Brain slug cupcakes

Cory Doctorow 8:04 am Mon Jan 25, 2010

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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