Recipe | Halloween Brain Cupcakes

Happy Halloween!

Here is the recipe for some Brain Cupcakes I whipped up at the weekend to share with some family friends who came to visit.

Serving: Makes 9 cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 1 hour

For the cupcakes you will need

• 100 grams self raising flour
• 100 grams caster sugar
• 100 grams butter (at room temperature)
• 2 free range eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

For the Buttercream you will need

• 200 grams icing sugar
• 100 grams butter
• Dr Oetker red food gel – a couple drops until buttercream is tinted a flesh colour.

Method

1. Cream together the butter and sugar until light a fluffy

2.Beat in the eggs until all combined

3. Sift in the flour until all is mixed together

4. Divide into 9 cupcake cases and bake for 12-15 minutes – or until golden brown and bouncy to touch

5. While the cupcakes are baking make the buttercream by mixing the butter and icing sugar together

6. Then add a few drops of red food gel until the desired colour is produced.

7. Leave the buttercream to chill in the fridge until the cupcakes are cool enough to ice.

To make the brain pattern you will need to make a long line down the centre of the cupcake and then create a squiggly line down the two sides – you may need to practise this on baking parchment to achieve the right shape

To finish I watered down some of the red food gel and flicked it onto the cakes to look like blood.

Hope you all had a lovely day!

Annie xx