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Yeah, it's a wide hug. What? Fat Kid Kitchen, no?
Anyway. Let's just pick up where we left off before things get awkward between us. This past weekend was the premiere of Game of Thrones: Season 2, on HBO. And Liz took part in a daring mission to bring a dish representing the House of Lannister to a premiere party that night. Just so ya know, this will be made infinitely more fun if you're caught up a little bit on the series/characters. You may do some of that research here!
Good to go? Great. Here's what happened.
Liz got help from this gentleman we know who we're going to call Sam. Because that is his name. This was actually his idea! He thought of doing red velvet cupcakes with "blonde hair" frosting. The Lannisters are a blonde, rather incestuous family line. It's a whole thing. Then Liz said, "And what if when you bit into it, there were guts inside?!" It's not a GoT reference without some serious gore, after all. And thus became...
Game of Thrones Bloody Lannister Cupcakes
We were lazy traitors who used a red velvet cake mix because time was of the essence. However, we're sure a from-scratch recipe would be worlds better!
YOU WILL NEED....
-Red Velvet Cake Mix (water, 3 eggs, vegetable oil)
-Yellow food coloring
-Cream cheese frosting
-Cherry pie filling
-Silver and Gold cupcake liners, large and extra small
So, pretty self explanatory at first! You combine that cake mix. You marvel in the glory that it is turning red before your eyes. Etc.
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| Well this is uncomfortable. I think I wore this shirt in the last FKK entry photos... |
When you divide them into the silver/gold cupcake liners, be sure to make a couple of them in the small liners. In honor of THIS GUY. Tyrion gets his own damn personalized cupcakes cuz damn straight.
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| Teeny cupcake on a hill surveying his kingdom. Doesn't see ogre about to attack. |
Then, once they've baked for 20 minutes and cooled for 15, cut a half-inch circle with a small cerated knife around each cupcake half. Pop out the little top of the cupcake and you should have a tiny canyon inside of it!
Meanwhile, prepare the cherry filling. Each of our cupcakes had a heart and some blood inside. Use a ziploc bag with the corner cut off, like so:
Then fill the little hole in each of the cupcakes with the goopy red stuff and one cherry! We didn't fill the Tyrion cupcakes because they were too little. We also didn't want to condemn the only awesome Lannister to a bloody death so...not giving him any blood and guts was the easiest way around that.
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| The heart of a traitor!!!! |
Then replace the little cap you carved out so it's all closed up. Meanwhile, get the frosting ready! Simply add a few drops of yellow food coloring to the cream cheese icing and... Voila: fair haired villains! Then place one of the tiny cupcake liners on top of each cake so they're each wearing a "crown". Maybe there can only really be one king, but don't tell THEM that.
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| Tyrion cupcake leads the Lannister Army to battle. |
We know these weren't some of our finest photos. Let it go, we beg of you. Liz didn't really think to post them on the blog till all was said and done.
So...to make up for this, we're about to drop some KNOWLEDGE right about now. DID YOU KNOW THAT AUNTIE ANNE'S PRETZELS NOW HAS A MIX YOU CAN MAKE AT HOME?! Ya didn't? Well now you do. We made those too on this same day. So now you don't have to wait to go to the movie theater and sit through some remake of a remake of an 80s comic book nobody read just so you can eat a soft, glorious, oily pretzel. You can have them at home and watch Game of Thrones. Or Downton Abbey. Or something. You like pretzels and British accents. We're just assuming.
Catch you next time! We swear it won't be four months from now. :)
Liz
