Each year, my kids and I choose one special dessert to make around Easter time. Easter goodies this year: Chocolate Easter Cupcake Sheep!
This year my kids asked me how I could make a cupcake look like a sheep. It’s not exactly healthy, not at all…but we do not eat things like this too often.
Well, this is what we came up with. They worked very hard and were so proud of the outcome. Notice in the picture that some have marshmallows and some were made with just icing for “wool”.
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp Homemade Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 cup yogurt or sour cream
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease muffin pan or prepare muffin liners.
- Combine softened butter, sugar, eggs, homemade vanilla extract, and yogurt in a bowl.
- Combine cocoa powder, flour, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl.
- Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until combined.
- Fill muffin cups 3/4 full. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Cool before Icing.
- To assemble, add icing so marshmallows will stick. Leave an area without marshmallows in the front for the head. Slice tootsie rolls in half. One half is the head. The other half should be cut into 4 long pieces. Use two pieces for ears and another piece for the tail. Add sprinkles for eyes and nose. Use icing to make the sprinkles stick. This was the tricky part for the kids, but we managed. 🙂
Vanilla Icing
- 1 cup butter
- 1 tsp Homemade Vanilla Extract
- 1 lb confectioner’s sugar
- 2 Tbsp milk
Ice cupcakes and add marshmallows, or if you are using icing to make the wool without marshmallows, pipe icing in wool design.
Add candies as shown:
- Flat round sprinkles for eyes
- chocolate sprinkles for eye balls
- tootsie rolls for head, ears, tail
- marshmallows for body if desired
To assemble, add icing so marshmallows will stick. Leave an area without marshmallows in the front for the head. Slice tootsie rolls in half. One half is the head. The other half should be cut into 4 long pieces. Use two pieces for ears and another piece for the tail. Add sprinkles for eyes and nose. Use icing to make the sprinkles stick. This was the tricky part for the kids, but we managed.
Last year we made Easter Bird’s Nest Cupcakes. They were very simple and a lot of fun.
