Recipes
Bloody brains
Tuck into deliciously gruesome cupcakes with butter icing, or make 18 smaller ones with fairy cake cases instead. Great for a Halloween party.
Tuck into deliciously gruesome cupcakes with butter icing, or make 18 smaller ones with fairy cake cases instead. Great for a Halloween party.
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Cook: 1 Hour 30 Mins
Serves: 12
Price: 29p per serving
Nutritional Information
Each 83g serving contains
Energy
1403kj
335kcal
1403kj
335kcal
17%
Fat
16.9g
16.9g
Med
24%
24%
Saturates
10.2g
10.2g
Med
51%
51%
Sugars
34.8g
34.8g
High
39%
39%
Salt
0.6g
0.6g
Med
9%
9%
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
1690kj/404kcal
Typical energy values per 100g:
1690kj/404kcal
Ingredients
12 pink Asda paper cupcake cases
125g butter, softened, plus 100g for the icing
125g self-raising flour
1 level tsp baking powder
125g caster sugar
2 large free-range eggs
Home 2 Bake Colouring Gels, in red and black
100g glacé cherries, quartered
200g icing sugar
1-2 tbsp milk
¼ tsp vanilla extract
3 tbsp Asda Seedless Raspberry Jam
Method
1
Pre-heat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Line a 12-hole muffin tray with the cupcake cases. Beat 125g of the butter in a large bowl until creamy. Sift in the flour and baking powder, then add the caster sugar and eggs. Beat until evenly mixed.
2
Add enough red colouring to make the mixture very pale pink, like a brain. Stir in the cherries (to look like specks of blood). Divide the mixture between the cake cases and bake for 20 minutes or until the tops spring back when lightly pressed. Cool on a wire rack.
3
Beat the rest of the butter until creamy and gradually beat in the icing sugar. Add the milk and vanilla extract. Colour the mixture a very pale greyish-pink with red and black colouring.
4
Put the butter icing in an Asda Piping Bag and snip off the end (or use a small freezer bag and snip off a corner). Pipe onto each cake in a wavy, s-shape pattern in two halves to make a brain.
5
Put the jam in another piping bag or freezer bag and pipe into the gaps.