Brain Frosting

Name: Brain Frosting
Ingredients: 1 stick softened butter; 4 oz cream cheese; 2 T Crisco; 2 pinches salt; 1 t vanilla; 8 cups powdered sugar; milk or cream as needed to get right consistency; dried strawberry (or berry), cut into bits; 1/4 cup cocoa powder to taste/color; pink gel food color

10 ingredients

4 steps

Ingredients

1 stick softened butter
4 oz cream cheese
2 T Crisco
2 pinches salt
1 t vanilla
8 cups powdered sugar
milk or cream as needed to get right consistency
dried strawberry (or berry), cut into bits
1/4 cup cocoa powder to taste/color
pink gel food color

Directions

1

Beat butter, cream cheese, & Crisco until well-blended. Add pinch of salt. Sift 1 cup of sugar with cocoa, add to butter mixture. Then add rest of sugar, 1 cup at a time. Add berry & cocoa & pink food coloring and adjust as needed to look pinky-brown.
2

Add milk or cream to get consistency to allow piping into brain lobes.
3

Refrigerate cupcakes. Apply thin coat to cover top of cupcake.
4

Pipe into 2 brain lobes. Refrigerate to hold shape.