Bloody Brains Cupcakes

Bloody Brains Cupcakes

What do you love best about Halloween as an adult? For me, it still seems like a mystical time of the year. In England, the end of October is normally cold. If it’s not raining, there’s normally a frost in the air and you can always see your breath in the air as a little cloud that shines in the street lights. Obviously, it’s so much better if there’s an awesome full moon with creepy cloud cover too. I love that I can get warm and cosy on the sofa with a giant cup of hot chocolate and a huge warm jumper with the fire on.

As a child, there was a children’s park on a pitch of land after our back garden. There were a lot of trees bordering the park. At night, when I looked out onto the back garden it was creepy. The owls and crow sounds added to it. It was so much creepier with a full moon as the tree branches used to sway in front of the moon creating the perfect halloween scenes you see in pictures and films. I remember going trick or treating too but as I got to my teens I wised up and got cheeky. I used to go trick or treating 2 days before Halloween. That way people weren’t prepared for trick or treaters so instead of sweets and chocolate, they gave money. I used to be out for hours, when I finally arrived home would tot it up to around £10 ($8) or a little more or less depending on areas, etc. Haha, like I said, cheeky! *blush*

Another thing I loved back then and now is the halloween movies come out of the wood work. Whether they were scary ones, or animated aimed at children, I loved them. I’d be scared witless but I still loved them, they are traditional for me. I love gory movies. The movies with zombies in where they were full of gore, like a zombie grabbing a human and literally biting into the brain with blood spraying everywhere. That’s where these bloody brains cupcakes come in.

They’re light and fluffy vanilla cupcakes with a raspberry jam (blood) core, with yummy buttercream frosting brains. The blood and bloody chunks are made by using a pastry brush and wet dabbing liquid red food colouring onto the buttercream frosting. You can optionally add bloody brain matter chunks too by soaking some white sanding sugar in the red food colouring and adding to the cupcakes, gives that extra core factor!! 😉

I vant to eat your brains. Your sweet, juicy brainnnsss.

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