Sheep Cupcakes

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 225 g self-raising flour
• 175 g caster sugar
• 175 g butter
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons milk
• 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)

Recipe

• 1 baking:
• 2 preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius/350 degrees fahrenheit.
• 3 sift the flour.
• 4 mix all ingredients slowly, then fast, for 1 minute, until pale and creamy.
• 5 spoon into muffin-sized paper cases and bake for 15-20 minutes.
• 6 decorating:
• 7 mix first 4 ingredients and beat until pale and creamy.
• 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 place 1 chocolate-covered brazil nut onto each cupcake where you would like the head to be.
• 10 snap a chocolate button or coin in half and place on either side of the head as ears.
• 11 snap the chocolate sticks into 4 pieces and insert each piece into the cupcake where you would like the legs to be.
• 12 place marshmallows all over the rest of the icing.
• 13 place 2 blobs of icing onto each brazil nut for the eyes (or use ready-made icing squeezy writing tubes).
• 14 place a tiny chocolate chip(or a blob of black icing) onto each eye.