Brain Food

If you want to be brain healthy and extra smart: I wouldn't recommend eating these! 

Rich chocolate cake with a Swiss meringue buttercream "brain".  

The cupcake sleeves were traced onto black scapbooking paper then I made signs and glued them on.  The crinkle cut at the top of the cupcake sleeve adds a fun touch.  

The frosting seemed like it had too many air holes.  I'm not sure why that happened.  

The recipe recommended that it be whipped for a long time to insure that the bubbles were out.  

I whipped it but still . . .

I  borrowed most of the names from Martha Stewart.  But I came up with a few as well.  

The lame ones are likely mine.  :)

 We had: Smart T Pants, Sir Thinks-a-Lot, Albert Mindstein, Intell E Gent, Ima Wiseman, Clever Clive, Mr. Know-it-All, Al Weighs Right, Whitt E. Banter, Mrs. Anne Sirs, Ms. Bright Brain, and Smart Alec, which I accidentally typed as SNart Alec.  Nice, right?

Brains were made by piping a D shape on one half of the brain then filing in the D with squiggly brain matter.  Repeat on the other side.

The frosting was tinted grey (like grey matter) but I think I could have made it even more grey; looks too white. 

Brains actually took some piping practice.  I had the wrong size piping tip and no luxury to go to the store to buy the right one; one kiddo sleeping and one all up in my business.  I could have used the good ol' fashioned ziploc but the holes I cut in the corner of the bag tend to have an edge to them; no good.  

Some of the brains were so poorly done that I scraped them off and tried again.  Eventually I got tired and called it "good enough."  

I've included a jpg image of the cupcake sleeve and the brain tags.  Save the image in your files then open it up on Word or whatever.  The brain tags should each be about 1.5 inches wide.  The sleeves should be stretched to 9.25 inches.  Print out the sleeve, trace it on cardstock or chipboard and use the more firm template as your stencil.