Sheep Cupcakes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

For the cupcakes
225 g self-raising flour
175 g caster sugar
175 g butter
3 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons milk
To Ice
250 g butter, softened
500 g icing sugar
1 tablespoon hot water
1 tablespoon vanilla essence
2 cups mini marshmallows or 3 cups medium marshmallows
12 chocolate-covered brazil nuts
12 dark chocolate melts (or 12 small chocolate coins)
24 small chocolate chips
12 chocolate sticks (like Matchmakers)

Preparation

Baking:
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius/350 degrees fahrenheit.
Sift the flour.
Mix all ingredients slowly, then fast, for 1 minute, until pale and creamy.
Spoon into muffin-sized paper cases and bake for 15-20 minutes.
Decorating:
Mix first 4 ingredients and beat until pale and creamy.
Pipe or spread a quantity of icing onto each cupcake, to cover the top, keeping back a small quantity to do the eyes.
Place 1 chocolate-covered brazil nut onto each cupcake where you would like the head to be.
Snap a chocolate button or coin in half and place on either side of the head as ears.
Snap the chocolate sticks into 4 pieces and insert each piece into the cupcake where you would like the legs to be.
Place marshmallows all over the rest of the icing.
Place 2 blobs of icing onto each brazil nut for the eyes (Or use ready-made white icing squeezy writing tubes).
Place a tiny chocolate chip(or a blob of black icing) onto each white eye.