AWESOME ALIEN CUPCAKES

Awesome Alien Cupcakes image

Have Halloween fun! Create sweet aliens and surprise your goblins.

Provided by Betty Crocker Kitchens

Categories Dessert

Time 1h55m

Yield 24

Number Of Ingredients 12

Ingredients

1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ 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
1 tube (0.68 oz) Betty Crocker™ black decorating gel
48 thin pretzel sticks
20 drops green food color
1 container Betty Crocker™ Whipped fluffy white frosting

Steps:

Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups.
Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 24 cupcakes. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, line 2 cookie sheets with waxed paper. In large bowl, place cereal.
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.
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.
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.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 300, Carbohydrate 47 g, Cholesterol 30 mg, Fat 2, Fiber 1 g, Protein 3 g, SaturatedFat 3 1/2 g, ServingSize 1 Serving, Sodium 250 mg, Sugar 29 g, TransFat 1 g