Sausage Dog Cupcakes
How to make the face for my sausage dog cupcakes.
Ingredients
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500g Black Ready to Roll Icing
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500g Brown Ready to Roll Icing
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Heart Polystyrene Shape
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250g White Ready to Roll Icing
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250g Coloured Ready to Roll IcingFor the bow
Directions
I made these sausage dog cupcakes for my Sister In Laws 21st birthday party. I don’t normally make anything with fondant so making the sausage dog face was a bit of a challenge. I had wanted to do the face made out of cake but I didn’t have time to do it in time to still be fresh for Friday. In the end I bought a polystyrene heart from HobbyCraft and used this as the base for the head shape. I then used fondant to build on this, sculpting the nose and eyes. Eventually I covered the whole thing in brown fondant and added in the details like the nose and the eyes. I also made a tail out of brown fondant (which was the easiest bit)!
I made 60 chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream to make the body. You can use whatever chocolate cupcake recipe you like. Here is a recipe for vegan cupcakes on the BBC recipe which I can recommend. You can make 3 batches of the BBC recipe to make enough for these sausage dog cupcakes.
If you liked this post you might like this one about how I made a cake for TV which I also had to use fondant for!
The Bow
I made the bow first by rolling out the pink icing and cutting a 15cm strip which was slightly thinner in the middle. Fold the ends into the middle and pinch it to create little folds. Cut a smaller strip and put it round the middle over the seam. Leave aside.
The Eyes
Cut out two circles of white icing, a slightly smaller brown and an even smaller black. Place on top of each other and finish with a little dot of white icing. Make sure both eyes are lined up the same or else your dog will be cross eyed.
The Face
I used the remaining white icing to mould the face as in the photo below. I covered it with rolled out brown icing and made a little black stripe. You can do whatever markings you want. I cut out big black ears and used a little water to stick the ears, patches and eyes on.
I made two brown and two black paws just by shaping the icing into a pear shape and drawing on lines for the ‘toes’ (do dogs have toes?) and finally I made a little tail.
Arrange the cupcakes into a long sausage shape with the face, paws and tail placed around them.
Ingredients
| 500g Black Ready to Roll Icing | |
| 500g Brown Ready to Roll Icing | |
| Heart Polystyrene Shape | |
| 250g White Ready to Roll Icing | |
| 250g Coloured Ready to Roll Icing |
