Bloody Broken Glass Cupcakes

Serving Size: 12

These broken glass cupcakes look painfully good to eat. You can add fake blood and sugar glass to your favorite flavor of cupcake to get the desired effect. Recipe from: allrecipes.com

Recipe by: Allrecipes/Jai

Cook Times

Active Prep10

Hands-On Cook55

Hands-Off Cook20

Passive0

Total Time1 25

Recipe Serving Size12

Cooking Tools Required

Baking sheet, Electric Hand Mixer, Instant read thermometer, Mixing bowls, Muffin tin liners, Saucepan, Spatula, Standard muffin pan

Ingredients

18.25 ounce box white cake mix
1 cup water
1/3 cup avocado oil
3 egg
16 ounce can white frosting

Sugar Glass:

2 cup water
1 cup light corn syrup
3 1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

Edible Blood:

1/2 cup light corn syrup
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 cup water or more as needed
15 drops red food coloring
3 drops blue food coloring

Instructions

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 2, 12-cupcake tins with paper cupcake liners.
Blend cake mix, 1 cup water, vegetable oil, and eggs in a large bowl. Beat with a mixer on low speed for 2 minutes. Divide cake batter between lined cupcake tins.
Bake cupcakes in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 18 to 22 minutes. Cool completely. Frost cupcakes with white frosting.
Make the sugar glass. Mix 2 cups water, 1 cup corn syrup, white sugar, and cream of tartar in a large saucepan; bring to a boil. Use a candy thermometer and boil sugar syrup until temperature reaches 300 degrees (hard ball), stirring constantly. The mixture will thicken as water evaporates. When sugar reaches 300 degrees, quickly pour onto a metal baking pan. Cool until completely hardened. Break into "shards" using a meat mallet.
Make the edible blood. Mix together 1/2 cup corn syrup and cornstarch in a large bowl. Slowly stir in the 1/4 cup of water, adding more if necessary, until the corn syrup mixture has thickened to the consistency of blood. Stir in the red and blue food coloring.
Stab each frosted cupcake with a few shards of broken sugar glass. Drizzle on drops of "blood" to complete the effect.

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