Cupcake Baking Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350ºF
2. Cream together the sugar and shortening until soft and completely incorporated.
3. Mix in buttermilk, vanilla and eggs.
4. Sift in all the dry ingredients, and mix
5. Pour in the boiling water, and mix batter until smooth and no longer lumpy.
6. Pour into cupcake pan lined with muffin cups.
7. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until firm in the centers.
 

Filling Ingredients:
2 cups cold milk
1 box instant vanilla pudding
1 can (21 oz) cherry pie filling
1 Tbsp Red food coloring

Filling Directions:
1. Wisk the milk and pudding together until the pudding mix is dissolved.
2. Stir in the pie filling and add food coloring.
3. Mix well. It should look like the horribly obvious fake blood of a 70’s grindhouse flick.

For Frosting:
You can use your favorite premade white frosting, or do what I did and mix together 1 12oz can of frosting with 1 12oz tub of whipped cream cheese. I know, I know… they make cream cheese frosting, but for me its too sweet, tastes nothing like cream cheese, and is not the right shade of pallid white to give that pasty drained victim look…

Assembly Directions:
Cut out a large circle from the top of the cupcakes… this is easier if you angle your knife so that the piece you cut out is like a short cone shape, save for a “lid”. Scoop out a little bit of the center of the cupcake, being careful not to break the sides or go all the way to the bottom. Fill the now hollow cupcake with the blood red filling, and put the “lid” back on.

Swirl on your frosting, liberally all over the top. Make fang marks using a toothpick or skewer, and drizzle a little filling coming out from the holes… or you can use some store bought decorators gel… Then, of course… enjoy.

Suggested Movie Accompaniment: The Twilight Trilogy, Interview With A Vampire, Dracula, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Once Bitten

"I want to suck your blood!"