Look away if you’re squeamish and if you’re not, peer into my dark mind. As you may know, Halloween is my kind of holiday. Sure, I live in the wrong country for this as we don’t really celebrate it but give me Friday the 13th as an interim measure between the long year that stretches between Halloweens. I love anything dark and ghoulish so I was excited to be able to have a little bit of Halloween in February. Nothing bad has ever happened to me on Friday the 13th (that is one date where I truly do notice if bad things happen).
The brain decoration idea came from the very copied and popular cupcakes book Hey There Cupcake! by Claire Crespo. I thought that I’d make it a touch more grotesque with a blood clot hidden inside the cupcake. I needed a fairly stiff batter, one that would hold a clot so to speak so I turned to the Jam Donut cupcakes I made a while back. The cake itself is quite dense and whilst 4 cups of icing sugar sounds like a freakish amount… ok yes it is and there’s no other way to pitch it.
As with all things Halloween related, I took out my box of tricks and decided to ghoulify an already ghoulish cupcake idea. I would have loved to have some surgeon’s implements for the task but unfortunately my doctor friend Soph lives in another state and I’m sure the local hospital wouldn’t understand my need to borrow brain surgery tools overnight. Of course I could have paid them in one of these cupcakes. I hope that my broken mirror and bloodied knife suffices.
An original recipe by Not Quite Nigella adapted from an idea by Claire Crespo
Makes 8
spright
Alyssa :)
Sara P.
Sybaritic
Amy A.
Stormy
Zoe S.
Yuki E.
Emily 
NeonPaste...
Deswyn
Ezme 
Bridgette W.
Arty KitKat
Nicky Love
Jean
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spright
25 Oct 21:32
Awesome, awesome, awesome!
DarkAshHurts
26 Oct 01:48
haha i love it.
It looks disgustingly delicious. :)
Yuki E.
26 Oct 11:28
are the measurements of the ingredients in cups/tbsp? or are they in grams? :)
SweetHoneyTurtle
26 Oct 13:52
I love the idea! But the word clot makes me kinda...not so hungry LOL. Would be wonderful for a party or something though!
♫ BecSTAR ♫
27 Oct 21:11
How friggin AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
Arty KitKat
27 Oct 23:42
These are amazing :)
Kim T.
29 Oct 17:10
What a great Halloween party treat! I think I might try the same idea but with red velvet cupcakes instead.
Tanja S.
30 Oct 17:38
I have the same question as Yuki... cups/tbsp?
I go for cups, but I am not sure! and I really want to try it! They are "shocking" awesome! :-)
Basketbchic
02 Nov 04:18
Tried to make this and miserably failed with piping on the frosting. Still tasted good though!
Sarah M.
05 Nov 15:03
Same here!
Basketbchic
02 Nov 04:18
Tried to make this and miserably failed with piping on the frosting. Still tasted good though!
Sarah M.
05 Nov 15:03
Same here!
Basketbchic
02 Nov 04:18
Tried to make this and miserably failed with piping on the frosting. Still tasted good though!