Zombie Cupcake Recipe

Zombie cupcakes - The tasty delights of a cutesy cupcake combined with the brain-munching awesomeness of the walking dead. What better way to celebrate a gruesome birthday, creepsome anniversary or spooksome Halloween?

Zombie Cupcake - "He's coming to get you Barbara."

Zombie cupcakes are a delightful way to enjoy a delicious snack and a wonderful way to share your passion for zombies and horror with friends and loved ones (without subjecting them to a 10 hour marathon of cult cinema classics), it's a fun activities for kids of all ages too.

Wash your hands and roll up your sleeves! "Spooooonnnnges!!!"

Zombie Cupcake - "Braiiins!!"

Zombie Cupcake Ingredients (makes 12)

100g (4oz)         Butter or margarine

100g (4oz)         Caster sugar

100g (4oz)         Self-raising flour (sifted)

2                         Eggs

1/2 tsp                Baking powder

1/2 tsp                Vanilla essence.

Zombie Cupcakes Method

Preheat the oven to 180/gas mark 4

Place 12 paper cases into a cupcake/muffin tin

Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy

Beat in eggs one at a time

Add vanilla essence

Fold in flour and baking powder

Bake in the oven for 10 - 12 minutes until slightly browned

Cool on a wire rack.

Decorating Zombie Cupcakes

Fondant icing – for modelling shapes (follow instructions on packet)

Glace icing (follow instructions on packet)

Food colouring – Red, green, black & blue, but go wild

3 x Oreo Cookies – crushed

Toothpicks, for modelling

Small, clean brush – one specifically for food is most appropriate

Chocolate stick, dessert stick or Poky.

Zombie Cupcake - Gravestone.

Modelling Monstrosities On Your Zombie Cupcakes

Mix the fondant icing for modelling and make up some brains, tombstones, eyes and hands, use a toothpick to add detail where required

Mix the glace icing. We added a dash of black food colouring for a suitable pallid flesh tone

Apply the glace icing to the cupcakes – press in the modelled features as it cures

For the tombstone or hand cake, dip the semi-cured glace icing into the crushed Oreos, use a dessert stick to hold the feature in place

Put a drop of each food colouring colour on a plate and go to town on decorating the cakes. Less is more, and a drop of fresh clean water with help the colours blend and run into the cracks on the fondant icing.

Zombie Cupcakes - Under construction.

Sit back, relax and enjoy with a nice cup of tea and wait for all this to blow over.

Zombie Cupcakes - Yummy!

If you're looking some more awesomely undead ideas for zombie cupcakes, check out the following books.

Get yer Zomb On!

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