cake for his hot wheels theme birthday party.  In addition to this cake, I made two dozen of  the very same oreo cupcakes because they were such a huge hit last year.

Inspiration for this cake came from many of the cakes on Cake Central with the same theme.

Chocolate Cupcakes - Two Ways

After last week's hectic schedule, making cupcakes two different ways came together a lot faster than I anticipated.  I was planning to take two days to bake and then frost but finished them while watching Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

Using a devil's food cake (from Martha Stewart's Cupcakes) as the main base, I made s'mores cupcakes and cream-filled chocolate cupcakes.

The s'mores cupcakes had a graham cracker crust (adapted from Annie's Eats) baked underneath the devil's food cupcake which was then topped with chocolate ganache and seven-minute frosting.

The cream-filled cupcakes were filled with a marshmallow cream (from Martha Stewart's Cupcakes) using the cone method and then covered with chocolate ganache.  I used the left over cream to pipe on the swirls.

This picture was too cute to leave out.  Patches wanted to see what I was doing.