Annabel Karmel’s farm animal cupcakes

To make this cupcake recipe, heat the oven to 180˚C/ 350˚F/Gas 4. Beat together the eggs, vanilla, caster sugar, margarine, and flour.

Line a bun tin with paper cake cases, and half fill each case with the cake mixture.

Bake for 18–20 minutes. When done, the cakes will rise up, turn golden in colour, and spring back when pressed.

For the icing, beat the butter until creamy. Gradually beat in the icing sugar. Then beat in the water. If you’re making the pigs add a few drops of red or pink food colouring for pink icing.

To make the marshmallow sheep, spread a thick layer of butter icing over the top of the cupcakes.

Stick on marshmallows – large for heads, halved for ears, and mini ones for woolly coats. Use writing icing for glue.

To make puppy cakes, stick biscuit ears on icing and use chocolate buttons and sweets for eyes and noses.

To make piggy cakes, stick on a nose made from a large marshmallow and ears made from slices of marshmallow.

Draw the faces on your animals using writing icing squeezed from a tube.

This is what the puppy cakes will look like once decorated.

This is what the piggy cakes will look like once decorated.

And finally what the sheep cakes will look like once decorated.

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