Sheep Cupcakes

These sheep cupcakes or Easter cupcakes are the cutest you’ve ever seen and so easy to make with your kids! Perfect dessert or for a boy or girl first birthday party. Here’s how you make them and other fun Easter games and treat ideas too.

Awwwwww, I know right! It’s fun to creative with desserts. I am not a big bake from scratch kinda’ person, except when it comes to my caramel bread pudding recipe. I start with a cake mix to make the cupcake base and go from there once they’re cooled. I chose a white boxed cake mix this time but spice cake would be good too.

Lamb Chop Cupcakes is another thing that comes to mind, if you too loved this loved puppet back in the day. Of course your kids wouldn’t have any idea what or whom you were talking about but I do. 😉 When it comes to baking with kids and making Easter dessert ideas it needs to be easy, and fun.

You can bake all 18 out of the box or a small batch of air fryer cupcakes just so everyone gets one after dinner. These fit the bill on both regards.

Video

I am going to show you several photos of how this was done AND the video above so there is no guess work here. We are all about EASY and fun around the holidays. Great for boys and girls to make and enjoy these, they’re perfect for a first birthday party too.

A pretty gender neutral bit of cuteness really, there isn’t anyway who doesn’t just say “awwwwe” when they see these. You’re going to start by just baking cupcakes as you normally would. I use boxed mix but that is up to you.

How to Make Sheep Cupcakes

Allow them to completely cool and then add some frosting, like this. White is best so the other items can really stand out with the colors and all. Vanilla or cream cheese are usually my go tos. I don’t really like the whipped variety because it isn’t as thick and doesn’t cover as well, just personal preference.

Now use mini marshmallows and slice them diagonally like you see here, these will be the ears. The fluff on the outside will be halved white marshmallows.

You could use whole mini marshmallows for the outsides but they will stick much better if they are in half and lay nicer as well.

Just a tip when spreading frosting and working with kids: have them use the back of a spoon to smooth it on instead of a knife. Not really for safety reasons per say but it is easier to maneuver it on this way. You can slice the pieces if kids are very young and the candy eyes come in the package already looking like this.

Things You Need

For the nose there are many options you could use. I thought a pink candy ball like a sixlet was perfect just because it was cute and well I have all girls. You could totally use blue if boys were making these with you to change things up a bit.

Cake mix or homemade cake mix + the ingredients to make cake batter. You could use any flavor you like but here I just went with white because that was the desired color of the animal overall.

Small white and pink marshmallows will make the top look “fluffy” and like their wool when it covers the top. I cut each one in half so it sticks better.

White frosting you can buy in a tub or homemade with powdered sugar and a bit of milk. Use the back of a spoon to smooth it on to each one so it covers the surface but isn’t too thick.

Candy eyes you can find online or in bakery section of your grocery store now too with the other decorations which is rather handy.

I highly recommend that you line the holes with Cupcake liners so they slide right out.

I just layed them into a basket with grass and some filled Easter eggs around them for the big day which was a fun treat for them.

Tips

You can make a whole batch of cupcakes using the entire boxed mix, or use our recipe for 6 cupcakes like this if it is just a rainy day activity with you and your kids. Bake ahead of time and give each child a plastic knife with their marshmallows so once they frost their cupcake they can see it transform into this animal of their own!

Having adults over for the occasion? Want to make them something special to go along with this “theme”, make some air fryer lamb chops of course. 😉

If you loved this one you should try making our ladybug cupcakes too, butterscotch haystacks we make this time of year in the shape of nests with chocolate eggs in the center. You can make other cute Easter desserts here and kids can finish this Easter word search if you have a larger gathering.