Out of this world amazing! - A close encounter of the cupcake kind. Neon green food coloring and vanilla frosting makes this design eerie yet simple! Use Duncan Hines French Vanilla cake mix to get started with your alien cupcakes.
- 24 Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe French Vanilla cupcakes baked in foil liners
- 2 cans Duncan Hines Creamy Home-Style Classic Vanilla frosting
- Neon green food coloring
- 12 marshmallows
- 24 plain doughnut holes
- 48 black candy coated chocolate covered sunflower seeds
- Black licorice laces, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 48 clear plastic drinking cups (8 ounces)
- Tint the vanilla frosting an appropriate alien green with the neon food coloring. Cut the marshmallows in half crosswise with clean scissors.
- Spread a thin layer of the green frosting on top of the cupcakes and attach the marshmallow half in the center, cut side down. Place the doughnut hole on top of the marshmallow using the green frosting to secure. Spread additional green frosting over the marshmallow and donut hole to fill gaps and smooth.
- Place assembled cupcakes in the freezer for 15 minutes or until slightly frozen.
- Working in batches, spoon 1 cup of the green frosting into a 1 cup glass measuring cup. Heat the green frosting in the microwave for 10 to 15 second intervals, stirring frequently, until frosting is the consistency of slightly whipped cream (do not overheat).
- Holding chilled cupcake by foil liner, dip one at a time into the green frosting just up to the foil liner. Allow excess frosting to drip off. Carefully invert cupcake and place on cookie sheet. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes. Reheat frosting in the microwave for several seconds, stirring well, when consistency becomes too thick. Add more green frosting and heat as necessary.
- Press the black candies onto the head area pointed end facing each other, to make the eyes. Make 2 holes in the top of each donut hole with a toothpick and insert a piece of licorice in each holes to make the antennae
- Carefully place each cupcake into plastic cup and top with another cup, inverted, to look like a space ship.
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Comment by: lazariaflyfoeva (1 discussion) on Mar 31, 2012 at 09:18 AM
able espenol
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mommie7553 (1 discussion) on Apr 2, 2011 at 08:01 PM
Has anyone baked, assembled & froze these aliens the night before? Would they be too frozen for the dipping part?
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lilyfarmer (1 discussion) on Feb 17, 2011 at 05:09 PM
I made these-they came out great. I thought the second layer of frosting was over-the-top, so I started out with neon green frosting for the (BTW rainbow) cupcake and "neck" joint. Then I just dipped the "head" in frosting. It definitely was better when the frosting was as thin as possible, but a pain to keep running it into the microwave (for the whole body). Even though I just did the head, they were still charming! Used pretzel sticks for antenna.
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kay22 (2 discussions) on Oct 25, 2010 at 03:43 PM
Cute for Halloween or any Space theme paty
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musiclvr1323 (3 discussions) on Jul 21, 2010 at 03:10 PM
These cupcakes are great, but make sure when you make the cupcakes you use 1 cup of buttermilk in place of the water and 4 eggs instead of 3. This makes them hold the doughnut hole much better!
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kmccusker (3 discussions) on May 8, 2010 at 01:45 PM
These are really kid-friendly! Kids love cupcakes even if they're "plain," so fun decorations just add to their excitement. We made these for Halloween one year, except that we decorated them as ghosts instead of aliens (just use a white icing without food coloring, and omit the licorice antennas, using black piped icing to make eyes and a squiggly mouth). I made them myself the first time, since I don't really care much for messes in the kitchen (OCD... it's a curse!), but the second time we made them, I invited my 5 and 7 year old boys to help decorate them - we all had tons of fun! We shared them with some of the kids in our neighborhood that came over to play one afternoon, and they were such a hit that we had kids knocking on our door for several more days asking if they could have another cupcake. I'll have to keep an eye out for the little plastic cups to store these in... I tried to improvise with a deep baking pan and aluminum foil to keep them covered without ruining them.
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princess1982 (1 discussion) on Apr 19, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Hi, I am from the UK.. We cannot get doughnut holes or chocolate covered sunflower seeds, any suggestions??!
Comment by: VelvetHeaven (no discussions) on Aug 5, 2010 at 08:04 PM
Perhaps you can make Rice Crispy treats and shape them in to balls to use in place of the donut holes. You can also try to just pipe the eyes onto the cupcake with black gel/icing.
Comment by: DoggieBoo (no discussions) on Aug 30, 2010 at 08:19 AM
Hi I live in the UK as well, I would suggest using M&M mini's for the eyes, which you can get at Asda, and they do sell donut 'middles' at Asda as well, they don't always have them however, so I would suggest going to the bakery and asking for them. I noticed they only had jam filled ones the last time I was in.
Comment by: misfitfarm (no discussions) on Jun 9, 2012 at 04:47 PM
I use Cake pops. I have a baby cake, cake pop maker but you can buy cake pop pans to bake round cake pops in the oven also. Baby cake machines and the cake pop pans are available on amazon.com or I have seen them at Bed Bath and Beyond and the pan at Target.
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englishsetterlover72 (1 discussion) on Feb 6, 2010 at 02:40 PM
i thought it was a really grate my family loved them to.
