If you don't remember or don't know who Kodos and Kang are you fail at life. Kang and Kodos are 7 feet tall, continuously drooling, evil, tentacled, cycloptic aliens from the planet Rigel 7. More importantly, Kang and Kodos are Halloween staples. They show up in every Treehouse of Horror (i.e. Simpson's Halloween episode). Thus after 19 years of showing up at halloween I think they have earned status as a Halloween staple. As such, they deserve homage. And what better way than to pay homage to someone than to make a tray full of sugary, floury likenesses of them (Just ask L'il Wayne and Alec Balwdin's daughter).
So why not whip up a big ol batch of Kodos and Kang Cupcakes? Because you don't know how, you say? Pssht. Easy Peasy. Just look and listen.
First, here's a list of things you will need: ingredients for your favorite white or light colored cake; 1 can of vanilla, white chocolate or cream cheese frosting, approximately 8 full size green airheads, 1 tub of mini fruit slices, black decorator icing or squeezable chocolate candy filling.
Now you're ready to really do stuff. So put together the ingredients of your favourite white or light colored cake (no cake racism intended) or rock a cake mix. Before you start mixing it up add in 25 drops of neon green and 2 drops of neon blue food color. Mix it all up.
Pour into cupcake papers and bake according to recipe / package. When they're done pull 'em out and let them cool. When they're cool you're ready to start decorating. This is where it gets interesting. First, for optimum results turn on House of 1000 Corpses in the background.
Next, spoon out two or three big ol' clops of canned vanilla (or cream cheese) frosting. Add 15 drops of neon green and 1 drop of neon blue food coloring. Mix it all up. Slather it all over your cooled cupcakes. Then you're ready to start the hard work. Get out your airheads and cut them into little strips. If you're using full sized airheads you may want to cut them in half horizontally first.
Cutting airheads is a tricky endeavor. As you can see I am hardcore and used a razor blade (that's right, I keep 'em handy, so don't mess with me). If you have a good pair of kitchen shears that don't have e. coli all over them they'd probably work well, too. Your average steak knife, on the other hand, does not.
Once you get some airhead strips cut, it's time to turn them into tentacles. Curl them around and generally make them look tentacley. Remember tentacles curl and wrap around stuff. So, if you don't do anything with them Kodos and Kang will end up looking more like green spiders or Cthulhu with two off center mouths. You don't want that. Once you've got cool looking tentacles shaped out of the airhead strips insert four into each side of the cupcake. It's totally cool and perhaps even recommended to let some lay over others.
Now, Kodos and Kang need eyes because eyeless cyclopses are totally lame. Take one of those mini fruit slices, preferably in yellow or red and draw a pupil on it with your black icing or chocolate candy filling, like so:
Cool. Now you have an eye. Stick it in the middle and towards the front of your cupcake. And guess what, when you've done that, you have a complete Kodos or Kang.
Tada! Now that wasn't so hard, was it? Nope. And now you've got the coolest Halloween cupcakes of anyone you know. Guaranteed. Unless you're friends with this chick.
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