Turkey Cupcakes

"I saw these sweet little cupcakes in Family Fun magazine and just had to make them with my daughter. She had a blast helping me decorate them and they taste delicious as well. It's a really easy recipe that my daughter has asked that we make every year. Prep time is an estimate and cook time for baking the cupcakes is not included."
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
24
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ingredients

  • 24 cupcakes (baked from your favorite mix, any flavor)
  • 1 (16 ounce) can milk chocolate frosting
  • 72 oval shortbread cookies (like 1 box of Keebler Sandies Right bites shortbread)
  • 1 (11 ounce) bag candy corn
  • 1 (2/3 ounce) package decorator's black icing (store bought)
  • 1 (2/3 ounce) package decorator's white icing (store bought)
  • 1 (5 ounce) box of red fruit leather, like Fruit by the Foot (you won't use all of it)
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directions

  • Frost the cupcake, then press in a cookie "head", flat and vertically at the bottom center of the cupcake. Then press in two cookies, horizontally to the right and left of the cookie head to make the wings.
  • Along the top of the cupcake, above the cookie head, press in a row or two of candy corn to make the tail feathers.
  • Give the turkey one eye, by adding a small dot of white decorators to the cookie head, and then adding a small dot of black decorators icing over the white to finish the eye.
  • For the beak, cut the white tips off of 24 candy corns. Place it on the side of the cookie head.
  • To make the wattle, cut a 1 inch square of fruit leather. Roll it into a tube or cone and stick it in place over the beak.
  • Now you have a cute, delicious and completely edible cupcake turkey!

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Reviews

  1. These turned out super cute. My 6 and 9 year old did them all by themselves and were quite proud of themselves! We couldn't find the cookies the recipe called for so used something else instead and just improvised a bit.
     
  2. I'm just going through all of the pages that I've printed out from recipezaar and saving them in my cookbooks and came across this one. I can't believe I never commented on this! It was a big hit last Thanksgiving with all of the kids in our family! The adults thought they were adorable and I was a big hit, thanks to you! I have a photo of mine that I'll post here, too :)
     
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<p>Hello, My name is Monica and I am a 35 year old, happily married mom of 2. After working as a project manager for many years, I currently am a stay-at-home mom to our beautiful daughter Hannah who is 10 years old,&amp; our sweet son Liam who is 6. I love being home with them! I am a Navy wife of 19 years. It is an adventurous, fun, sometimes stressful life but we are proud to be a Navy family in service of our country. <br />Cooking is one of my passions. I could sit down and read recipes like I would a regular novel. I would say I am more of a recipe gatherer rather than a recipe orginator. I do tweak things a lot to suit my families taste, but other than that I rely on recipes for ideas and technique. I find most of my own recipes have been posted in some form or another here, but I look forward to having more to add in the future. <br />I am an avid baker and also love international foods. Being half Thai, I love Thai food and have gotten my family to learn to appreciate it as well.</p>
 
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