Brain And Eye Halloween Cupcakes

• 1 medium egg
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 8 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 lemon peeled and zested
• 2 cups plain flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 tablespoon raspberry jelly
• 1/2 cup cream cheese
• 3 1/3 cups icing sugar
• 6 blue or green smarties
• icing sugar brown and red

1. Preheat oven to 350u0b0F. Line a 12 cup muffin pan with paper liners. Mix egg, sugar, vanilla, oil, buttermilk, lemon zest and 1 tbsp lemon juice. Fold in flour, baking powder and baking soda. Distribute batter between paper liners and bake for 20-25 mins. Allow to cool for 10 mins in the pan before removing to cool on a wire rack.
2. For the frosting, melt jelly and allow to cool slightly. Whisk together cream cheese, 1 tbsp lemon juice and powdered sugar. Set aside 1/3 of the frosting and add cooled jelly into the remaining 2/3.
3. Spread 1/2 the cupcakes with white frosting and decorate with smarties and brown and red icing to look like eyes. Transfer the pink frosting to a piping bag and pipe onto remaining muffins to look like brains.

egg, caster sugar, vanilla essence, vegetable oil, buttermilk, lemon, flour, baking powder, baking soda, raspberry jelly, cream cheese, icing sugar, green smarties, icing sugar

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Brain-and-Eye-Halloween-Cupcakes-1411647 (may not work)