Sheep Cupcakes, Farm Baking for Kids

These sheep cupcakes are perfect for your kids to bake during Spring, Easter or for your farm topic! We are working on independence, as always, with my students. This time, I included a flower tray for the decorating process. Each child got their own flower tray. Inside here was their cupcake, icing and decorating pieces. Read on below to find out how we made the cupcakes, and how we used the flower sorting trays.

Recipe

We cheated a little bit this time, and we bought a ready made cake mix. Our children are still new to school, and we don’t like to overwhelm them too much. We try to concentrate on one main area of cooking each week – this will be the weighing out or the decorating. This time we had a lot of decorating to do, so we bought a ready made cake mix.

Ready to use cake mix – or make your own cupcakes
Buttercream icing – either ready made or make your own mixture
Mini marshmallows – white
Giant chocolate buttons
Mini jazzie chocolates – or edible eyes

Equipment Needed

Mixing bowls x 2 (aff. link)
Cake cases (aff. link)
Cupcake tray (aff. link)
Oven
Wooden spoon x 2 (aff. link)
Mug
Tablespoon
Teaspoons x 2
Fork
Sharp knife
Weighing scales (aff. link)
Kids Apron (aff. link)
Flower sorting tray – you can order from my website here or on Amazon (aff. link) here.

Instructions

If you are making the cake yourself – follow your recipe. We used a ready to use cake mix, so we just needed to add eggs and water.

Sheep Cupcakes, Farm Baking for Kids — First, we poured the cake mixture into our mixing bowl.

Next, we needed to put our cake cases into our cake tin.

Once our mixture was smooth, we poured it into the cake cases – using two small teaspoons.

Put the cakes into the oven to bake – following your recipe instructions. Next, we use a sharp knife to cut some of the giant chocolate buttons into thirds to make ears for our sheep.

Once your cakes are cooked, pull them out of the oven and leave to cool.

Time to Decorate!

Then, we make the icing. We use an icing sugar powder, and we just need to add butter and water to the powder to make buttercream icing.

Now is the fun part. Staff made one cupcake as a sheep ready as an example for students. Then, we put all of their decorating items into the flower sorting tray – including a pot of buttercream icing, with their blank cupcake in the middle of the tray.

Students used a metal tablespoon to scoop the buttercream icing up and spread it onto the cupcake.

Then, they used the mini marshmallows to cover the icing around the cake to make wool for the sheep. This was great for working on patience, attention to detail and fine motor skills.

Next, we put some buttercream icing onto the back of a full giant button and placed it on the front of the cupcake to make the sheep’s face.

Then, we added some buttercream onto the back of the ears and placed these onto the cupcake.

For the eyes, we dipped the mini jazzies into the buttercream icing and stuck them onto the giant chocolate button.

And that’s it! You have a completed sheep cupcake. Even though we all had the same instructions, I loved seeing the different ways that the children worked to make their sheep cupcakes.