Team Ed Cupcakes

I don't know if you've figured this out about me yet, but I play softball. Adult non-competitive, slow-pitch softball. I've been playing my whole life. Well, I used to play a more competitive fast-pitch game when I was younger, but as soon as I turned 18, I entered into this whole new world of recreational sports.

My dad has a team, 5 O'clock Somewhere, and we've been together for about 4 years now. And I have so much to say about this team that I'm going to have to leave it to a separate blog post. A couple years ago, my friend Emily and I decided to branch off of 5 O'clock and form our own younger team with some of our friends from high school and college. We named ourselves Team Ed (E for Emily + D for Deanna = Ed, get it?) Our team has gone through many changes over the past few seasons but it's been a lot of fun and I've learned so much about what it takes to manage a softball team. Seriously, I want to put that on my resume because it's not easy at all.

We had our final regular season game last week. It was a victory and surprisingly got us a spot in the playoffs this week. I'll be out of town so I can't contribute, but I hope you all can send some positive "victory" vibes in the direction of Team Ed on Wednesday night. For last week's game, I baked cupcakes in our team color - Kelly Green. The swirly effect in the frosting comes from filling the pastry bag with 1/2 green frosting and 1/2 white frosting. Squeeze it back into a bowl until the desired coloring starts coming out. I will include the recipe in tomorrow's post as I baked cupcakes for two separate occasions last week.