Easy Eerie Exploding Eyeball Cupcakes (with Key S'lime ooze!)
Cupcakes in a Hurry
Love fun and creepy? Me too!
These were created by me from my sheer need to come up with something easy and quick to bring with me to parties (or hand out to friends!).
When you're pressed for time and you've committed to your childs class or your local church fundraiser for the next costumed event, you need something simple and fun!
I of all people know that cooking is not in everyones agenda of life and not everyone who does cook has time at the end of the day for these sorts of projects.
Make them for Halloween or any time of year when the simple decorations aren't doing it for you.
On top is a gummy eyeball, fun to decorate with, fun to display and fun to play with (if you know me or follow my blogs or hubs, you know I like to play with my food a lot.). The Key Lime tucked into the cake offers a mount tantalizing tang, leaving a tingling on your tongue that is quickly met with the sparkling, crackling sensation of the poprocks.
Happy Halloween
Ingredients
- 1 Box Cake Mix (I used Lemon because I liked the Citrus theme)
- Whatever you Need for Box Cake Mix
- Frosting (I used Lemon)
- Key Lime Curd
- Green Food Coloring (optional)
- Poprocks (optional)
- Gummy Eyeballs
- Cupcake Wrappers
- Cupcake Tin
- Wilton Tip #230 with decorating bag (optional)
Instructions
- Make cake according to mix in cupcake wrappers. Cool completely.
- Use one to two drops of food coloring (optional) to color Frosting and pep up the Key Lime Curd hue (it's more yellowish) if you so desire to have the bright green pictured in this lens!
- Use Wilton Tip #230 to inject lime curd into top center of completely cool cupcakes.
- Decorate with Frosting.
- Sprinkle with Pop-rocks for the Exploding effect.
Assembling Ingredients
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Our Kitchen Secret
Idea for Cupcakes and the End Result
The first thing I knew along my search for these cakes was that I wanted them filled. Not only did I know I wanted them filled, I knew it had to be something that oozed. I went around in my head through all my favorite cartoons as a child, knowing I needed these to be not horribly scary but fun and age appropriate for all.
Oozing... Crawling... Dripping...Slimy...Slimer... Slime...S'lime
KEY S'LIME CUPCAKES
That was it! I had the perfect plan.
Except it wasn't good enough so I put eyeballs on top and poprocks so they'd keep on surprising the recipient!
The end result turned out like I had hoped! They're very sweet but the popping in the mouth is fun and really adds an additional kick to the already tart insides.
Lemon or Lime?
