Brain Cakes
Making cupcakes that look like brains is fun for Halloween parties for your spooky guests.
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Ingredients
Cupcakes
125 g soft margerine
125 g caster sugar
2 large eggs
125 g self-raising flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
125 g caster sugar
2 large eggs
125 g self-raising flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
Frosting
1 tub creamy vanilla frosting (available in large supermarkets)
green, red & black food colourings
green, red & black food colourings
Method
To make the Cupcakes:
- Cream the margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy, then beat in the eggs one at time together with a tablespoon of flour.
- Add the vanilla essence and fold in the remaining flour.
- Line a bun tin with paper cases and half fill each case with the mixture.
- Bake in an oven preheated to 180C/350F for 12 minutes.
- You can tell they are done when they have risen up, are golden in colour and spring back into shape when pressed with your finger. Remove and cool on a wire rack
To make the Frosting
- Add a little red and black food colouring to the vanilla frosting to make the brain pinkish grey.
- Pipe the frosting on top of the cupcakes and using red food colouring and a toothpick, draw red veins on the icing.
