{"id":333,"date":"2007-10-29T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=333"},"modified":"2007-10-29T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T02:49:00","slug":"vampire-cupcake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2007\/10\/29\/vampire-cupcake\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Cupcake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or &#8220;Vampcakes&#8221; as I like to call them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/bakingbites.com\/2007\/10\/vampire-cupcakes\/\">this recipe<\/a> for these suckers (Ha!) on BoingBoing the other day and thought they were awesome. So I got it in my head to make &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>However, the recipe above looked like far too much effort for some raised on Betty Crocker mixes, so I altered it just a tad &#8211; by using a cake mix and a canister of Whipped frosting. It worked a treat so if these appeal to you and you&#8217;re a lazy baker like me, feel free to ad lib like I did.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8216;blood&#8217; inside the cupcake and the bite decoration) in the food processor, I managed to squick myself a little. It looked quite gory \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyway here&#8217;s a pic of the first batch:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0003-773247.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0003-773240.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the inside after Shannon took a bite:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0005-792819.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0005-792816.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neat eh? I&#8217;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&#8217;s Dracula)<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/vampcakes-787474.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/vampcakes-787468.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dorky? Me? Nahhh \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or &#8220;Vampcakes&#8221; as I like to call them \ud83d\ude42 I saw this recipe for these suckers (Ha!) on BoingBoing the other day and thought they were awesome. So I got&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}