How to Make Dog Cupcakes

When my little one asked for Dog Cupcakes, how could I say no?! I came up with this easy tutorial for how to make puppy cupcakes and the kid was so happy, she was over the moon! And isn’t that just the best feeling, when you’ve presented your kiddo with something and they’re so excited.

Plus, this turned out to be such an easy cupcake recipe, I made a whole set for her class. I mean, if it made one kid happy, why not 18?! What a day that was!

If you’re wanting to make this dog cupcake recipe for a crowd, you can absolutely buy some fondant, but I like to make my own with this easy recipe for marshmallow fondant that I found. Just a couple of minutes in the microwave and this fondant is ready to go!

But, of course, you could also use modeling chocolate, if that’s your preferred cupcake topper. Whatever works, right?!

What You Need to Make these Dog Cupcakes

But let’s get back to these easy doggy cupcakes and what you need to make them. This is such a simple cupcake, but it’s totally no-fail. And you don’t even need eggs.

• 2 1/2 cup flour
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tspn baking soda
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 2 tspn vanilla
• 1/3 cup butter (melted)
• 1 cup water
• 1 can of your favorite vanilla frosting
• 2 cups marshmallow fondant or white modeling chocolate
• 24 small candy eyeballs
• 5-10 drops dark blue food coloring
• 10-12 drops dark brown food coloring
• Black Gel Writing Icing
• Blue sanding sugar

How to Make these Puppy Cupcakes 

Step 1

To make the cupcakes, preheat oven to 350-degrees and combine dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl.

Step 2

Combine wet ingredients (including butter) in a second medium sized bowl.

Step 3

Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in ⅓ increments, mixing thoroughly between each increment then spoon into lined cupcake pan.

Step 4

Bake for 30-minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool cupcakes completely before decorating.

Step 5

With your largest decorating tip, press into the top of the cupcake off-center, creating a well. Save hole tops.

Step 6

Place 1 tablespoon of blue sanding sugar sprinkles inside the well in the cupcake. Replace hole top on each cupcake.

Step 7

Mix blue food coloring into your vanilla frosting, stirring until the color is consistent.

Step 8

Place large hole tip in piping bag and fill with frosting. Frost each cupcake in a single layer swirl, turning the piping bag as you pipe.

Step 9

Break off one quarter of the marshmallow fondant. Set aside.

With 10-15 drops of brown GEL food coloring, work that into the larger portion of marshmallow fondant. This needs to be brown, so if you need more food coloring, add more. If the fondant feels too wet, put it in the freezer for 10 minutes.

Step 10

Roll out brown fondant on parchment paper to about 1/8-1/4 inch thick and, with round cookie cutter cut out 12 circles. Place one circle of brown fondant on top of each cupcake.

Step 11

With extra brown fondant, make two ears for each cupcake. I did 1/2 long ears and 1/2 short spiked ears. Place those ears on each brown fondant circle.

Step 12

With white fondant, make an oblong patch and place it over 1/2 of each circle.

Step 13

Add two candy eyeballs on top of each fondant circle, one on top of a patch.

Step 14

Add a little tiny thin cylinder above each eyeball as an eyelid.

Step 15

With the black gel writing icing, draw a nose and mouth on each cupcake.

Step 16

Enjoy!

Other Great Cupcake Recipes

• Butter Pecan Sundae Cupcakes
• Sleeping Beauty Cupcakes
• Boozy Strawberry Cupcakes

If you love this easy cupcake decorating idea, but you’re not quite ready to break out the food coloring, just pin this to your favorite cupcake decorating ideas board on Pinterest so you can find it quick later!