Cupcake minions

My youngest child turned 5 years old on Thursday!! Hard to believe that much time has passed since I first held him in my arms. He asked for minions...so I obliged. I made mini "Minion" cupcakes.
I don't ever post directions to things I make. So please bear with me as I attempt to blog about my food.

I used a Betty Crocker yellow cake mix, home made chocolate frosting, Wilton's decorating icing, white smarties, and Hostess twinkies.

Chocolate frosting:

 3 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup of unsalted butter; softened (this is purely my taste)
2/3 cup Hershey cocoa powder
1/3 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla

Blend butter and cocoa on medium speed until well blended. Add milk and vanilla blend until smooth. Slowly add powdered sugar (I add about 1/4 cup at a time). If frosting is to thick, add a little more milk. If frosting is not thick enough add more powdered sugar until desired consistency.

Since these cupcakes were for my son's kindergarten class I used a Wilton mini cupcake pan. I made regular size cupcakes for home. I will show both.









Bake cupcakes and let cool.

While cupcakes are baking, sort your smarties. I ate so many smarties I got a tummy ache. Just don't eat the white ones. You want those for the eyes.














For your regular size cupcakes, half of a Twinkie will be perfect. For the mini cupcakes I used about 1/3 of the cupcake.

I used a dot of gel to hold the smarties in place on the twinkie (you can use frosting too). The gel is also used for the goggles.
















Putting on the eyes. You can do two eyes or just one eye! I did both.

Twinkie cut in half for the larger cupcakes.

 Showing the size difference.

Faces in different stages of "dress!"

I frosted the cupcake with a Wilton star tip #21.

The Mr. facebooking. (isn't he handsome??)

These were so fun to make!!!