How-Tuesdays: Bleeding Vampire Cupcakes

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Published on Oct 09, 2009 in Make

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We’re bringing this goodie back to the top. Last year’s vampire cupcakes are totally not stale — still full of sweet blood. Mwahahahah!

[Originally published October 21, 2008.]

Welcome to Etsy How-Tuesday. This week, in preparation for Halloween, we bring you Alicia and Tracy of Sweet Tooth of the Tiger who show us how to make Bleeding Vampire Cupcakes!

Here are the steps for making Bleeding Vampire Cupcakes!

  1. Bake a batch of vanilla cupcakes.  We use the no-fail recipe for vanilla cupcakes by Julie Hasson from her book “125 Best Cupcake Recipes,” but you can use your own favorite vanilla cupcake recipe or a box mix works fine also.
  2. After cupcakes are cooled, use a pointed sharp knife to carefully cut a cone out of the center of the cupcake.  Be sure to tilt your knife outwards so you create a cone shape.
  3. Take the cone out and set it aside.
  4. Open a jar or can of cherry pie filling and puree it in a blender or food processor.
  5. Spoon pureed cherry pie filling into the center of the cone’d cupcakes.
  6. Take the previously cut out cones and carefully cut the top off of them, setting the pointy part aside. Use the flat top part of the cone as a cap for the pie filling hole.
  7. The bleeding cupcakes are now ready to be frosted! Use a white frosting, preferably a seven minute frosting (recipe below), which is made by combining egg whites and sugar over a double boiler. Or you can use a buttercream or a can of prepared white frosting.
  8. Once cupcakes are frosted, dip a toothpick in the cherry pie filling (get a generous amount on the toothpick), and stab the cupcake near the edge. Dip the toothpick in the pie filling again and dribble some filling from out of the hole to make it look like a bleeding vampire bite. Do this twice.
  9. Viola! Bleeding vampire cupcakes. When your guests bite into these yummy cherry-vanilla sweets, they will look like they’re bleeding!

SPOOKY!

Easy Seven Minute Frosting

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 3 large egg whites
  • 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract


Preparation:
In large metal bowl, whisk together 1/3 cup water, sugar, egg whites, cream of tartar, and salt. Set bowl over pan of barely simmering water
and mix with handheld electric mixer at low speed. Gradually increase speed to high, beating until mixture holds stiff peaks, about 5 minutes.

Transfer bowl from pan to folded kitchen towel on counter and continue beating until mixture is cool and billowy, about 2 minutes more. Beat
in vanilla. (Frosting can be made 4 hours ahead and chilled, covered.)

(P.S. For you Twilight folks, we know your fangs will be biting into these cupcakes. Check out this post!)

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