Zilly Rosen - Zombie Cupcakes: From the Grave to the Table With 16 Cupcake Corpses

Zombie Cupcakes

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The author would like to thank Hannah Russell for all her artistic contributions and tireless labor on the book, and the fearless Shannon Pilarski, whose knowledge of all things zombie is only exceeded by her creativity and her sculpting ability. Without Shannon, the undead decorations in this book would never have come to life.

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Notes for the Reader

Teaspoon measurements are assumed to be 5 ml and tablespoons are assumed to be 15 ml. Milk is assumed to be whole unless otherwise stated.

Pregnant and breastfeeding women are advised to avoid eating peanuts and peanut products. Ready-made ingredients used in the recipes in this book may contain nutssufferers from nut allergies should check any ingredients packaging before use.

Delicious Eye Poppers are the perfect treat to usher in your guests.

Zombies are on the march. It is too late to turn them back. Their animated corpses are shambling out of the graveyards and taking over every aspect of popular culture before our very eyes. Vying for world domination with another undead creature, the timeless and seductive vampire, the zombie is resurrecting itself and infecting armies of devoted followers in comics, video games, movies, and television, and even in mash-ups of the novels of Jane Austen, who is no doubt turning in her grave. So what are zombies, and why are they now emerging through the cracked frosting of that other irresistible craze, the cupcake?

Well, the flesh-eating undead can be traced back to ancient mythology and to the infamous voodoo traditions of Haiti, but the modern zombie is generally considered to have risen from