Twinkie Minions

Halloween fun with those squishy, creamy, airy, extremely versatile carb bombs you know and love...

 

Twinkies!

 

 

Thank God Twinkies are back -- saved from near-death to live on in the minds, hearts, and cavities of kids everywhere!  (Although I was always a Tastykake girl -- Butterscotch Krimpets being my favorites -- with the peanut butter Kandykakes a close runner-up.)  Tastykake has even copied the Twinkie in a product called a "Dreamie" -- which looks exactly like a Twinkie.   

Anyway, where was I going with this?  Oh yeah.  Making minions from Twinkies, which is what Mindy and I did this weekend, with the boys.  Minions (in case you've just dropped in from another century) are the cute little torpedo-headed side-kicks in the 3D computer-animated comedic Despicable Me movies.

And what better time to make edible minions than at Halloween?

Here's what you need:
1.Twinkies, cut in half.  Each twinkie will make 2 minions.
2.Cupcakes, iced.  Here, you see one of our master chefs icing a cupcake.  (Be sure to save extra icing for "glue.")
3.Smarties (those little round colored candies that look like pharmaceuticals.)     4.Decorator icing in a tube.  We used dark brown.
5.Cake sprinkles.  Again, we used brown.
6.A couple of ninja chefs to assemble the minions.


Using a dab of icing, glue the Smartie eyes in place on the Twinkie. (Some minions only have one eye). Make a pupil in the center with a dot of icing from the tube.

With another dab of icing on top of the rounded part of the twinkie (the minion's head) stick on cake sprinkles for hair.

Squeezing the decorator icing out of the tube, make the rest of your minion's face.  Then stick the Twinkie in the middle of the iced cupcake.  Voila!