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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
Published October 4, 2025
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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.

    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.

    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.

    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

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