• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
    • Copyright
    • Disclosure
    • Privacy Policy
    • Contact / PRs / Review Policy / Link Policy
  • Recipe Index
  • Ingredients
  • As Seen
  • Credit Crunch Munch
  • Extra Veg
  • Work With Me
Fuss Free Flavours

Fuss Free Flavours

Easy recipes you will make again | Travel | Reviews

  • Home
  • All Recipes
    • Quick & Easy
    • Recipes by Course
      • Breakfast & Brunch Recipes
      • Main Meal
      • Side Dishes
      • Drinks
      • Starters & Light Bites
      • Desserts & Puddings
      • Baking
        • Biscuits and cookies
        • Bread Recipes
        • Cake
        • Cupcakes
        • Muffins
        • Pie
      • Soup
      • Salad
      • Dips, Dressings, & Sauces
      • Easy Jam, Jelly & Preserve Recipes
    • Recipes by Cuisine
      • American
      • Chinese
      • French
      • Italian
      • Other Cuisines
      • Vegetarian Recipes
      • Vegan Recipes
  • Recipes by Main Ingredient
    • Beef
    • Poultry
    • Pork
    • Lamb
    • Game
    • Fish & Seafood
    • Beans & Lentils
    • Pasta
    • Grains & Rice
    • Fruit
    • Vegetables
    • Dairy
    • Booze
  • Travel
    • Rest of Europe
    • French
    • Rest of the world
    • Food Origins and Stories
You are here: Home / Recipes / Baking / Cupcakes / Recipe: Wolf Cupcakes

Recipe: Wolf Cupcakes

Published on December 5, 2011 by Helen 10 Comments
Last Updated on July 3, 2018

Wolf cupcake

It has to be said that few people know their own mind as well as a small child, and one particular small child was insistent that he wanted a wolf cake for his birthday party.

6 year old F, who is Ed’s nephew, had already had a bat cake on his actual birthday and the wolf cakes were for his party.   We tried to persuade him to have bat cupcakes, I showed him Sarah’s here, but to no avail.   “But bats are not orange Helly, I want a wolf cake”.  His older sister H, was holding out for the remains of the chocolate orange, but F was not to be persuaded.

“I want a grey wolf cake, but I could also have a yellow or red Ethiopian wolf or a snowy white wolf”.   And apparently Ethiopian wolves do not go grey with age, they stay either yellow or red.

Wolf cakes it was. In a previous year F was equally insistent that he had to have an Easy-jet cake, not BA or any other airline, which required a vat of orange food colouring.

I set to work humming A-Ha to myself.

Grey Wolf Cupcakes

Given a lack of time I was rather pleased with these, simply pipe a swirl of grey buttercream, then add ears and a nose.   Fangs were cut up mini marshmallows and the eyes gold soft balls from Dr Oetker and the responsibility of my able assistant H.    If I were making these again I would make more prominent eyes using a polka dot with a drop of black food colouring on it.

Both children had a great time practising piping onto a chopping board, we scraped the board clean and refilled the piping bag a good few times.

I have a feeling that with the addition of whiskers these could also work as cat cupcakes?

I have just realised that I do not have a basic cupcake recipe on the site!  Time to write one!

Related Posts

  • Pink Valentine's Cupcake
    Recipe: Blackcurrant Valentine's Cupcakes Recipe
  • Jelly Belly Eton Mess Valentines Day Cupcakes
    Recipe: Pretty Pink Eton Mess Valentine's Cupcakes
  • Recipe: Bonfire "Perfect Storm" Cupcakes
  • Dark & Stormy Cocktail cakes made with ginger cakes filled with a rum cream
    Recipe: Dark & Stormy Cocktail Cupcakes

Filed Under: Baking, Cupcakes, Recipes, £

Previous Post: « Recipe: Panettone – Fresh From the Oven & an Introduction
Next Post: Nordic Bakery Festive Recipes: Frozen Lingonberry & Ginger Biscuit Cream with Balsamic Vinegar Sauce »

Reader Interactions

Comments

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    Recipe Rating




  1. Miss Whiplash

    BEAUTIFUL wolfcakes :-) I love them!

    Reply
    • Helen

      Thank you! Howl!

      Reply
  2. The Mad House

    These would go down a storm in my house. They are fab

    Reply
  3. Tracey

    I want these for my birthday :)

    Reply
  4. Sarah, Maison Cupcake

    Oh cute! I think you’ll find Jeanne Cooksister and Meeta What’s for Lunch Honey are the biggest A-ha fans!

    Reply
  5. Jeanne @ CokSister!

    Hahahaha! Cry Wooooolf, ooooh, time to worry now! Love it :)) Adorable cupcakes too – my nephews would LOVE them!

    Reply
    • Helen

      I was humming the song whilst piping.

      Reply
  6. bakingaddict

    Awesome cupcakes! A small child definitely knows his/her mind :)

    Reply
  7. Michelle

    I know the feeling when the kids decide what they want. Wolf cake, plane cake, pizza with none of that tomato sauce stuff hiding underneath the cheese (Me – Erm, that’ll be cheese on toast then? She – No, PIZZA!!! But no yukky tomato sauce. Me – Sigh) I’ve now been instructed to craft angels for my youngest’s birthday cake which I need to perfect by January. (Thanks for the book, Helen!) Think they’ll probably be wolf angels. Kinda like these wolves but with a marshmallow halo or something… Gosh. Never would have guessed cakes could be so stressful?! :)

    Reply
    • Helen

      I quite agree Michelle. And what I find astonishing is just how much small children know about specific subjects.

      Good luck with the cake!

      Reply

Primary Sidebar

About Me

Headshot of Helen Best-Shaw, Food Blogger at Fuss Free Flavours I'm Helen, full time freelance food writer, photographer and blogger. On this site you will find my fuss-free recipes, travel and reviews. Learn more here
Email Button, a white envelopw with orange box coming out of it Twitter Logo, bluw circle with a white bird Facebook logo, blue square with a white F inside You Tube Logo, a red box with the words You Tube on the inside Pinterest Logo, a red circle with white P on the inside Instagram Logo, a rainbow box with a square and circle inside of it Flipboard Logo - Red square with a white F on the inside

Press/As Seen On

Image-1

Subscribe

Footer

Latest Posts

Pizza Fries Recipe

Pizza Fries Recipe

Easy Melba Toast

Easy Melba Toast

Easy Braised Celery Recipe

Easy Braised Celery Recipe

Leftover Chicken Tagine

Leftover Chicken Tagine

Easy Blueberry Jam (Three Ingredients, No Pectin)

Easy Blueberry Jam (Three Ingredients, No Pectin)

Easy Roasted Baby Potatoes

Easy Roasted Baby Potatoes

Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2021 Helen Best-Shaw / Fuss Free Flavours - Easy Recipes You Will Make Again

  • 6