This Halloween I wanted to make something festive yet delicious. Is it possible to make a cupcake scary? Well I don’t know about that, but its definitely gory and gross (in a festive way). I thought the color of the raspberry puree would work well as fake blood, and would perfectly color and flavor the frosting. And nothing goes better with raspberry than chocolate. So naturally, the cupcake base is chocolate cupcakes.
For the Brain design I used a small round tip to make the brain squiggles. And made a larger line down the center to distinguish the left and right hemisphere. I topped it off with some Raspberry puree (hold the seeds) to look like fake blood and really bring the brain to life. This is the perfect treat for a festive, semi scary, Halloween Party!
Brain Cupcakes (Chocolate Raspberry)
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 egg
- ½ cup buttermilk
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup hot water
- ½ tsp vanilla
Frosting
- ½ cup Butter
- ½ cut shortening
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 5 TBSP raspberry puree no seeds
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 300. Place cupcake liners in muffin tin.
- Boil water on the stove.
- Meanwhile, Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl, removing lumps, set aside
- Mix egg, oil, and buttermilk in a mixer until combined.
- Slowly add in dry mixture.
- Add in boiling water and vanilla. Mix until fully incorporated.
- Spoon mixture into cupcakes liners until half way full.
- Put in the oven and bake for about 20 min or until you can pull a toothpick out and for it to be clean.
Frosting
- Mix together Butter and Shortening
- Gradually add in powdered sugar
- Add in Raspberry puree
- (add more powdered sugar if it is not thick enough, add milk if too thick)
- Pipe Frosting on with Wilton #6 Tip
- Top with Raspberry puree for "blood"
