Ingredients
Ingredients
- 12 Vanilla Cupcakes
- Neon Green Food Coloring
- Green Apple Sour Belts
- Black Decorator Gel Icing
- White Frosting, store-bought or favorite recipe
- Mentos Mint Candies
- Green Apple Sour Straws, cut into 2″ pieces
Equipment
Equipment
- Kitchen shears
- Cupcake pan
- Cupcake liners
Instructions
Instructions
- 1
First, mix up a batch of alien green icing by adding few drops of neon green food coloring to your favorite white icing.
- 2
Prepare your aliens’ ears. Cut ears, shaped like teardrops, from green apple belts. A pair of kitchen shears works well. You will need 2 ears for each cupcake, a total of 24.
- 3
Frost cupcakes and insert a 2″ sour straw antenna. Press your ears into the sides of the cupcake.
- 4
Line up three mint-flavored, chewable candies as eyes, and dot with black gel icing for pupils.
- 5
Give your aliens an awed expression by drawing on a circle for a mouth with black gel icing
