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Prep Time: 30 Minutes Cook Time: 20 Minutes |
Ready In: 50 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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I mixed a few ideas to mak these cupcakes, and they went down a storm at the Findon Sheep fair in Sussex, UK. You could use what ever chocolate you can find for the head, ears and legs. I thought that they looked pretty cute with just the eyes, but you could add a red icing smile or tongue, and nostrils. You can also use a little tubes of writing icing for the white and black of the eyes. 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) |
Directions:
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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