Brain Cupcakes

By Annabel Karmel

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For Halloween, your kitchen will be transformed into a gory laboratory when you make these brain cupcakes. Brains have never been so tasty -- and cupcakes have never been so clever!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup self-rising flour
  • 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup superfine sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

For decoration:

  • One 16-ounce tub vanilla frosting
  • Red and black food coloring
  • Toothpick

 

Cooking Instructions

  1. Prehead the oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Put all the cupcake ingredients in a bowl and beat them together until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
  3. Line a muffin pan with paper liners and fill each halfway with the mixture.
  4. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes until the muffins have risen, are golden in color, and spring back into shape when pressed with your finger. Remove and cool on a wire rack.
  5. Add enough confectioners' sugar to the creamy vanilla frosting to make it stiff enough to pipe. To the frosting, add a light red and a black food coloring to create a pinkish-gray frosting for the "brain."
  6. Pipe the frosting on top of the cupcakes, and usinng a red food coloring and a toothpick, draw red veins on the icing.

 

Servings:

18


Baking Time: 20 minutes

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This content originally appeared in the Complete Party Planner: Over 120 Delicious Recipes and Party Ideas for Every Occasion by Annabel Karmel (Atria Books, 2006) and the Annabel Karmel Family Cookbook (Dennis Publishing, Winter & Christmas 2008 edition).

To learn more about bestselling cookbook author Annabel Karmel, click here.

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