Minion Cupcakes

Minion Cupcakes

Ingredients
-Cake Mix with egg, oil and water the box calls for.
-Cupcake liners
-Frosting (either homemade or bought)
-Food Coloring (if you wish to have colored frosting)
-Twinkies (or any knock off brand)
-Candy Eyes - (From Michael's) (or altoids, or sweet tarts)
-One tube of black gel frosting
- Chocolate Sprinkles (for hair)

Directions
-Make cupcakes according to directions on the box.
-Let them cool to room temp.
-Make frosting with one stick of butter, 4 cups of powdered sugar and a TB of vanilla or
almond, OR use store bought. Color frosting if you wish..
-Remove Twinkies from the wrappers and cut in half. It doesn't matter if they are the
same length as there are different sizes of Minions.
-Use the tube of black gel to draw on the Minion face. (rounded side of Twinkie UP)
-Stick eye(s) on the black gel. If using the sweet tarts or altoids instead of candy eyes, put
a black dot of gel in the center of them for a pupil.
-Stick a few Jimmies Chocolate Sprinkles in rounded end of the Twinkie half for hair.
-Frost each cupcake and then poke a Minion on the top. Press down slightly to secure.
Use extra frosting for glue if needed.