For the “Gooey Brains” cupcake, bake up your favorite cupcake recipe and then mixed up a batch of traditional butter-cream or your favorite store-bought icing with some black food coloring to make it grey. (To make it like “grey matter”) We then piped it on top of the cupcakes using a wide round tip and our pastry decorator. This was no exact science as we were free-handing and looking at a photo for inspiration. Make two lines down the center of the cupcake, then fill in with swirls on either side and top with a little strawberry syrup “blood.”