These Brain Cupcakes will blow kids and adults way! And they are not difficult to make! I'm sure they will be a hit on your next Halloween party!

Here at home we are not very talented when it comes to decorating, for that reason you can imagine how happy we were when we pulled this off 🙂 So you really don't need decorating talent to make these beautiful (or should I say gross?) Brain Cupcakes!

Ingredients you need to make these Brain Cupcakes

cakes: butter, sugar, egg, all-purpose flour (or cake flour), baking powder, salt and milk
frosting: butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla extract
assembling: strawberry jam and some water + small serynges

How to make

cakes: preheat oven and line standard muffin tins with paper liners. With a mixer (or stand mixer) beat butter and sugar, add egg and keep beating. In another bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt. Incorporate the flour mixture with the butter mixture. Pour the milk and beat until batter is smooth. Pour batter in lined cups and bake until a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
frosting: place butter and cream cheese into a bowl and whisk on high speed until it reaches a whipped cream texture, add sugar and vanilla and whisk on high speed for about 30 seconds.
assembling: place frosting in a pipping bag. Using a small tip make a layer of frosting in circular movements (picture bellow). Then, on top of this, shape the frosting like it's a brain (picture bellow). First one half, then the other half. Now take the strawberry jam. Add some water to make it less thick. Pour some jam on top of the "brain" and fill the serynges with jam. Stick one serynge in each cupcake. Before eating, "inject" the jam from the serynge in the cupcake.

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Brain Cupcakes for Halloween

Delicious and spooky cupcakes to make for Halloween

Course cake, Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword cupcake, Halloween

Prep Time 1

Cook Time 20

Servings

Calories 299kcal

Equipment

small seringes

Ingredients

For cakes:

2 tbsp butter softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tbsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2/3 cup milk

For frosting:

1/2 cup butter
6 oz cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

For assembling:

1/2 cup Strawberry jam and some water

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Instructions

Cakes:

Preheat oven to 350F (180C). Line standard muffin tins with paper liners.
With a mixer (or stand mixer) beat butter and sugar. Add egg and keep beating.
In another bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt.
Incorporate the flour mixture with the butter mixture. Pour the milk and beat until batter is smooth.
Pour batter in lined cups. Bake until a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean, about 20 minutes.

Frosting

Place butter and cream cheese into a bowl and whisk on high speed until it reaches a whipped cream texture. Add sugar and vanilla and whisk on high speed for about 30 seconds.

Assembling

Place frosting in a pipping bag. Using a small tip make a layer of frosting in circular movements (picture above). Then, on top of this, shape the frosting like it's a brain (picture above). First one half, then the other half.
Now take the strawberry jam. Add some water to make it less thick. Pour some jam on top of the "brain" and fill the serynges with jam. Stick one serynge in each cupcake.
Before eating, "inject" the jam from the serynge in the cupcake.

Nutrition

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