Sheep Cupcakes

16 ingredients
14 steps

Ingredients

  • For the cupcakes
  • 225 g self-raising flour
  • 175 g caster sugar
  • 175 g butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons milk
  • To Ice
  • 250 g butter, softened
  • 500 g icing sugar
  • 1 tablespoon hot water
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla essence
  • 2 cups mini marshmallows or 3 cups medium marshmallows
  • 12 chocolate-covered brazil nuts
  • 12 dark chocolate melts (or 12 small chocolate coins)
  • 24 small chocolate chips
  • 12 chocolate sticks (like Matchmakers)

Directions

  1. 1
    Baking:
  2. 2
    Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius/350 degrees fahrenheit.
  3. 3
    Sift the flour.
  4. 4
    Mix all ingredients slowly, then fast, for 1 minute, until pale and creamy.
  5. 5
    Spoon into muffin-sized paper cases and bake for 15-20 minutes.
  6. 6
    Decorating:
  7. 7
    Mix first 4 ingredients and beat until pale and creamy.
  8. 8
    Pipe or spread a quantity of icing onto each cupcake, to cover the top, keeping back a small quantity to do the eyes.
  9. 9
    Place 1 chocolate-covered brazil nut onto each cupcake where you would like the head to be.
  10. 10
    Snap a chocolate button or coin in half and place on either side of the head as ears.
  11. 11
    Snap the chocolate sticks into 4 pieces and insert each piece into the cupcake where you would like the legs to be.
  12. 12
    Place marshmallows all over the rest of the icing.
  13. 13
    Place 2 blobs of icing onto each brazil nut for the eyes (Or use ready-made white icing squeezy writing tubes).
  14. 14
    Place a tiny chocolate chip(or a blob of black icing) onto each white eye.

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