Brain Cupcakes
Creepy and creative cupcakes decorated to look like brains using red velvet cake and tinted vanilla buttercream frosting. Perfect for Halloween parties or zombie-themed events.
12 servings
45 min
Ingredients
- •12 pieces Pink or white paper cupcake liners
- •1 recipe recipe batter for Red Velvet Cupcakes
- •1 recipe recipe Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting
- •1 set Red and black food coloring
- •1 set Pastry bag and large round tip
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
1. Line cupcake tins with the liners. Fill the cupcake liners two-thirds full with the batter and bake the cupcakes as directed in the recipe .
25 min
- 2.
2. Mix a drop of red and black food coloring into the frosting to make it a pinkish gray brain color.
5 min
- 3.
3. Using the pastry bag, pipe the frosting in a squiggly pile on half of each cupcake top (brains have two hemispheres, you know). Now pipe the frosting in a squiggly pile on the other half of the cupcake top.
15 min
