Trending:

Make with kids: Annabel Karmel’s farm animal cupcakes

GoodtoKnow
  • We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article.

    • The kids are going to love making these farm animal cupcakes. To make a batch of 12 farm animal cupcakes it will take 50 mins to prepare and decorate and 20 mins to cook. This recipe makes 3 different farm animals; pigs, dogs and sheep using marshmallows and other sweet goodies.

    Annabel Karmel says: ‘They really are the sweetest animals on the farm!’ To decorate the cakes you will need: Marshmallows, biscuits, chocolate buttons, colourful sweets and tubes of writing icing. Not forgetting some food colouring for the pink pig cupcakes!

     

    Ingredients

    For the cupcakes:

    • 2 large eggs
    • 1 tsp vanilla essence
    • 110g caster sugar
    • 110g soft margarine
    • 110g self–raising flour

    For the icing:

    • 110g butter, softened
    • 250g icing sugar, sifted
    • 1tbsp water
    • Food colouring

    Recipes taken from My Favourite Recipes by Annabel Karmel (published by DK, £8.99)

    This is an image 1 of 12

    Step 1

    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.

    This is an image 2 of 12

    Step 2

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

    This is an image 3 of 12

    Step 3

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

    This is an image 4 of 12

    Step 4

    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.

    This is an image 5 of 12

    Step 5

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

    This is an image 6 of 12

    Step 6

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

    This is an image 7 of 12

    Step 7

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

    This is an image 8 of 12

    Step 8

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

    This is an image 9 of 12

    Step 9

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

    This is an image 10 of 12

    Step 10

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

    This is an image 11 of 12

    Step 11

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

    This is an image 12 of 12

    Step 12

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