Description
Create creepy and delicious Intestine & Brain Cupcakes perfect for Halloween or themed parties. These spooky cupcakes feature intricately piped brain shapes and squiggly intestines using tinted icing and gel colors, adding a fun and eerie touch to your dessert table.
Ingredients
Scale
Cupcakes
- Favorite cupcake recipe or box mix (enough for 2 batches / 24 cupcakes)
For Frosting and Decoration
- Creamy White Decorator Icing, 4 lb. Tub
- Rose Icing Color Pink Food Coloring, 1 oz.
- Rose Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz.
- Red-Red Icing Color, 1 oz.
- Red-Red Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz.
- Brown Food Coloring Icing Color, 1 oz.
- Brown Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz.
- Creamy Peach Icing Color, 1 oz.
- Creamy Peach Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz.
- 1/2 cup Piping Gel
Instructions
- Bake Cupcakes: Prepare the cupcakes according to your favorite cake recipe or box mix instructions. Line a muffin pan with black baking liners, fill each with batter, then bake as directed. Once baked, cool the cupcakes completely to room temperature before decorating.
- Prepare Tinted Frosting: Tint 1 cup of white icing by combining creamy peach icing color and brown food coloring to create the peach color used for the brains. Tint another 1 cup of white icing mixing red-red, rose, and brown food colors to achieve a dark red color for the intestines.
- Set Up Decorating Bags: Prepare three piping bags: one with tip 4 filled with peach brain color icing, one with tip 1A also with peach brain color icing, and one with tip 8 filled with the dark red intestine color icing.
- Ice Cupcakes Base: Using a tapered spatula and the creamy white icing, spread a smooth, even layer of icing over each cupcake as the base coat.
- Pipe Brains: On half of the cupcakes, use the tip 1A and peach icing to pipe a 1 1/4-inch oval-shaped rounded mound in the center to form the brain shape. Outline each half of the brain with tip 4 and peach icing, then fill the surface with zigzag piping strokes to simulate brain folds.
- Pipe Intestines: On the remaining cupcakes, use tip 8 and the dark red intestine icing to pipe continuous elongated beads forming overlapping loops that resemble slightly squiggly intestinal lines.
- Chill Cupcakes: Refrigerate the cupcakes to allow the icing to firm up before applying the decorative gel.
- Prepare Blood Gel: Mix 1/2 cup of piping gel with red-red and a touch of brown icing colors to create a dark, blood-red gel.
- Apply Blood Gel: Use a small brush to carefully paint the blood-red gel over the piped intestines, adding a glossy, gory finish to the cupcakes.
Notes
- Use black baking liners to enhance the spooky look of the cupcakes.
- Allow cupcakes to cool completely before icing to prevent melting.
- Different piping tips create the distinct textures for brains and intestines; ensure you have tips 1A, 4, and 8 ready.
- Chill cupcakes before applying piping gel to avoid smearing the colors.
- For best results, use gel food coloring for more vibrant colors that won’t thin the icing.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 28g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 7g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 42g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 40mg