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  • Serves 24
  • 45 minutes
  • Difficulty Medium
  • 12 Ingredients
March 21, 2018

67 Comments

The perfect cupcake with an Easter twist, these delightful Sheep Cupcakes are bound to bring a smile to everyone’s face!


Ingredients (serves 24)

  • 1 box (460g) French vanilla cake mix
  • 3 Large Eggs
  • 1 Cup Buttermilk
  • 1/3 Cup Vegetable oil
  • 6 Oreos
  • 1 Cup Dark cocoa candy melts
  • 1 Can + 1 Cup Premade vanilla frosting (or home-made icing)
  • Neon pink, blue, green, red and yellow food coloring
  • 4 Cups Jelly Belly Spring Mix beans
  • 3/4 Cup Cappuccino, Chocolate Pudding or Root Beer Jelly Belly jelly beans
  • 48 Mini chocolate chips
  • 1 tube (approx. 110g) Chocolate decorating icing

Method

  1. BAKING
  2. Preheat oven to 180°C. Line 24 muffin cups with white paper liners.
  3. Prepare cake mix according to package directions substituting buttermilk for water on packaging directions.
  4. Divide batter between prepared pans and fill each muffin cup about 2/3 full.
  5. Bake 15 to 18 minutes or until golden and toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean.
  6. Transfer to wire rack to cool. Once cool, freeze cupcakes at least 30 minutes to chill.
  7. DECORATING
  8. For sheep heads, remove filling from sandwich cookies. Cut each cookie crosswise with a serrated knife to make 24 2-inch pieces. Line cookie sheet with wax paper. Microwave candy melts in small bowl, stirring every 5 seconds, until smooth, about 1 minute. Coat 2-inch cookie pieces in melted candy, allowing excess to drip back into bowl. Transfer to prepared cookie sheet. While candy is still wet, arrange dark or brown Jelly Belly bean of your choice to either side of flat cut end of the cookie as ears. Repeat with remaining cookies. Transfer to refrigerator to set, about 5 minutes.
  9. Spoon 2 tablespoons of vanilla frosting into pastry or recloseable bag. Divide remaining frosting between five small bowls. Tint each bowl a different pastel colour with food colouring (recommended: blue, pink, orange, yellow and green). Cover bowls of frosting with plastic wrap to prevent drying.
  10. Spread tinted frosting of your choice on top of chilled cupcake to mound slightly. Place coated cookie near one edge of cupcake, round side out. Place like-coloured Jelly Belly beans all over the cupcake to cover. Reheat candy melts and dip short end of the darker Jelly Belly bean into candy and press along side of cupcake as legs to match ears. Repeat with 3 more Jelly Belly beans to finish legs. Make 23 more cupcakes using other tinted frostings and beans.
  11. Trim little top curl from mini chips. Snip a small corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting. Pipe small dots of vanilla frosting for eyes on the head cookie and press trimmed end of mini chips into dots of frosting. Use chocolate frosting to pipe nostrils on the cookies.

Recipe and photography courtesy of Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, authors of Hello, Cupcake!
  • These are amazing. How creative

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  • Oh my gosh these are adorable!!

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  • They are cute but I know they wouldn’t turn out if I did them. Also what have sheep got to do with Easter?

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  • This is lovely idea for kids parties as well.

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  • Not something what U would make myself, but they look really cute !

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  • Call me old fashioned but what do sheep have to do with Easter?

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  • OMG, these are the absolute cutest little cup cakes I’ve seen. They’re a work of art and look too good to eat.

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  • These are so CA-YUTE

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  • I love your presentation.They are so cute and unique! Thanks!

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  • This is so adorable. Thank you for sharing

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  • What a clever idea. They look fantastic

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  • Very cute cupcakes – thanks so much for sharing.

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  • That is really effective, they look wonderful.

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  • Looks so good thanks for sharing your recipe

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  • These look amazing – but maybe a little tough to make

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