Vickys Kids Easter Cupcakes/Farmyard Cake Decoration Instruction

Name: Vickys Kids Easter Cupcakes/Farmyard Cake Decoration Instruction
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 21 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 pre-baked base cake from any cake recipe you like, 1 or 2 layers. Mine is a 1 layer 10" square; 9 cupcakes from any recipe you like; 150 grams butter/dairy-free spread; 350 grams icing/powdered sugar; 3 tbsp milk / alternative; flavouring as required; food dye in green, pink and yellow; 3 large marshmallows, halved; 6 mini pink marshmallows, halved; 18 chocolate chips for eyes; 12 orange buttons sweets like Jelly Tots for beaks & feet; 1 little cocoa powder; pink and red coloured glimmer sugar; black & pink writing icing tubes; mini chocolate eggs and any other toppers you wish to use ie fences, animal shaped cookies or marshmallows, sugarpaste flowers etc for base cake

Vicky@Jacks Free-From Cookbook @allergyfriendlycook

Scotland

A fun project that the kids will just love to help with!

Vicky@Jacks Free-From Cookbook @allergyfriendlycook

Scotland

A fun project that the kids will just love to help with!

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Ingredients

30 mins

21 servings

1pre-baked base cake from any cake recipe you like, 1 or 2 layers. Mine is a 1 layer 10" square
9cupcakes from any recipe you like
150 gramsbutter/dairy-free spread
350 gramsicing/powdered sugar
3 tbspmilk / alternative
flavouring as required
food dye in green, pink and yellow
3large marshmallows, halved
6mini pink marshmallows, halved
18chocolate chips for eyes
12orange buttons sweets like Jelly Tots for beaks & feet
1little cocoa powder
pink and red coloured glimmer sugar
black & pink writing icing tubes
mini chocolate eggs and any other toppers you wish to use ie fences, animal shaped cookies or marshmallows, sugarpaste flowers etc for base cake

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Steps

30 mins

1

First make the buttercream by mixing the butter and icing sugar together until combined. Add as much milk as required to loosen the mix so it's spreadable and flavour with a few drops of extract of your choice
2

Split the buttercrean into 4 equal parts. Colour one part pink, 1 part yellow and 1 part green
3

Spread the green buttercream over your base cake, not quite to the edges so it looks like grass over soil. Let it stand while you ice the cupcakes
4

Ice 3 cupcakes pink, 3 yellow and 3 with uncoloured buttercream
5

Go back to the base cake. Using a fork, flick all over the setting buttercream so it goes a bit spikey to resemble the grass better
6

Do the same to the yellow cupcakes to make fluffy feathers
7

Dip the large mallows, sticky side down in the glimmer sugar and press into the middle of each pink and plain cupcake
8

Push the orange button shaped sweets into the yellow cupcakes to make the beaks and feet of the chicks
9

Push in the chocolate chips above the noses and beaks to make the animals eyes
10

Press the halved mini mallows onto the tops of the plain cupcakes stick side down to make the cows ears
11

For the pigs, pinch the mini mallows to make them into an oval shape and press them in sticky side up
12

Pipe 2 black dots of writing icing onto the cows snouts to make nostrils. Do the same to the pigs but use pink
13

Mix a little cocoa with any leftover plain buttercream and use it to make the splodge markings on the cows faces
14

On my base cake I used a sugarpaste barn, duck shaped marshmallows and mini chocolate eggs. It would be another idea to use chenille easter chicks, plastic fences or other toy animals, let your imagination pave the way!

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Vicky@Jacks Free-From Cookbook @allergyfriendlycook

on February 23, 2013 16:01

Scotland

Check out Amazon for Jacks Free-From Cookbook Volume 1 - Cakes & Cupcakes exclusively on Kindle!!Everything I post is free from gluten, dairy, eggs, soy and most are peanut and tree nut-free too. Check out my facebook page, Jacks Free-From Cook Book, for more recipes and related posts.I'm a mother of 3 wonderful children, one of which has serious food allergies. The recipes I post are made specifically with my son in mind so we can all enjoy the same family meals together and he so isn't left out of any occasion.I hope I can help others in the same situation and show you that where there's a will, there's a way!