Thanksgiving Treat Ideas: Tom Turkey Cupcakes

Tom Turkey Cupcakes

Candy corn plumes and shortbread wings turn cupcakes into irresistible turkey sweets for Thanksgiving.

What you’ll need:

• Cupcake
• Chocolate frosting
• 3 oval shortbread cookies (we used Keebler Sandies Right Bites Shortbread)
• 6 to 10 candy corn pieces
• White icing
• Black decorators’ gel
• Red fruit leather (such as strawberry Fruit by the Foot)

How to make it:

1. Frost the cupcake, then press in a cookie head and 2 cookie wings.
2. Press in a row or two of candy corn tail feathers.
3. To make an eye, add a small dot of white icing to the head, then add a dot of black decorators’ gel for a pupil.
4. For a beak, cut the white tip from a piece of candy corn and press it in place.
5. To make the wattle, cut a 1-inch square of fruit leather. Roll it into a tube and stick it in place over the beak.

Thank you to Spoonful.com for allowing me to share this delicious and fun Thanksgiving treat idea from their website with you. Check out 25 more creative Thanksgiving dessert ideas.