Hello fellow ghouls! Guess what special day is tomorrow? That’s right, it’s Friday the 13th! Never mind that nothing bad had ever really happens to people on that date. I take note of the date because it gives me an excuse to make something deliciously ghoulish. I mean Hallowe’en is soooo many months away!
This year’s Friday the 13th eyeball cupcakes are for Mr NQN’s colleagues at work. They have all learned the hard way that he is nothing but the naughtiest trickster who delights in playing tricks on them. He will literally turn anything into a chance to play a prank on some unsuspecting soul. A few weeks ago, one of his colleagues was walking down a street in the city when he found a memory card on the ground. Curious, he took it back to work and put it in his computer. In it he saw that there were surveillance files from a government agency.
Nervous, he told a few of his colleagues about it including Mr NQN (big mistake-huge! I hear you say and you’d be right). Mr NQN’s ears grew pointy and his nose long and a cheeky grin spread across his face. He quietly slipped his mobile phone out of his pocket and switched it on silent. Around the corner he texted his colleague with the message.
“We know what you have…”
His colleague was nervy and decided to go for a walk with another workmate, a tall man. Mr NQN saw this and then texted him
“Don’t be alone with tall agents.”
Then unable to resist with more cryptic texts “I know what you did last Summer.”
By now his colleague was on the verge of wetting his pants, seeing possible snipers on every rooftop. That’s when Mr NQN pounced with his last message.
“Orders are to take you out”
He then wheeled his chair over to him grinning his monkey grin at his poor white as a sheet colleague.
These cupcakes are for that poor soul. After Mr NQN told me about what he did, after I wiped the tears from my eyes laughing, I promised Mr NQN that I would make some cupcakes for his victim. But of course they wouldn’t be normal ones would they? I saw this idea in my new favourite book “Zombie Cupcakes” by Zilly Rosen and they are surprisingly easy to make and mainly require the fashioning of an eyeball which is really quite easy.
I love baking with sour cream and buttermilk because it gives cakes such a moist texture and I thought that the swirls of chunky jam would give the cake an appropriately blood clot look. The eyeballs themselves are very easy to make using fondant and basic cutters and for the blood I just used more of the jam. And voila, a cupcake to perhaps scare the pants off any nervy soul!
Happy Friday the 13th for tomorrow! So tell me Dear Readers, have you ever found anything mysterious or interesting? And has anything ever had happened to you on Friday the 13th?
Eyeball Cupcakes
Sour cream, rhubarb and berry cupcakes
Makes 12 cupcakes
- 150g/5 ozs butter
- 1 cup caster or superfine sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup / 250grams light sour cream
- 1 cup cake flour*
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 heaped tablespoons rhubarb or strawberry jam (chunky strawberry is good=blood clots!) I used an Anathoth rhubarb and red berry jam
For decoration
- White fondant
- Chocolate fondant
- A small amount of blue fondant
- Edible red ink pen
- Rhubarb or strawberry jam
- A few drops of red food colouring
- You will also need a little water and a small paintbrush
Buyer’s tip: You can make cake flour by placing 2 tablespoons of cornflour in a measuring cup and filling up to the 1 cup level with plain all purpose flour.
1. Preheat oven to 170C/340F and line a cupcake tin with liners. Beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time combining well after each addition. In another bowl mix the baking powder and flour together until well combined.
Jam swirls aka blood clots!
2. In alternate lots add the sour cream and flour until mixed together. Add the jam and swirl through so that you get streaks of “blood” and clots. I know it’s gruesome but hey you’re making an eyeball cupcake so don’t give me that look 
Using a mechanical ice cream scoop or two spoons scoop the thick batter into the prepared tin.
3. Bake for 20-25 minutes until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin.
I know, it looks like a giant sperm…
Cutting out the irises
Bloodshot sperm ahem eyes!
4. To make eyeballs: just pinch of a round of white fondant and roll it into a ball and pulling a little at one end to make the tapering connecting tendon. Roll out the blue fondant very thinly and using the large end of a piping tip, cut out a blue circle. Affix this to the end of the eyeball to make the iris using a little water applied with the paintbrush. Roll out a small amount of the brown fondant thinly and cut a smaller disc out and affix this to the blue fondant with water to make the pupil. Roll out some balls of brown fondant and shape into a sausage form and use your fingers to shape into an eyebrow-they are surprisingly easy to make. Use a small knife to draw eyebrow hair patterns in the eyebrows.
From ball to sausage to eyebrow
Stick your thumb into the centre of the cupcake-yes it’s fun!
5. Take the cooled cupcake and stick your thumb into the centre to make a depression. Brush the cupcakes with a little jam (I used white chocolate ganache as I had some handy but that’s an extra item to make) and roll out the white fondant to cut out rounds that will fit on top of the cupcakes. Affix these using the stickiness of the jam making sure to press down the centre.
