3 Turkey Cupcakes for Thanksgiving

Each holiday, I find a clever food that I can make with my 3 year old daughter. Since Thanksgiving is around the corner, I thought it would be fun to create cupcakes in the shape of a turkey. We took features from a few cupcakes I saw online and added some of our own. These turkey cupcakes are the end result, however, you can easily simplify them based on your time constraints and what is in your pantry.

I used my daughter's left over Halloween candy corn for the beaks, tails and feet. The head is a donut hole and the cupcakes are pumpkin with maple cream cheese frosting. Pumpkin cupcakes wound up being a good choice. Not only are they delicious, but the cupcake itself is the same color as the donut hole and the ginger cookie tail (bought at my local grocery store). To simplify the cupcake, you can skip the frosting and the turkey will still be adorable. The cupcake recipe I used is so moist that it doesn't need frosting anyway.



Or if the ginger cookie tail is too much, you can omit it and just stick the candy corn in the cupcake upside down. Again, you can use frosting if you like.


The entire step by step process of assembling the turkey cupcakes, with photos, is here. Happy Thanksgiving!

*Katie Dillon writes La Jolla Mom, an award winning lifestyle site about food, travel, parenting, homekeeping, and local happenings. She lives in La Jolla with her husband and preschool aged daughter, and is a proud member of the Yahoo! Motherboard.