Halloween Bloody Brain Cupcakes
October 31, 2016 | By Jeremy Scheck | Leave a Comment
This is a really fun way to decorate your cupcakes for halloween.
Halloween Bloody Brain Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Perfect Vanilla Cupcakes
- 1 recipe American Buttercream
- Red food coloring to taste
- Black food coloring to taste
- 1 cup seedless raspberry jelly
- Medium-small round piping tip
- Medium-large piping tip
- Small round piping tip
- Disposable piping bags
Instructions
- Use the back of a clean piping tip to core the center of the top of each cupcake, leaving a small indent for the jam. Reserve the cake taken off the top.
- In a small saucepan or in the microwave, briefly melt the jam and mix in a teaspoon or so of water to thin it out.
- Pipe or spoon about a tsp of jam per cupcake into the indents of the cupcakes and cover the jam with the reserved cake pieces.
- Color your buttercream with black and red to reach a gross, brainy, off-white color.
- On top of the covered jam, pipe a small mound of buttercream in the center of each cupcake. Use your medium large tip for this.
- To make the brain design, use your medium-small tip. Pipe a D shape starting with a vertical line down just right of the middle (going over the mound you piped in step five.) Holding your tip slightly higher than normal helps. Turn the cake 180° and repeat with the vertical line of the second D splitting the center with that of the first. Fill in the hole created by each D with squiggles of icing.
- Using a small round tip, pipe on remaining jelly to resemble blood to taste.
Jeremy Scheck spent high school perfecting his signature cupcakes, making quiches and coffee cake by the dozen at a local bakery, and teaching cooking demonstrations at Williams-Sonoma. As a 10th grader in 2016, he began documenting his favorite recipes on a blog called The After School Bakery. In college, Jeremy learned to make 50 gallons of ice cream in the food science lab, how to prune grape vines in the teaching vineyard, the best way to milk a cow in Northern Italy, and why film photography is an art worth saving. As a sophomore in 2020, he traded blog photos for video and became a TikTok culinary sensation. Jeremy has been featured on the Today show, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, BBC Radio, People, and Access Hollywood, among others. Jeremy is a graduate of Cornell University with a double major in Spanish and Italian, and significant coursework in food science. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. Learn more about Jeremy.