Awesome Alien Cupcakes
Have Halloween fun! Create sweet aliens and surprise your goblins.
1 box (18.25 oz) Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® devil's food
or yellow cake mix
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
6 cups Kix® cereal
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
4 cups miniature marshmallows
1/4 teaspoon orange neon gel or paste food color
(from 2.7-oz tube)
48 gummy peach ring candies (from three 4.25-oz bags)
48 candy-coated chocolate candies Black decorating gel
(from 0.68-oz tube)
48 thin pretzel sticks
20 drops green food color
1 container (12 ounce) Betty Crocker® Whipped fluffy
white frosting
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F (325 degrees F for dark or nonstick pans). Place
paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups.
2. Bake cake mix as directed on box for 24 cupcakes, using water, oil and eggs.
Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about
30 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, line 2 cookie sheets with waxed paper. In large bowl, place
cereal.
4. In 4-quart saucepan, melt butter over low heat. Add marshmallows; stir until
completely melted. Remove from heat. Stir in orange food color. Pour
marshmallow mixture over cereal in bowl, stirring until well coated.
5. For feet, place 2 gummy candies on cookie sheet. Spray inside of 1/4-cup
measuring cup with cooking spray. For body, fill measuring cup with warm cereal
mixture; place over feet, releasing cereal mixture and covering back half of
feet. Repeat with remaining gummy candies and cereal mixture to make 24 aliens.
Use 2 candy-coated chocolate candies for eyes and black decorating gel to make
centers of eyes. Insert 2 pretzels for antennae.
6. Stir green food color into frosting container; frost cupcakes with frosting.
Place 1 alien on top of each cupcake; press gently to secure. Store uncovered
at room temperature.
Make the Most of This Recipe How-To
Too many aliens? Bake and cool cupcakes as directed on package. Wrap 12
cupcakes tightly in food-safe plastic wrap and freeze for future use. Divide
remaining ingredient amounts in half, and make 12 alike. Enjoy.
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