Ingredients
Ingredients
- cupcakes, any from your favorite recipe
- neon green food coloring
- green apple sour belts
- black decorator gel icing
- white frosting, store-bought or favorite recipe
- 36 mentos mint candies
- green apple sour straws, cut into 2″ pieces
Equipment
Equipment
- kitchen shears or a small leaf shaped fondant cutter
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, or use a small leaf shaped fondant cutter. You will need 2 ears for each cupcake.
- 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
