Ahh, we come to part two of Halloween party cupcakes. Yesterday it was Kodos and Kang. Today it's vampires! I'd like to start off this post with a disclaimer. These cupcakes have nothing to do with Twilight. Nothing. At all. And it can be verified. How? Because if they did, they'd look like this. But instead they look like this:
As you can see they are cool and not lame and sparkly and sexless. And what's even cooler about them is that they not only looked like they've been bitten into by a vampire, but they bleed when you bite into 'em. Thus, they are cool, not twilighty and totally worth making. So, how does one go about making these ultra cool vamp cakes? Like this.
First gather up: ingredients for your favourite cake; 1 can of vanilla, white chocolate or cream cheese frosting; 1 can of cherry pie filling; a small spoon and; a skewer.
Now prepare your favourite cake, in cupcake form, according to it's recipe / mix. Let cupcakes cool, unless you wanna burn your hands, and then by all means, trudge forward as soon as you pull those suckers out tha oven. Take your little spoon and hollow out a cavern in the cupcake.
Spoon in a nice dollop of the pie filling. If you want your cupcakes to really look like they are bleeding puree the pie filling first. But if you're like me and prefer to bite into a scrumptious cherry more than you prefer the visual effect of a bleeding cupcake, then don't bother with pureeing it.
Repeat this process with all your cupcakes. Once you have them all filled, freeze them. Yep, that's right, freeze 'em.
Why? Because if you don't then the pie filling is going to mix in with the frosting and you're just going to end up with a pink frosted cupcake. If you're going for a Twilight theme, you may want this. Otherwise, make sure you freeze them so the pie filling is a hard frozen clump that can't mix in with your frosting.
After your cupcakes are sufficiently frozen (I let mine go overnight, but I'm sure leaving them in the freezer that long isn't necessary) frost them. Nothing special here, just smear white frosting all over the top.
When you've got them frosted get a skewer and your pie filling. Dip the skewer in the pie filling then stab a hole in your cupcake.
Make sure you leave the hole visible. This makes it look more like a fang bite rather than just a red blob. Repeat this process for the 2nd fang mark. Now, redip your skewer in the pie filling. Streak a little extra filling down from the bite holes to make it look like the cake bled.
This should leave you with a final product that looks like this:
Sweet! Now you're ready to devour them like you're Louis and they're rats! Nomnomnom.
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