Today at the Red Hot Household we’re holding our annual end-of-summer party. Coincidentally, this year the event happens to fall on my uncle’s birthday, so I thought it would be nice to make cupcakes. Then I realized it’s also Joey Votto’s birthday, so heck, why not make him one too?

I suppose if I were a true fan, I would have at least used red icing, and/or made the cupcake look like a baseball or maple leaf or something. But I’m not that obsessed; I’m just a woman with an extra cupcake and a rudimentary knowledge of baseball players’ birthdays.