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With many good games front loaded in the college football schedule, week 3 is typically a cupcake week for most teams. Wake Forest is certainly one of those teams as they’ll follow up their big win at Duke with a 6:30 kickoff against the Delaware Blue Hens. We’re ready to go ahead and call that one in favor of the Deacs, and they’ll be 3-0 with the inside track towards bowl eligibility for the first time in, well, it feels like it’s been a while.

It would be too easy to just think “cupcakes” for a dish to celebrate cupcake week, and because Wake is a team that’s typically on the other end of those match-ups, I’m doing something different. We projected the Deacs to the Sun Bowl earlier this week, so let’s double-down on the Tex-Mex and make mini-taco Sun Bowls as a culinary nod to the Old Gold and Black. And, of course, let’s use a cupcake tin so we’re being true to this week’s slate of games.

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This dish certainly isn’t rocket science, which makes it a perfect nod to Dave Clawson’s approach to winning football games. Keep it simple. Take a small cupcake tin and coat it well with cooking spray, and definitely take the time to make sure it’s spread evenly with a paper towel. Grab a wonton wrapper and carefully push it down into the cupcake tin making sure that the wrapper doesn’t tear, depending on what you’re going to fill it with.

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You can certainly use a dry, seasoned ground beef as your bottom later, but not everyone in my house likes red meat which is fine because not everyone at Wake Forest likes football. I use a blend of Mexican cheeses and fill the wontons to the top, leaving just enough room for some diced red peppers and jalapeños.

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Put them in the oven at 375 degrees and let them cook for about 18-20 minutes, which is the amount of real time it takes for Wake Forest to play one quarter of football. The cheese melts down in the oven which leaves room to re-top the wontons with shredded cheese and a dab of sour cream.

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That’s how you make Wake Forest-inspired mini-taco Sun Bowls using wontons and a cupcake tin. Go Deacs.