Sheep Cupcakes

• 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)

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 white icing squeezy writing tubes).
14. Place a tiny chocolate chip(or a blob of black icing) onto each white eye.

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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/sheep-cupcakes-325213 (may not work)