These little Easter Sheep Cupcakes are simply adorable! The baking time for the chocolate cupcakes is only 15 minutes and our cream cheese frosting is super quick, so you’ll get this amazing result in no time!

You need a little bit of time to make the sheep frosting (the sheep wool is actually very easy) and it just requires a bit of patience from your side but the final look is totally worth it!

Ingredients for 10 Easter Sheep Cupcakes:

• 175 g flour
• 125 ml milk
• 60 g sugar
• 60 ml sunflower oil
• 2 tbsp. cocoa
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 2 tsp. vanilla essence
• 1 egg
• ¼ tsp. salt

Ingredients for the Sheep Frosting:

• 200 g cream cheese
• 50 g icing sugar
• 50 g milk or dark chocolate
• 10 g white chocolate

Preparation:

1. Whisk the egg, then add in the sugar.
2. Mix in the milk, sunflower oil, vanilla essence and salt.
3. Sift the flour, cocoa and baking powder. Gradually add them to the mixture and mix until combined.
4. Preheat the oven to 180ºС. Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners.
5. Divide the chocolate batter into the muffin tin cups and fill them up to 2/3 full.
6. Bake for about 15 minutes. Take the chocolate cupcakes out of the oven and leave on a cooling rack to cool.
7. Melt the milk chocolate in a water bath. Transfer into a piping bag with a small nozzle and “draw” sheep heads with ears and legs onto baking parchment (as shown on the picture below). Move the parchment paper onto a chopping board for stability and put in a fridge to harden the chocolate.
8. When the chocolate is already firm, melt the white chocolate in a water bath. Transfer into a different piping bag and make the eyes. You can also add some “wool” on top pf the head and ears, draw hooves or just a few spots on the legs. Place in the fridge again. Use black edible marker or what is left of the dark chocolate to draw the pupils.
9. To make the Easter Sheep Frosting, mix the cream cheese and icing sugar together. Transfer into a piping bag with a nozzle of 0.5 cm and pipe little balls of wool covering the whole surface of the cupcakes.
10. Place four legs and pipe another layer of “wool balls” in the middle to fix them. This way the sheep will look fluffier and more chubby and cute. Top off with the head on one side.

Happy Easter!

Tip: 

When you’re “drawing” the sheep legs with chocolate, don’t make them too thin. The chubbier they are, the easier it will be to take them off the parchment paper and they won’t break or melt so easily. Make sure the chocolate has hardened before you move the figures. If you are not completely happy with the heads and legs while you’re making them, draw a few extra pieces. This way you will pick the best ones for your Easter cupcakes.