Thanksgiving Turkey Cupcakes
From ddougee 16 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 24
This is a FUN recipe to make for kids on Thanksgiving! Its not going to win a culinary award but I can assure you that it will be talked about for years to come! They are just too damn cute!
Ingredients
- 24 frosted cupcakes shopping list
- 24 Nutter butter cookies shopping list
- white frosting or decorator’s gel shopping list
- Red frosting or decorator’s gel shopping list
- Oreo cookies shopping list
- mini chocolate chips shopping list
- fruit leather, various flavors and colors shopping list
- toothpicks shopping list
How to make it
- To make each turkey, press the lower portion of a Nutter Butter cookie into a frosted cupcake for the bird’s head.
- Use tiny dabs of white frosting to stick on mini-chocolate chip eyes and red frosting in a tube to make the wattle.
- For each turkey’s tail, use a butter knife to cut out a 6 feather shapes (about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide) from fruit roll-ups or similar candy.
- Take an Oreo cookie and twist in half. Lay cookie half down with frosting side up. Lay 6 of the feather shapes in a fan pattern on the Oreo cookie with the tips of the feathers extending about a 1/2 inch beyond the edge of the cookie.
- Wedge the cookie down into the back of the cupcake to create the tail portion.
- Place in a clean cupcake tin to serve!
The Rating
Reviewed by 5 people-
They are so cute. I can hardly wait for Thanksgiving to roll around so that I can prepare them. Thank you for sharing and I love how they look!
lor
in Toronto loved it
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Those are absolutely ADORABLE!!! :)
bakermel
in Topeka loved it
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I will have to make these for my students next Thanksgiving! Too cute! Thanks
dmajor
in Slidell loved it
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