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We have all the step-by-step directions you’ll need to make these adorable Peppa Pig Cupcakes – cute, fun, and easier to make than you might think.

Closeup on a Peppa Pig Cupcake sitting on a white surface surrounded by pink sprinkles and a pink towel.

If that special little one in your life is clamoring for a Peppa Pig Birthday Party Two Sisters is here to help with your cupcake needs. A cupcake that is cute, delicious, easy to make, and has a secret cookie inside?  Who wouldn’t want Peppa Pig Cupcakes like that? Topped with our delicious homemade Buttercream frosting, this perfectly pink Peppa-themed cupcake will be the hit of your party. So grab the cake mix and cupcake pan and let’s make some cupcakes!

Ingredients You Will Need

All the ingredients you will need to make Peppa Pig Cupcakes including cupcakes, buttercream frosting, food coloring, pink sugar wafers, mini marshmallows, candy eyes and cupcake liners.

How to Make the Cupcakes

12 chocolate cupcakes sitting on a white table in front of a cupcake tin and a black and white towel.

Step 1: Make a batch of cupcakes.  You can use a cake box mix, we have all the instructions you’ll need to make them taste just like homemade right here. Or you can make them from scratch with our yummy Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes recipe.  We used chocolate cupcakes but Vanilla Cupcakes would taste great too. We used dark pink cupcake liners to represent Peppa’s dress.

How to Make the Frosting

Closeup on a clear glass bowl filled with homemade buttercream frosting sitting next to a piping bag filled with frosting.

Step 2: The key to these delicious cupcakes is our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe.   It is light and creamy and buttery and super delicious! You will find the recipe and directions here.  One batch of frosting will be enough to frost 18 cupcakes.  Once you have the frosting made, split it into thirds.  One portion will be used to frost the cupcakes, the other two will be in decorating bags and will be used decorate the cupcakes.  So the portions will not be equal.  We split up the frosting as follows:

Pink:  1 1/3 cups
Bright Pink : 1/3 cups
Red: 1/3 cup

Collage image showing the food coloring formulas for making pink and red frosting.

Step 3:  Tint the butter cream frosting Pink, Bright Pink and Red. We used Wilton Color Right Food Coloring in the follow formulas:

  • Light Pink (used to frost the cupcakes) – 2 drops of Wilton Color Right Pink Food coloring
  • Medium Pink (used to outline the Peppa Pig Cookie) – 4 drops of Wilton Color Right Pink Food Coloring
  • Red (used for Peppa Pig’s mouth, cheek, and nose) – 7 drops of Red food coloring and 3 drops of Crimson food coloring.

Preparing the Marshmallows and Sugar Wafer Cookies

Collage image showing how to prepare the mini marshmallows and the pink wafer cookies to use on the cupcakes.

Step 4: We used Mini Marshmallows to create Peppa’s ears. We sliced them in half diagonally. You’ll get two ears out of every mini marshmallow.
Step 5: We used Pink Sugar Wafers to create Peppa’s snout.  We cut each one in half, and then round off the edges of one side with a sharp knife.  You will need one of these for each cupcake.

How to create the Peppa Pig Cupcake

Collage image showing how to add the cookie snout to the Peppa Pig Cupcakes.

Step 6:  Once the cupcakes cooled, we cut a slit in the cupcake for the cookie snout.
Step 7:  Two Sisters Tip:  before you put the cookie in the slit in the cupcake, frost that area of the cupcake.  It’s too hard to do it after the cookie is already attached to the cupcake and you need the frosting underneath the cookie to prop it up.
Step 8:  Slip the pink wafer cookie into the slit on the cupcake.  It will rest on the frosting.
Step 9:  Use a knife to frost the rest of the cupcake with a generous amount of light pink frosting. 

Collage image showing the exact steps on how to assemble the Peppa Pig Cupcakes.

Step 10:  Smooth the frosting over the whole cupcake to even it out.
Step 11: Add a tiny dollop of frosting on the sticky sides of the cut mini marshmallows.
Step 12:  Stick the ears onto the top of the cupcake, frosting side up.  
Step 13:  Now add the Wilton Candy Eyeballs.

Collage image showing how to decorate the Peppa Pig face on these peppa pig cupcakes.

Steps 14 and 15: We took the medium pink frosting and put it into a piping bag with a small Wilton #3 Decorating tip,  and then we outlined the entire face and around the eyes.
Step 16: Finally, we used the red frosting to make Peppa’s smile, the blush on her cheek, and her nostrils.

Closeup on three Peppa Pig Cupcakes sitting on a white surface, surrounded by pink sprinkles, in front of a pink table linen and pink frosting.

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Peppa Pig Cupcakes

Yield 18 cupcakes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 18 minutes
Additional Time 20 minutes
Total Time 53 minutes

We have all the step-by-step directions you'll need to make these adorable Peppa Pig Cupcakes - cute, fun, and easier to make than you might think.

Ingredients

  • Cupcakes
  • Cupcake Liners
  • 1 batch - The Best Buttercream Frosting
  • Food Coloring - Red, Pink
  • 10 Mini Marshmallows
  • 18 Pink Sugar Wafer Cookies 
  • 36 Monster Candy Eyes

Instructions

  1. Make a batch of cupcakes. 
  2. Make a batch of our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe. 
  3. Tint the butter cream frosting Pink, Bright Pink and Red. We used Wilton Color Right Food Coloring in the follow formulas: Light Pink (used to frost the cupcakes) - 2 drops of Wilton Color Right Pink Food coloring Medium Pink (used to outline the Peppa Pig Cookie) – 4 drops of Wilton Color Right Pink Food Coloring Red (used for Peppa Pig’s mouth, cheek, and nose) – 7 drops of Red food coloring and 3 drops of Crimson food coloring.
  4. Slice Mini Marshmallow in half diagonally for the ears.
  5. Prepare the Pink Sugar Wafers for the snout.  Cut each one in half, and then round off the edges of one side with a sharp knife.  You will need one of these for each cupcake.
  6. Once the cupcakes cooled, cut a slit in the cupcake for the cookie snout. Before you put the cookie in the slit in the cupcake, frost that area of the cupcake.  It's too hard to do it after the cookie is already attached to the cupcake and you need the frosting underneath the cookie to prop it up.
  7. Slip the pink wafer cookie into the slit on the cupcake.  It will rest on the frosting.
  8. Use a knife to frost the rest of the cupcake with a generous amount of light pink frosting. 
  9. Smooth the frosting over the whole cupcake to even it out.
  10. Add a tiny dollop of frosting on the sticky sides of the cut mini marshmallows.
  11. Stick the ears onto the top of the cupcake, frosting side up.  
  12. Now add the Wilton Candy Eyeballs.
  13. Place the medium pink frosting into a piping bag with a small Wilton #3 Decorating tip and then outline the entire face and around the eyes.
  14. Finally, use red frosting to make Peppa's smile, the blush on her cheek, and her nostrils.

Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!

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Cuisine: American / Category: Cupcakes