Bloody Broken Glass Cupcakes

I made these broken glass cupcakes for my nephew's birthday. They turned out so creepy that I thought I would share them here for Halloween. I tried out a few different methods for sugar glass and included the method which produced the clearest glass for me.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 30 mins
• Total Time: 60 mins
• Calories: 377 Calories

Ingredients

• ⅓ cup vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• ½ cup light corn syrup
• 1 cup water
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
• 2 cups water
• 3 ½ cups white sugar
• 15 drops red food coloring
• ¼ cup water, or more as needed
• 1 (16 ounce) can white frosting
• 3 drops blue food coloring

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two 12-cupcake tins with paper liners.

Step 2

Blend cake mix, water, vegetable oil, and eggs in a large bowl. Beat with a mixer on low speed for 2 minutes. Divide cake batter between the prepared cupcake tins.

Step 3

Bake cupcakes in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 18 to 22 minutes. Cool completely. Frost cupcakes with white frosting.

Step 4

Make sugar glass: Mix water, corn syrup, white sugar, and cream of tartar in a large saucepan; bring to a boil. Use a candy thermometer and boil sugar syrup, stirring constantly, until temperature reaches 300 degrees F (150 degrees C), hard ball stage. Mixture will thicken as water evaporates. Once sugar reaches the desired temperature, quickly pour it onto a metal baking pan. Cool until completely hardened. Break into "shards" using a meat mallet.

Step 5

Make edible blood: Mix together corn syrup and cornstarch in a large bowl. Slowly stir in water, adding more if necessary, until corn syrup mixture has thickened to the consistency of blood. Stir in red and blue food coloring.

Step 6

Stab each frosted cupcake with a few shards of broken sugar glass. Drizzle on drops of edible blood to complete the effect.