6. Add a few drops of red food colouring to 2-3 tablespoons of jam and mix together. Fill the centre with the red jam. Affix the eyeball to the side of the cupcake as shown using a little water and the paintbrush and affix the eyebrow above it. You’re now ready to scare the pants off anyone that plays any tricks on you
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Wow Lorraine, you must be so patient – your cupcakes always look so amazing. Alas, I am a very impatient girl but at least I can look and enjoy ;P
Terrific! I really love those morbid cupcakes. I didn’t realize it’ll be the 13th on Friday. ;-P
Cheers,
Rosa
Looooove these! haha SO grose!
No… nothing of note has ever happened to me on Friday the 13th, but a friend of mine swears it’s always lucky for her! ha!
I just came across your blog and am enjoying the lovely recipes and posts. This one will be such a hit for our neighborhood block party this weekend. Thank you and look forward to following you!
These are definitely on the menu for next Halloween! The grandkids will just love them…
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! These things are horrifying! lol Surely they tasted good, but they’d be hard to eat.
Oh my gosh, they are awfully scary, but in a good way of course.
I like your idea of having an extra Halloween!
LOL – these are definitely ghoulish. Nothing mysterious has happened to me, and I’d like to keep it that way.
oh these look so wonderfully grotesque!
I love you love of all things ghoulish
and the cake sounds pretty yum too..!
Just have to say love the last photo with the ‘jam’ pooling on the knife!!
hahaha, they look disgusting!!!
These look fantastic!
Hahahaha… you are just too clever …. well this is one recipe that i can’t say looks delish Lorraine … but very very clever … my kids would love these gory cupcakes
ok – well done on grossing me out whilst i was eating breakfast!
Well done! These are really gruesome.
They look fantastic and go Mr NQN for his prank
Fantastic! I wish I’d seen how to make the eyeballs when I had to make a decapitated head cake for Halloween/BF’s bday last year.
I can’t think of anything strange that I’ve found.
Didn’t realise what a cheeky sense of humour Mr.NQN has. Luckily, we readers are not on his ‘hit’ list.lol
These cupcakes are probably the best eyeballs around, you’re tooooo clever Lorraine.
I get excited about Friday 13th for different reasons, not being one that is into Halloween. I always buy a lottery ticket and keep my fingers crossed.
You just love making gruesome looking food don’t you?? =p Love how they come complete with eye brows and all =D
Oh these are amazing and hilarious Lorraine! I must get myself a copy of that book!
Lorraine, You live for days like this don’t you?
This Friday 13, my step daughter graduates from law school. I hope she never sues us! hahaha
WOW, so scary to look this as it look so real, hahaha..
Ooooh I saw that book at the bookstore the other day and had to be held back by Jason to stop myself from buying it!
These are hysterical and really gross but I bet delicious!
eek Lorraine they are disgusting! I have the Zombie Cupcakes book too but can’t bring myself to make any of it lol. Sounds like you had fun making them
These are hilarious and so is the story. Poor man
I bet enjoyed the cupcakes. Im bookmarking hte recipe for the cupcakes. they look delicious and I love sour cream in a recipe …i know the cupcakes are moist for sure!
Brilliant! Such a prankster lol. The cupcakes look amazing
at least they will put some colour back in to the poor soul haha
Mr NQN DOES have quite a sense of humour, doesn’t he?
Cute, cute!! In Estonia many think Friday the 13th to be a lucky day actually, BUT, tho’ nothing good or bad has ever happened to me, I’m kind’a pleased when I’ve put the day to bed!!
Mr NQN I take my hat off to you sir, that is genius.
Although, The AFP are silly buggars losing that card aren’t they.
Oh well. The cupcakes look divine. Truly. I’m very jealous that I shan’t be getting a few.
But Friday the 13th, it’s just not my kind of day. I generally forget it’s even happening. Now I know though, I think I’ll need something suitably ghoulish to make.
Please do let us know how the “prankee” receives the gift. He may be worried they’re part of another prank!
Very gross and very cool.
These are so much fun!!! My kids would absolutely go bananas over these amusing cupcakes!
Dear L.
You and Mr. MQN are way too much fun…!!!!!! xxx
sounds like a lot of fun and games at Mr NQN’a work place – hope his colleague gets a laugh out of the cupcakes – I am off to the dentist tomorrow and have been having visions of the dentist in little shop of horrors
Loved the prop touch with the hospital barf dish. heh heh. I have never had bad luck on Friday the 13th, even when a black cat crossed my path. Mr NQN sure knows how to scare the willies out of a guy. :-O
These are outrageously fun looking! Creepy — but in a good way. And remind me to never turn my back on Mr. NQN if I’m ever in his vicinity. Hah.
hehe I love your creativity! I also love baking with buttermilk – one of my fav ingredients. Nothing strange has ever happened to me on Friday the 13th, we’ll see though!
