Turkey Cupcakes

By jenlin

Make this Thanksgiving more festive with these Turkey Cupcakes! It can be a fun activity with the kids, adding the cookies and candy to the top of your favorite cupcakes!

Ingredients

• 24 Nutter Butter cookies
• 3 strawberry Twizzlers
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 48 Wilton edible candy eyes
• 24 orange candy-coated sunflower seeds
• 24 baked jumbo chocolate cupcakes
• Canned chocolate frosting
• Candy corns (about 190)

Preparation

Step 1

Using a serrated knife, cut off about one-fourth from a short side of each Nutter Butter cookie.

With scissors, cut Twizzlers into pieces measuring about 1/2 x 1/3 inch.

In a small bowl, whisk confectioners' sugar and 4 teaspoons of water, creating a thick frosting.

Using sugar frosting, attach eyes, a candy-coated sunflower seed for the beak and a Twizzlers piece for the wattle to each Nutter Butter.

Spread cupcakes with chocolate frosting, stick a decorated Nutter Butter into each cupcake and add candy corns as tail feathers (7 or 8 per cupcake).