Nice Bloody Shattered Drinking Glass Cupcakes

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You know that i soul that gets means also excited close Halloween? I'M THAT PERSON. Give me all the candy corn, costumes, as well as jack-o-lanterns! I've e'er made cute holiday-themed desserts, but this fourth dimension I wanted to drive something a petty creepy.

This edible drinking glass is i of the easiest cupcake decorations I've ever made. As you'll encounter below, I simply mixed ii ingredients together as well as heated it inwards the microwave. I also had this Wilton cherry-red nutrient gel on mitt as well as it made for the perfect blood!



Shattered Glass Cupcakes
Ingredients
For the chocolate cupcakes

• 3/4 loving cup (95 grams) all-purpose flour
• 1/2 loving cup (42 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 loving cup lite dark-brown saccharide (200 grams)
• 1/3 loving cup unsalted Challenge butter, melted
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/2 loving cup milk

For the vanilla frosting

• 1 loving cup unsalted Challenge butter softened
• 5 cups powdered saccharide (630 grams)
• 2 Tablespoons heavy cream
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

For the shattered glass

• 1 loving cup granulated saccharide (200 grams)
• 1/2 loving cup corn syrup

Directions
For the chocolate cupcakes

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a  cupcake/muffin pan amongst cupcake liners. Set aside.
2. Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, as well as tabular array salt inwards large bowl; ready aside.
3. Mix eggs, dark-brown sugar, butter, as well as vanilla inwards medium bowl; slow add together to dry out ingredients. Add milk as well as stir until simply combined.
4. Fill cupcake liners 1/2 full; bake for xviii minutes or until toothpick inserted inwards centre comes out clean.
5. Cool earlier frosting.

For the vanilla frosting

1. Cream softened butter on medium speed for close iii minutes. Slowly add together powdered saccharide as well as crunch amongst mixer until combined.
2. Add heavy cream, vanilla, as well as salt, as well as crunch for close iii minutes. Frost cupcakes.

For the shattered glass

1. Lay canvass of wax newspaper on baking canvass as well as spray amongst nonstick spray; ready aside
2. Combine saccharide as well as corn syrup inwards microwave rubber bowl
3. Seal bowl amongst plastic wind as well as rut inwards microwave for 2 minutes
4. Remove from microwave, discard plastic wrap, as well as stir.
5. Seal bowl amongst plastic wind i time again as well as rut inwards microwave for ii minutes
6. Remove plastic wind from bowl as well as pour boiling mixture onto wax paper. Careful, it volition live hot.
7. Let harden for xv to xx minutes.
8. Shatter edible drinking glass amongst knife into 1-inch size pieces. Stick shattered drinking glass inwards frosting equally decorations. Use cherry-red decorating gel or nutrient coloring to practise a blood-looking number on the frosting.

Chocolate cupcake recipe adapted from Sally's Baking Addiction

Here are a few other examples of cute Halloween cupcakes!