Heidi xo
Very funny story:) Your husband is QUITE a jokester! You are very good at eyeball making, Lorraine…perfect cupcakes for a scare, that’s for sure! 13 is actually my lucky number, ever since I won a cake on the cakewalk at the school carnival in sixth grade:) Have a fun day!
P.S. Oops… I won the cake by landing on #13!
You know that when I say “gross”, I mean it as a real compliment. Also, I like the idea of sour cream and jam for the cupcake-
oh dang Lorraine!! you are so talented! these look tooooo real~it’s really magazine worthy
Poor, poor man, how cruel- but sooo worth it! These look deliciously disgusting and elegantly evil. I hope they cheer the poor man up!
me gosh. they scare me!
Lol they look disgusting! Love it
Funny story (i’m guessing they handed the memory card back to the AFP right??) would have loved to see Mr NQN’s colleague’s face
wicked
Very well done, Lorraine. These look superbly gruesome – I admire your patience and eye (giggle) for detail.
LOL that’s funny! What an evil prank! I hope his collegue likes these cupcakes, they look insane!
Happy friday the thirteenth for tomorrow everyone!
*laughs and laughs* At first I felt bad for Mr NQN’s colleague, but I stopped when he didn’t work out what was going on when he got the “I know what you did last summer” text. Silly fellow!
P.S. This is, I think, the first post of yours that has made me not want to eat the food in the bowl by my side! Amazingly gruesome, my dear. I bow down to you!
Love baking with Buttermilk… Made Cappuccino Buttermilk Muffins….
Your cupcakes are so creative
Haha cheeky Mr NQN!
These would be so apropos for me to take into work tomorrow, being an optometrist. I’m used to gory eyes but these are really scary looking. Well done!
Haha, lovely!
I love these! So kooky and creative. Nice one, Lorraine.
Another great spooky creation!
Ahhh, love this! These cupcakes are so much fun, Lorraine! I love your knack for Halloween-ish things…they always look awesome!
These are wicked! Love the spider web finishing touch on the cake box!
Love that you made these! Your Hallowe’en recipes were so creative. And your husband sounds hysterical- his poor colleague.
OMG! That really looks scary! I think you did an awesome job on that. I totally forgot that it’s Friday the 13th today – not that I’ve had bad luck before. This is a really fun way to remember Friday the 13th!
ggrrrrrggrrr…help
=)
My son would have loved these cakes when he was a boy. He would probably still like them.
Gosh… this is such a halloween cupcake! must remember the tip about sourcream and buttermilk when making my next cupcakes.
How deliciously gruesome! And those texts were straight out of a CSI or Criminal Minds episode – WIN!
(And speaking of CM, you ought to post a pic of these little tasties on MGG’s Facebook page – he’s a fan of anything Halloween-esque!)
What a hilarious story. That book looks quite interesting too. Happy Friday 13th!
Hi Midge-Great idea! I posted it on the wall there. Eek I hope I’m allowed to do that!
i’ve been fortunate never to see an actual eyeball out of its socket, so i’m a little skeeved out at the looks of these fake ones. skeeved out, yes, but not too skeeved out to eat the cupcakes.
I once found $750 on the floor of a pharmacy. I was flat broke and would have loved to have kept it, but have been brought up far too well, and handed it in. I try to treat others the way I would want to be treated, and besides, there’s good karma.
Love that you have a Zombie Cupcakes cookbook. Too fun. These are fabulous. I’d love to hear what the co-worker said. xoxo Mum
WOW! I love these! great work!!!
EEEWWWWWW!!! Love the eyeballs! What a great alternative to chocolates on the pillows in your guest room!
I adore your scary/Halloween posts, they’re always so awesome!! One day I might just have to crash one of your Halloween parties…
The jam makes gorgeous blood! It’s nice to know that the cupcake underneath is moist too. Too often cupcakes are all decoration and no flavour.
Love these! For Friday 13th My boyfriend and I watched “Black Death” and “The Rite”. I made chocolate meringues to nibble they were tasty but not as in theme as your scary cupcakes!
Dear NQN,
Could you please get your husband to contact me regarding an illegally obtained USB drive thanks.
Inspector Rex
Australian Fedral Police.
Dear AFP-I’m still at a loss to understand why you would record surveillance footage of black cats. Everyone knows that ginger Persian cats are amongst the most notorious for crimes. I know this because I had one and he used to steal the food from my plate.
Love,
NQN
xxx
LOL this looks PERFECT for Halloween.
Hahha Mr. NQN sounds like a real fun person. I love pranks! Those cupcakes look awesome
Oh wow those popping eyeballs!
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