Ingredients

• Pink or white paper cupcake liners
• 1 recipe batter for Red Velvet Cupcakes
• 1 recipe Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting
• Red and black food coloring
• Pastry bag and large round tip

Instructions

1. 1. Line cupcake tins with the liners. Fill the cupcake liners two-thirds full with the batter and bake the cupcakes as directed in the recipe .
2. 2. Mix a drop of red and black food coloring into the frosting to make it a pinkish gray brain color.
3. 3. Using the pastry bag, pipe the frosting in a squiggly pile on half of each cupcake top (brains have two hemispheres, you know). Now pipe the frosting in a squiggly pile on the other half of the cupcake top.