Pull Apart Touchdown Cupcakes

24 ingredients
1 steps

Ingredients

  • 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
  • 3 sticks unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly
  • 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup sour cream
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
  • 5 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
  • 3 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 3 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 2 1/2 cups dark green jimmies
  • 15 large marshmallows
  • 2 tablespoons mini chocolate chips
  • 8 chocolate cream covered cookie sticks, such as Pocky sticks
  • One 4.25-ounce tube white decorators' icing
  • 2 small chocolate chewy candies, such as midgie-size Tootsie Rolls, unwrapped
  • 22 fruit-flavored gummy candies in 2 different colors, or 11 chocolate-covered raisins or peanuts and 11 yogurt-covered raisins or peanuts
  • Special Equipment: metallic green, metallic gold and/or dark brown cupcake liners
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Directions

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    ["For the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two 12-cup standard muffin tins with cupcake liners.", "Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a small bowl.", "Set aside.", "Combine the butter, granulated sugar, sour cream, vanilla and eggs in a large bowl and whisk until smooth.", "Stir in the flour mixture until just combined.", "Stir in the chocolate chips.", "Divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups, filling each about three-quarters full.", "Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 21 to 23 minutes, rotating the pans once about halfway through baking.", "Cool the cupcakes in the pans for 5 minutes, and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.", "For the frosting: Beat the butter, peanut butter, vanilla and salt using an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and fluffy, about 2 minutes.", "Gradually beat in the confectioners' sugar and continue to beat until smooth and fluffy, about 2 minutes more.", "For the assembly and decorating: Put 1 cup of frosting in a piping bag fitted with a large round tip and set aside.", "Put the jimmies in a shallow bowl.", "Frost a cupcake, using about 2 tablespoons of the remaining frosting per cupcake, and then gently dipping the top into the jimmies, turning the cupcake until the top is coated.", "Repeat with the remaining cupcakes.", "Arrange the cupcakes in 4 rows on a large serving plate or cutting board.", "Fit a marshmallow between each cupcake, 5 marshmallows per row, to fill in the gaps between the cupcakes in the rows.", "Using the frosting in the piping bag, pipe thick cross shapes between where the cupcakes meet one another and over the marshmallows so there are no visible gaps between the cupcakes.", "Sprinkle with jimmies to coat.", "To make goal posts for the cupcake \"field

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