Ready for Dunking Cupcake

instructions

Prepare red candy clay.

For basketball cookies, tint cookie dough brown; roll out. (Combine Terra Cotta, Golden Yellow and Brown for brown shown.) Cut with round cutter; bake and cool.

Draw lines on basketball with black FoodWriter. Attach lollipop stick with melted candy, leaving 2 in. at bottom.

Bake and cool cupcakes without baking cups in pan brushed with Cake Release. Trim to 2 1/2 in. high. Cover with melted white candy; let set and repeat. Using royal icing, pipe tip 5 lattice net.

Roll candy clay into 1/4 in. diameter rope. Attach for rim with melted candy. Make small hole in center of cupcake; insert basketball.