Farm Animal Cupcakes..Well Pig cupackes

So I've not posted in yonksss due to my exams etc. They're all done now *insert bbm dancing face*, thank god! So i thought I'd give you a post a wrote weeks ago but never got round to publishing...

Well since the baking disaster a few weeks ago I decided to make pig decorated cupcakes. Although I'm not planning on eating them, I'm sending them to my mums work for her to sell to the staff for charity...I don't think I could deal with the amount of calories I'd end up consuming after one ! Well basically I'll give you a step by step of my pig cupcakes.

1. I made some basic vanilla cupcakes and the ingredients I used are below:
100g SR Flour
100g Caster Sugar
100g Butter/Margarine
2 Eggs
Tea Spoon of Vanilla Extract

Here is a step by step guide on how to make them: Gas Mark 180 for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown

1. Cream the margarine and caster sugar together with either a fork or electric whisk
2. Add the vanilla extract, eggs and sieve in the SR flour to make it light and fluffy
3. Then mix together with a fork or electric whisk until the mixture is light all mixed in
4. Then fill the cupcake cases up until about half way..this recipe should make 11/12 depending on how much you fill each case with
5. Then place then in the oven until golden brown

2. Once the cupcakes are baked leave to cool until they are cold enough to ice, otherwise the icing will slide off

3. To make the butter cream for the top of the cakes the ingredients are below:
175g of Icing Sugar
75g of butter
1tbsp of milk

The method is below:
1. Mix with a fork the icing sugar, butter and milk together or use an electric whisk however be prepared for the icing sugar to go everywhere!
2. Once the mixture is relatively runny and there are no lumps of icing sugar add gradually drops of the pink food colouring until you get to the desired pink
3. Make sure you mix thoroughly to have all the butter cream the same colour

4. Have 2 bowls one with marshmallows and one with milk chocolate drops

5. With a palette knife or any other knife scrape the butter cream until you have an even coating, you can then take the case off and smooth the edges to a round shape

6. Then cut the marshmallows in half with the top of the marshmallow pointing upwards to create the ears, apply butter cream onto the back of them and stick them to the side of the cake

7. Lay the marshmallows on their side and cut down the centre to create a round shape, this will then be the nose and should be placed on the cake

8. Two chocolate drops should be used for the eyes and then two more with butter cream underneath need to be attached to the marshmallow nose

9. Then repeat all these steps to create your own pig cupcakes