Brain Cupcakes

Name: Brain Cupcakes
Ingredients: Pink or white paper cupcake liners; 1 recipe batter for Red Velvet Cupcakes; 1 recipe Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting; Red and black food coloring; Pastry bag and large round tip

5 ingredients

8 steps

Ingredients

Pink or white paper cupcake liners
1 recipe batter for Red Velvet Cupcakes
1 recipe Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting
Red and black food coloring
Pastry bag and large round tip

Directions

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Line cupcake tins with the liners.
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Fill the cupcake liners two-thirds full with the batter and bake the cupcakes as directed in the recipe .
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Mix a drop of red and black food coloring into the frosting to make it a pinkish gray brain color.
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Using the pastry bag, pipe the frosting in a squiggly pile on half of each cupcake top (brains have two hemispheres, you know).
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Now pipe the frosting in a squiggly pile on the other half of the cupcake top.