A Thanksgiving treat the kids will gobble right up
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.
Take the Candy Corn Turkey Cupcakes Quiz for the opportunity to earn KinzCash!
Kit Bennett, the Editorial Director for Ganz Parent Club is a celebration and play expert who believes that sprinkles, pom-poms, pipe cleaners and wiggle eyes make the world a brighter place. She’s the founder of AmazingMoms.com and KidsParties 1-2-3 where she makes planning a party for kids as easy as 1,2,3! Her inspiration comes from her four children, two granddaughters and several nieces and nephews whom she loves BIG, BIG, BIG!
