Cute Sheep Cupcakes Tutorial

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I recently made these cute sheep cupcake designs for someone’s birthday. But this is a great project for a baby shower too!

List of Materials

  • 12 cupcakes
  • fondant (white, green, blue, pink, light yellow, brown, light brown)
  • exacto knife
  • small paintbrush
  • small bowl of water (for applying pieces of fondant together)
  • powdered (for rolling out fondant)
  • black edible marker
  • extruder (optional)

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These were the only tools I used for these fondant cupcakes. I did switch from the big fondant roller to a smaller one mid way though

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If you’re covering half of the cupcake with fondant, a quick way is to cut the circles in half so each circle covers 2 cupcakes. It also saves you a lot of fondant when you roll out the big green piece to cut circles out of. Sometimes I need 10 circles and the sheet I rolled out only
fits 9, it’s a waste of time to knead the fondant and roll it out again just for an extra circle.

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I cut out all the shapes free hand. The exacto knife is a must in any fondant decorating. For squares and cirlces, always use a cookie cutter, but everything else try to do it by freehand, it’s what makes your cake design unique and different from everyone else’s.

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All 12 cupcakes are covered with the base fondant, ready to decorate.

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I haven’t found a good set of triangle cutters so I cut my own triangles. You can use an exacto knife, but I like to let the strip of fondant dry for a bit, and I cut it with scissors like it’s a piece of paper. It’s just a lot faster that way for me.

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I used a clay extruder to pipe out the ‘string’ for the happy birthday flag.
But you could roll this out by hand, use royal icing to pipe it on

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The cupcakes are almost done, just need to draw the rest in with the black edible marker!

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That is too cute! I agree this would be great for a little kids birthday or for a baby shower, and it sounds pretty simple to put together too. Thanks for posting pictures of the progress. That really helps beginners to fondant(like myself). Thanks for posting this!