Turkey Thanksgiving Cupcakes Recipe

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Cute, easy, and super sweet Turkey Thanksgiving Cupcakes. These are the perfect Thanksgiving day treat for both kids and grown-ups!

Cute, easy, and super sweet Turkey Thanksgiving Cupcakes. These are the perfect Thanksgiving day treat for both kids and grown-ups!

Here’s What You’ll Need to Make These Turkey Thanksgiving Cupcakes

  • Fudge-Dipped Mini Oreos
  • Candy Coated Sunflower Seeds
  • Candy Eyes
  • Chocolate Sprinkles
  • Candy Corn
  • Chocolate Cupcakes
  • Chocolate Frosting
Cute, easy, and super sweet Turkey Thanksgiving Cupcakes. These are the perfect Thanksgiving day treat for both kids and grown-ups!

Tips & Notes for This Recipe

  • I’ve seen these turkey faces made with lots of different cookies, so you really have a lot of flexibility. I like the mini-dipped Oreos, personally. But you could also use Mini Oreos (not dipped), Mini Nutter Butters, or even just a big blob of chocolate frosting.
  • Candy coated sunflower seeds are AWESOME for cake/cupcake/candy decorating. They carry them at Trader Joes year-round, but I always find the Fall-colored ones in TJ Maxx and even in Target seasonally.
  • If you didn’t hang on to any candy corn from Halloween, no worries! You can still find Fall-colored candy corn in stores for a few more weeks.
Cute, easy, and super sweet Turkey Thanksgiving Cupcakes. These are the perfect Thanksgiving day treat for both kids and grown-ups!
Cute, easy, and super sweet Turkey Thanksgiving Cupcakes. These are the perfect Thanksgiving day treat for both kids and grown-ups!
Cute, easy, and super sweet Turkey Thanksgiving Cupcakes. These are the perfect Thanksgiving day treat for both kids and grown-ups!

Turkey Thanksgiving Cupcakes

Yield: 18-24
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes

Cute, easy, and super sweet Turkey Thanksgiving Cupcakes. These are the perfect Thanksgiving day treat for both kids and grown-ups!

Ingredients

  • chocolate cupcakes, baked and cooled
  • chocolate frosting (homemade or store-bought)
  • chocolate sprinkles
  • Fudge-Dipped Mini Oreos
  • candy-coated sunflower seeds
  • candy eyes
  • candy corn

Instructions

  1. Frost the cupcakes with the chocolate frosting.
  2. Press each cupcake into the sprinkles.
  3. Use the chocolate frosting as the "glue" to stick the Oreos onto the cupcakes and the candy faces onto the Oreos.
  4. Stick the candy corn into the back of the cupcake to make tail feathers.
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