Cow Pies!

I'm involved in the leadership of my church youth group. (Should you like to learn more about my church -The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints- click here).

There is a really old church movie called Johnny Lingo. Now I believe they remade it, but the old one is classic. We watched it this evening as Young Women. Then the girls had tasks to achieve to help them maintain their "8 Cow" status. (These girls are already worth that and more! I just love them!)

I was in charge of the activity and had 8 tasks all ready for them to do with other leaders assisting with them. I was in charge of the cow pies.

Now before you get nervous, it had nothing to do with real cow pies... Well except they did start off brown since I used chocolate cupcakes. ; ) 

I just used a boxed mix and store bought icing (fluffy white & chocolate; the chocolate was tinted with black icing coloring).

But here is a quick photo step by step tutorial of how these  "cow pies" turned into cute little cows. 

Items needed:

Cupcakes

Icing (white and black)

Marshmallows (sliced thin)

Pink chocolate wafers

Chocolate covered raisins

'Eye' sprinkles (or just use black icing)

Here we go!

 (We can have lots of fun! - 10 points to whoever gets that reference.... I just couldn't help singing it while decorating.)

Just frost some white icing onto a cupcake. It doesn't have to be perfect!

I cut marshmallows into thin slices to use as the cow muzzle. I put the sticky side down. 

Did you know there are cute little eye sprinkles?? Well there are! Add 2!

A couple chocolate covered raisins make some pretty fantastic little ears.

A pink chocolate wafer attached with a little pipes icing to the marshmallow makes the nose.

Pipe some black icing (I use chocolate then add black icing gel coloring) to get spots and nostrils. And voila! Cutest little cow ever!

Kinda hoping someone wants a farm themed kids party at some point so I can try out some more animals, and a barn! So friends.... Anyone???? 

: )