What can you do with the bags and bags of candy corn from the 50% off post Halloween bin? Make turkey cupcakes of course! They’re not a traditional Thanksgiving dessert, but they sure are adorable and easy enough for the kids to assemble during the festivities, while everyone else is watching football!
You’ll Need:
- Your favorite chocolate cupcake recipe, or box
- Yellow, orange or brown paper cupcake liners
- Chocolate frosting (homemade or store bought)
- Candy corn 8-10 pieces per cupcake
- Milk chocolate melting wafers or small mint cookies
- White chocolate chips
- Black decorator gel (black licorice was used in the photo)
- Ready to use chocolate decorator icing in a tube
- or a pastry bag with frosting
- Parchment paper (optional)
Directions:
- Bake and frost your cupcakes.
- Use the chocolate frosting tube to attach the white chocolate chip eyes to the bottom of the chocolate wafer or cookie and set them on a piece of parchment paper.
- Do NOT add the black gels dots on the eyes yet.
- Stand the chocolate wafer or the head and eyes, into the center of the cupcake.
- Gently press it in place.
- Add a small black gel dot on the center of the white chip.
- Insert 6-8 candy corns pointed down, behind the head and along the back edge of the cupcake to make the feathers.
- Add one candy corn for the beak and you are done.
What a great idea! thank you very much.
These are adorable and we will be adorning our Thanksgiving sweet table with them.
How awesome!!!
All my friends call me cupcake girl, ’cause I’m
always makin cupcakes for special things.
This will be an awesome cupcake to make for thanksgiving!!!
Thx
Great for my child’s class fall celebration.
This looks so cute! I’ll ask my mom if we can make some, I’m not for sure we have all the ingredients though.
They are so cute!
Ooooooh, how cute! You can also make these cute gobblers with carrot cake, spice cake, or pumpkin cake & then use food coloring in the frosting if you have a lot of non-chocolate lovers in your family (who knew I’d give life to one?). I just have to try & make one batch of these cute cupcakes & will have to bolster up my willpower not to eat them all as I have been craving cakes, roast beef sandwiches & radishes like mad!
The cupcakes look adorable.