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Annabel Karmel's Halloween brain cupcakes

Annabel Karmel's Halloween brain cupcakes

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Your kids are going to love these brainy cupcakes from kids' food expert, Annabel Karmel. They're spot on for a scary Halloween party or for little boys who love everything grim and gory

Makes: 18
Prep time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Skill level: Easy peasy
Costs: Cheap as chips

Child friendly
Make in advance

Ingredients

For the cupcakes:

125g/4½oz soft margarine
125g/4½oz caster sugar
2 large eggs
125g/4½oz self raising flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tub creamy vanilla icing (available in large supermarkets)

For the decoration:

1 tub vanilla frosting
Icing sugar
Red and black food colouring

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Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas mark 4. Cream the margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy, then beat in the eggs one at time, together with a tablespoon of flour. Add the vanilla essence and fold in the remaining flour.
2. Line a bun tin with paper cases and half fill each case with the mixture. Bake in the oven for 20 mins. You can tell they are done when they have risen, are golden in colour and spring back into shape when pressed with your finger. Remove and cool on a wire rack.
3. Add the icing sugar to a tub of ready-made vanilla frosting to make it stiff enough to pipe. Add a little red and black food colouring to make the brain pinkish grey. Pipe the frosting on top of the cupcakes and, using red food colouring and a cocktail stick, draw red veins on the icing.

Annabel Karmel's Winter and Christmas Family Cookbook is available from Tesco, Sainsbury, Boots, Asda, WH Smith, Borders and Eason, as well as online at amazon.co.uk, magbooks.com and annabelkarmel.com for only £5.99

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