Rosanna Pansino’s Brain Cupcakes Are a Spooky Sweet Treat: Recipe

Rosanna Pansino’s Halloween-inspired cupcake recipe could have you channeling your inside zombie.

The Halloween Cookie Problem cohost’s mind cupcakes make the proper creepy deal with for any spooky season celebration. “Whereas I wouldn’t suggest consuming precise brains, I definitely gained’t attempt to cease you from consuming these raspberry-flavored cupcakes,” Pansino, 38, solely shares within the newest concern of Us Weekly.

Regardless of their gory look, the cupcakes couldn’t style any sweeter as they’re made with raspberries and topped with fruit-flavored pretend blood. “You gained’t remorse whipping them up,” Pansino provides.

Pansino launched her profitable YouTube channel in 2010 and has change into one of many platform’s largest stars with 14.5 million subscribers. Along with her common baking collection Nerdy Nummies — wherein she bakes pop culture-inspired treats — she additionally teaches viewers baking fundamentals, from perfecting frosting to creating home made fondant and extra.

Exterior of the kitchen, Pansino has appeared as a number and choose on a number of competitors exhibits together with Baketopia, Craftopia and Charli Vs. Dixie. To not point out, she additionally launched her personal baking line and launched two cookbooks.

Most just lately, she returned because the cohost of Meals Community’s Halloween Cookie Problem alongside chef Duff Goldman.

“Season 2 is lastly right here! I couldn’t be extra excited to announce that an all-new season of my Meals Community present ‘Halloween Cookie Problem’ is popping out September twenty fifth at 10 pm / 9 pm Central on @foodnetwork and @streamonmax!” she wrote alongside the present’s season 2 trailer by way of Instagram on September 18. “New episodes Each Monday!! 🍪👻🎃🦇.”

Noting that she “completely cherished internet hosting this season with the wonderful and gifted @duffgoldman,” she added, “You gained’t consider how inventive this years [sic] bakers are!”

The Halloween cooking competitors sees teams of 4 bakers go head-to-head to take advantage of extravagant, scrumptious and scary cookie creations in hopes of profitable a $10,000 prize.

Together with consuming ghoulish desserts, she and Goldman, 48, have gotten into the Halloween spirit by sporting enjoyable and festive outfits in every episode. She adopted up a mummy-inspired ensemble for the season premiere by sporting a brilliant orange costume, a gothic purple and black robe and an all-black outfit based mostly on Wednesday Addams’ iconic look, amongst others.

For her newest look on the competitors collection, Pansino channeled Gale Weathers’ (Courteney Cox) memorable neon inexperienced energy go well with from 1996’s Scream with a go well with mini costume, bedazzled tights and black Mary Jane heels.

Maintain scrolling to examine Pansino’s full mind cupcake recipe:

The season 2 finale of Halloween Cookie Problem airs on Meals Community Monday, October 30, at 10 p.m.

Mind Cupcakes

Serves 12

Components

For Raspberry Cake

• 1 ¾ cups unsweetened frozen raspberries
• ¼ cup entire milk
• ¾ cup all-purpose flour
• ¾ cake flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 12 tbsp (1 ½ sticks) un-salted butter, at room temperature
• ¾ cup sugar
• 2 massive eggs
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• Pink meals coloring

For Raspberry Blood Topping

• ½ cup seedless raspberry jam
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp water
• Pink meals coloring

For Decorations

• 1 batch Swiss buttercream frosting

Directions

For Cupcakes

1. Preheat the oven to 350 levels. Line 12 cups of a muffin tin with liners.

2. Make the raspberry cake: In a microwave-safe bowl, microwave the raspberries till thawed, 60 to 90 seconds. In a blinder, puree the raspberries till clean.

3. Pressure the raspberry puree right into a small bowl to take away the seeds. Whisk within the milk.

4. In a medium bowl, whisk collectively the all-purpose flour, cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

5. In a big bowl, with an electrical mixer, beat the butter and sugar till mild and fluffy, 3 to five minutes.

6. Add the eggs one after the other, beating nicely after every addition.

7. Beat within the vanilla and a pair of drops of purple meals coloring.

8. With the mixer on low velocity, alternate including the flour combination and the raspberry combination to the butter combination, starting and ending with the flour combination.

9. Fill every liner two-thirds full with batter and bake till a wood pic inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clear, 15 to 17 minutes.

10. Switch to a wire rack to chill

For Adorning

1. Make the raspberry blood topping: In a small saucepan, whisk collectively the jam, lemon juice and water and convey to a boil over medium warmth.

2. Take away from the warmth and whisk in purple meals coloring. Let cool utterly earlier than use.

3. Scoop half the Swiss buttercream frosting right into a adorning bag fitted with a #1A tip and pipe small mound of frosting on prime of every cupcake.

4. Scoop the remaining frosting right into a adorning bag fitted with a #10 tip and pipe a mind design on every mound.

5. Drizzle with the raspberry blood.