Brain And Eye Halloween Cupcakes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 medium egg
125 g caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
8 tbsp vegetable oil
250 ml buttermilk
1 None lemon, peeled and zested
250 g plain flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp raspberry jelly
120 g cream cheese
400 g icing sugar
6 None blue or green smarties
None None brown and red icing sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F. Line a 12 cup muffin pan with paper liners. Mix egg, sugar, vanilla, oil, buttermilk, lemon zest and 1 tbsp lemon juice. Fold in flour, baking powder and baking soda. Distribute batter between paper liners and bake for 20-25 mins. Allow to cool for 10 mins in the pan before removing to cool on a wire rack.
For the frosting, melt jelly and allow to cool slightly. Whisk together cream cheese, 1 tbsp lemon juice and powdered sugar. Set aside 1/3 of the frosting and add cooled jelly into the remaining 2/3.
Spread 1/2 the cupcakes with white frosting and decorate with smarties and brown and red icing to look like eyes. Transfer the pink frosting to a piping bag and pipe onto remaining muffins to look like brains.