Ingredients
1 stick softened butter
4 oz cream cheese
2 T Crisco
2 pinches salt
1 t vanilla
8 cups powdered sugar
milk or cream as needed to get right consistency
dried strawberry (or berry), cut into bits
1/4 cup cocoa powder to taste/color
pink gel food color
Preparation
Beat butter, cream cheese, & Crisco until well-blended. Add pinch of salt. Sift 1 cup of sugar with cocoa, add to butter mixture. Then add rest of sugar, 1 cup at a time. Add berry & cocoa & pink food coloring and adjust as needed to look pinky-brown. Add milk or cream to get consistency to allow piping into brain lobes. Refrigerate cupcakes. Apply thin coat to cover top of cupcake. Pipe into 2 brain lobes. Refrigerate to hold shape.
