Easy Toy Story Alien Cupcakes
Finding fun food ideas for your kid’s birthday party is so much fun! And if you’re looking for Toy Story birthday party ideas, you’ve come to the right place! These adorable Toy Story alien cupcakes aren’t just cute. They’re also so simple to make! Dress up store-bought or boxed cupcakes with an easy icing decoration to make these fun Disney-inspired cupcakes for your party.
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I love finding easy recipes to use for my kid’s birthday parties! And it doesn’t get much easier than these Toy Story cupcakes! You can make your own cupcakes at home or redecorate store-bought cupcakes, which means you can whip up this quick dessert in just a few minutes.
With just four ingredients and a few minutes of your time, you can make some adorable cupcakes for your party! But even if you’re not putting together a birthday celebration, these fun cupcakes are sure to be a hit with your kids.
How to Make Toy Story Alien Cupcakes
These cupcakes are so easy to make that you only need four ingredients! To create your own alien cupcakes, you’ll need:
- Cupcakes. You’ll need cupcakes to decorate for this recipe. You can make your favorite cupcake recipe, use a boxed mix like I did, or simply purchase some cupcakes from the store and remove the icing on top.
- Icing. You’ll also need plain white icing for decorating. Again, you can make your favorite icing or use a jar of icing. The icing needs to be white so you can color it, so chocolate icing wouldn’t work for this decorating technique.
- Green food coloring. To make the icing green, you’ll need to add green food coloring. I used neon green gel food coloring to get the color green on my cupcakes.
- Candy eyes. To turn your green icing into alien faces, you’ll need candy eyes. I used three eyes for each cupcake, so you’ll need at least two packages of candy eyes or more depending on how many cupcakes you plan to decorate.
Cupcakes for a Toy Story Party
Once you have all your ingredients gathered, you can start decorating. But before you get started, you’ll need some cupcakes. If you’re using a boxed mix, prepare the cupcakes as directed on the package and let them cool completely. Add some green cupcake liners to the cupcakes before you start decorating.
Here’s a simple tip: If you don’t like the way the cupcake liners look after the cupcakes are done baking, try baking them with two liners in each cup. The inside liner will form around the cupcake and the outside liner will stay put. That way, the outside liner wil stay bright and cheerful without getting stuck to the cupcake.
When the cupcakes are cool, you can start decorating. Combine the icing with the green food coloring, adding a little bit at a time until you reach your desired shade of green. Then, scoop the icing into a piping bag and snip off the point.
Pipe the icing into a spiral on top of the cupcake, ending with a point on top to resemble the alien’s antennae. Continue piping swirls until all the cupcakes have been iced.
Carefully place three candy eyes in the center of the icing mound on each cupcake. Make sure your hands are dry as you place the eyes or they’ll start to smear. You can also use tweezers to put the eyes in place.
And that’s all you have to do! Continue adding eyes to each cupcake until they’re all decorated, then set them out on your favorite cupcake stand to display them for your Toy Story party.
Toy Story Alien Cupcakes
You just need four ingredients to make these adorable Toy Story alien cupcakes for your kid's birthday party!
Ingredients
- 1 box cake mix, prepared as 24 cupcakes
- 2 jars white icing
- Green food coloring
- 2 packages candy eyes
Instructions
- Combine the green food coloring with the white icing until your icing reaches the desired shade of green.
- Place the icing in a piping bag and snip the end off with a pair of scissors. Pipe the icing into a spiral on top of each cupcake.
- Carefully place three eyes in the center of the icing.
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Emily is a midwestern mom of two boys. She loves all things DIY — from home renovations to kids birthday party planning. Whether she’s making a new farmhouse craft for her home or helping her kids with a cool activity, you can bet she’s in the middle of some kind of DIY project (or three) right now!
What piping tip did you use?
I didn’t even use a tip for these! I just cut the tip off the piping bag and spiraled the icing on top.