Farm Birthday: Tractor Cake & Animal Cupcakes

The Cake:
1 cake mix, prepared and baked as directed-I baked it in a cookie sheet that had deep sides so that I only needed 1 cake mix for the tractor and trailer
Frosting-chocolate, green, yellow, black, white
When frosting cakes I always freeze them first, it makes it a lot easier and the cake doesn't crumble so much with the frosting.
I drew the outline I wanted for the tractor on a pice of paper, then laid it over the cake and cut it out with a knife, then transfered it to the foil-covered cake board.
Toasted coconut for hay bales


The Cupcakes:
Cow:
Frost cupcake white
Add brown spots with chocolate frosting
Black frosting for mouth, eyes, and nostrils
Pink frosting for nose
2 long black sprinkles for horns
Cut a mini-marshmallow in half diagonally, dip cut sides in pink sprinkles for ears

Sheep:
Frost cupcake white
Add a 'Whopper' candy for nose
Black frosting for eyes
Add mini-marshmallows for wool (can cut these in half to make less bulk)

Pig:
Frost cupcake dark pink
Light pink frosting for nose
Black frosting for eyes, mouth, and nostrils
Cut a pink mini-marshmallow in half diagonally and dip cut sides into pink sprinkles (I found the pink mini-marshmallows in the bag of fruit flavored marshmallows) for ears

Chick:
Frost cupcake yellow
Red frosting for whatever that thing is on top of its head (I think this is actually supposed to go under his beak?)
Yellow sprinkles for feathers/wings
Black frosting for eyes
I used and orange sprinkle-covered candy that I cut into a triangle for his beak but you can also use orange frosting