Brain slug cupcakes

Alicia Traveria's scrummy brain-slug cupcakes were made for a birthday party, using "gum paste, with royal icing eyes, and flower stamen antennae." There's also "some slight grenadine flavor" in the buttercream icing brains.

Brain Slugs! (via Neatorama)

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Thad E Ginataom

Nice. But too nice to eat… I like slugs.
Anonymous

AAAh !! The cutest slugs I ever saw.
Anonymous

Nauseating and delicious — what a combination….
GeekMan

“Woman: We favour unusually large subsidies to the Brain Slug planet.”
“Fry: Yeah, but what are you gonna do for the common man?”
“Woman: Put brain slugs on him.”
“Fry: Sure, you say that NOW…”
Fred H

MONOTONE VOICE:These are great. Now let’s all take a trip to the brain slug planet. Preferably without hates.
Fred H

MONOTONE VOICE:These are great. Now let’s all take a trip to the brain slug planet. Preferably without hats.
Amsterdaam

mmm… Braincakes…
Anonymous

Yum?
Anonymous

Hermes: On to new business. Todays mission is for you all to go to the Brain Slug Planet.
Zoidberg: What are we going to do there?
Hermes: Just walk around not wearing a helmet.
Anonymous

Yum yum, brain-slugs.
marti781

“Hey where’s Fry’s brain slug?”
“Poor little thing died of starvation.”

Futurama always makes me lol
Pipenta

Want.
Anonymous

Hermes’ Brain Slug gets knocked to the floor and someone picks it up and puts it back on his head.

Hermes’ (in robotic voice):’Thank you, it was cold down there on the floor’