Pictures
Cake Mix Ingredients
Pouring in Cake MIx
Adding Egg Whites
Adding Water
Adding Oil
Adding Red Food Coloring
Mixing
All Red and Pretty
Red Cake Batter
Cupcakes in Oven
Cupcakes out of Oven
Spider/UFO Bowl of Batter
Amara Licking the Spatula
Batter Faced Girl Cleaning the Mixer
Alien Ingedients
Frosted
Added the Chow Mein Noodles
Coloring the Frosting
Mixing Up the Frosting
Heated and Ready
Pretzels and Mini Marshmallows
Making the Eyes
Alien Eyes!
They are so Cute
Coated with Orange Frosting
About Half Way Done with the Coating
All Coated
They Have Eyes
Close Up
Neon Green Frosting
Frosted UFO
Decorated UFO
Aliens with UFO
Cake Mix
1 18.25 ounce box white cake mix
eggs whites
water
vegetable oil
red food coloring
UFO Accessories
neon green food coloring
1 16 ounce can vanilla frosting
M & M’s
Mini Marshmallows
Alien Accessories
1 1/2 16 ounce cans vanilla frosting
2 cups chow mein noodles
orange food coloring
24 whole pretzel sticks
24 whole mini marshmallows
24 whole red hots or mini M & M’s
chocolate spinkles
Preheat oven to 350. Make cake mix according to direction adding red food coloring (or whatever color you want to use).
For UFO: Grease and flour 1 1/2 quart glass mixing bowl. Pour half the batter into bowl and bake for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
Remove Cake form bowl and cool completely, top side down on wire rack.
Trim bottom of cake bowl to make one side flat. Color frosting neon green. Carefully frost the “UFO”. I stuck M & M’s and mini marshmallows on the side to make it look like lights.
For Aliens: Make 12 cupcakes with remaining batter. Cook and cool.
Spread the tops of the cupcakes with a small mound of vanilla frosting. Insert chow mein noodles into cupcakes to look like spikes. Place in the freezer for about 15 minutes to firm up.
Spoon 3 tablespoons of the vanilla frosting into a small resealable bag and set aside.
Tint the remaining frosting bright orange with the food coloring and spoon into a glass microwave-safe bowl. Microwave the frosting, stirring frequently, until it is the texture of slightly whipped cream.
Holding the liner of the slightly frozen cupcake, dip the top of the cupcake up to the liner in the melted frosting to coat. Use a spoon to add more frosting if necessary. Allow the excess frosting to drip off. Invert and transfer to a cookie sheet. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes.
Insert one end of a pretzel stick into the side of a mini marshmallow. Repeat with the remaining marshmallows and pretzel sticks. Snip a small corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting. Pipe a dot of frosting on one flat side of a marshmallow. Add a red hot or mini M & M’s as the pupil. Add a few chocolate jimmies on the top as eyelashes.
Insert two marshmallow eyes on top of a frosted cupcake about 1 in. apart. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes.
*NOTES- The UFO was supposed to be a spider but upon removing it from the bowl, some of the cake stuck to the bottom. It would no longer work as a spider so I went with UFO!
The Alien cupcake recipe came from here.