HOWTO Bake vampire cupcakes that bleed

Claire sez, "Maybe I've seen one too many horror movies already this year, but I'm totally into the idea of a Hallowe'en cupcake that bleeds when you bite into it. Especially since they bleed cherry filling (actual blood would probably put me right off cupcakes)."

I baked my cupcakes, used the cupcake-filling technique I used on my devil's food cupcakes to fill the cakes up with pureed cherry pie filling (canned or homemade) and topped them off with white icing to best accentuate the red bite marks. I made the marks using a skewer dipped in leftover cherry filling, making sure to leave a clear impression of a fang bite, rather than just a red streak on top of the cake.

Link (Thanks, Claire!)

[#1 posted by Kyle Armbruster , October 19, 2007 5:02 PM]

Hey, waitaminute... I thought Cory didn't EAT sugar! Is someone back on the sweet horse of deliciousness?

These are the best things I have ever seen. If only Halloween weren't on a stupid weekday this year (I've never been able to have Halloween parties on other days--it just seems sad to me).

[#2 posted by erindipity , October 19, 2007 9:25 PM]

Sweet horse of deliciousness, alright!
Claire, will you adopt me?

[#3 posted by Parq , October 20, 2007 8:25 AM]

My wife the baker took a look and announced they're ours.

[#4 posted by Cory Doctorow , October 20, 2007 8:42 AM]

No, no, I'm living through you, the sugar-soaked readers. I'm pure, alas.

[#5 posted by erindipity , October 20, 2007 10:00 AM]

oh hai, did u bited me?

[#6 posted by Encik su , October 21, 2007 11:14 AM]

Stab the vampire at the heart while it eat the cupcakes.hehehe

[#7 posted by procrastinator , October 22, 2007 11:13 AM]

and here i was just planning to make a stupid martha stewart ghost cake (ok i still think it's cute)
http://www.marthastewart.com/boo-tiful-cake?xsc=stf_MSLO-ARTICLE