Vampire Cupcake

Or "Vampcakes" as I like to call them :)

I saw this recipe for these suckers (Ha!) on BoingBoing the other day and thought they were awesome. So I got it in my head to make 'em.

However, the recipe above looked like far too much effort for some raised on Betty Crocker mixes, so I altered it just a tad - by using a cake mix and a canister of Whipped frosting. It worked a treat so if these appeal to you and you're a lazy baker like me, feel free to ad lib like I did.

The cake mix I chose was French Vanilla (mmmmm) and the frosting is also vanilla. I had a lot of fun making these and cracking cheesy vampire jokes (What does a vampire fear most? Tooth decay!) When I put the cherry pie filling (which ends up being both the 'blood' inside the cupcake and the bite decoration) in the food processor, I managed to squick myself a little. It looked quite gory :)

Anyway here's a pic of the first batch:



And here's the inside after Shannon took a bite:



Neat eh? I'm taking ost of them to work tomorrow. Even made a Vampcakes sign complete with various vampires (Spike and Angel are in there of course! Along with Bela, Nosferatu, Lestat and Udo Kier from Andy Warhol's Dracula)



Dorky? Me? Nahhh ;)